American scholar Warren Bennis once said, “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
True leaders are not only successful in growing their respective fields and achieving personal goals but in growing the successes of others. As West Virginia continues to forge a path toward prosperity, leaders across the state are making a discernable difference.
Education plays a role in every element of daily life. It is important for small business owners and entrepreneurs, scientists and doctors, farmers and teachers. It impacts economy, livelihood and progress.
Some could see the $381 million revenue shortfall coming. Others were blindsided by it, recognizing a problem only after the regular legislative session ended without a budget bill. A steady flow of complaints with an undercurrent of urgency became the conversational norm among outraged citizens. If the budget bill wasn’t passed in time, state government would face a shutdown.
From 2000-2013, 160 active shooter situations occurred in the U.S., killing 486 individuals and wounding 557 others. An active shooter is defined as an individual who is actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a public place, regardless of the number of individuals wounded or killed. Through its Run. Hide. Fight. program, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established a nationwide active shooter prevention effort by educating law enforcement departments and citizens on how to respond in these crises.