By Sudhakar Jamkhandi, Ph.D We’re all familiar with the phrase “going global.” Some of us even engage in this practice. How many of us, though, are familiar with the concept of “building the capacities of emerging democracies and market economies?” Surely this is the responsibility of new democracies or new market economies themselves, right? And…
By April Plank Earlier this year, I called Bob Welty, the president of Fifth Third Bank West Virginia, to ask if he would meet me for an early lunch. After more than an hour of talking about our professional and personal backgrounds, he asked, “What was the purpose of this meeting? Is there something I…
By Victoria Yeager With his fabled 1/16 Cherokee Indian heritage and 20/7 eyesight, the six-year-old boy stealthily moved among the trees and then hid as he spied a gray squirrel gathering acorns, unaware of its predator. The boy carefully aimed with precision. Tonight their family would have protein for dinner. It was 1929. Fifteen years…
By Kensie Westerfield Tom Jones is one of the lucky ones—not only because he has had a successful career but because he is a West Virginia native who loves his home state and has been blessed to have been able to work here his entire career. He has lived and worked all across the state…
By Charles Shumaker It didn’t take long after the announcement of Jamie Oliver’s role in a new reality television show—based in Huntington and focused on the unhealthy lifestyles of residents—before the skeptics came out. How would Huntington be portrayed? Why would the Jewel City want to be recognized on national television as an unhealthy place…
By Kyria Henry “This program has quite literally saved my son’s life,” says USMC Sgt. Paul Martin’s mother, Marion Lattimore. In April 2009, we met Sgt. Paul Martin. During the hour-long application interview for paws4vets, we learned that he had been at the VA hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia for three months. He had not…