Talk of the Town October 22, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good Wednesday morning.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It is nine oh six in the University City right now,
clouds and forty eight degrees Metro Newszaki Weather says, got
a steady dose of clouds in the pipeline today. Expect
a high temperature of fifty two degrees. Welcome to Talk
of the Town. I'm Mike Knowlton. You'll find me out
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now listen, let's see Ethan Collins is our producer today.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
He's the man behind the controls.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
You'll be able to get him at eight hundred seven
six five eight two five five and the text line,
of course is available for you that number three oh
four Talk three oh four. Coming up on the program today,
we'll speak to US Senator Shelley Moore Capito coming up
at nine p fifteen will of course be talking about

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the government shut down, the peace deal between Hamas and Israel,
and of course all other things Washington DC related.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
We'll do that at nine point fifteen nine point thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Have got the Montaguelia County Health Officer, doctor Brian Huggins
coming in. We're gonna be talking about the community Health
Needs Assessment. How you can participate and how important it
is to quality of care they're able to offer to
the community. And don't forget today's a Wanted Wednesday. That
means we've got a full slate of featured felons that

(01:26):
Sheriff Todd Forbes is gonna tell us about. We'll do
that just about nine forty or their abouts.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
One thing that did want to address, Sheriff Forbes will
also be talking yet again about school bus safety.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
This week is a school bus safety week.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
So I'm going to give Sheriff Forbes an opportunity to
address that. Let's take a look at a couple of
headlines and we'll get the program started. Suspect to fled
police during a traffic stop in Harrison County is dead.
Troopers tried to pull him over on a road off
at route, but he fled, leading to a high speed pursuit.
That chase ended in Mountclair when the suspect got out

(02:07):
of the vehicle armed with a gun, refused orders and
made some threatening gestures that made officers reveal threatened. They
then engaged that suspect and he was fatally shot at
the scene. After five years of service, Westover Chief of
Police Joe Adams has announced his retirement. Adams came to

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the city after twenty five years with the state police
in the West Virginia Supreme Court. When Adams arrived five
years ago, a lot of you might remember this. He
was sworn in while the town was embroiled in the
civil rights lawsuits. A divided city council at one point
even had to get in between let's see Councilman Ralph

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Mullins and Mayor I cannot believe I can't remember his name,
but I can't the former mayor of West O he
had to step in the middle of that got into
those lawsuits, the civil rights lawsuits. But really, due to
his leadership, cities on a new track and I guess

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looking for a new police chief now it looks like
Police Chief Joe Adams has strongly recommended a deputy Chief,
Scott carl Two. Council police are investigating a crash involving
a Mountain Lion bus this morning at the intersection of
High and Pleasant Streets.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Injuries were reported on the bus, but none are believed
to be serious. No other information is available at this time.
Morgantown City Council is talking about their legislative priorities. Goal
number one is road repairs and snow removal, normally the
responsibility of the DOH, which has had some staffing issues

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in the past. Now the second is more clarity on
recently passed legislation specifically related to aligning local elections with
the state. Now, council members would like to meet again
with the local state delegation before that's the twenty twenty
six legislative session happens.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
It is.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Let's see Wednesday of WVU Homecoming week and among all
the activities, the WVU Spirit Truck Stop resumes today.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
They'll be at the Mountain Layer.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I believe that would get started next hour from ten
to two. Let me check that for you real quick,
and yes, that appears to be correct. Looks like from
ten to two they'll be at the Mountain Layer and
again they'll have some swag to pass out, and of
course they would appreciate it if you might think of

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them and offer all stuffed animal or maybe a blanket
that would go to WVU Medicine Children's Hospital. And then
into round things up. The Morrissey administrations touting some information
from Standard and Pores which says that West Virginia's credit

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worthiness has improved the state's outlook and the latest S
and P released went from stable to positive. States DOUBA
minus rating on general obligation debt was affirmed.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
The Governor's office called.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
It positive news and an affirmation of the administration's approach
to budgeting and management of the state's long term debt.
Come back, we'll get things started with US Senator Shelley
Moore Capital. We'll be talking about the government shutdown, which
is now in day twenty two, and we'll talk about
the Himas Israel peace agreement as well. If you've got

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something you'd like for me to ask, text line three
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thirteen cloud and forty eight the University City. We'll be
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Speaker 1 (06:13):
Listen. I'm a West Virginian through it.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
Talk of the Town.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Good Wednesday morning.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
It is nine seventeen plenty of clouds, forty seven degrees
in the University City.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
On the phone, we.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Have a US Senator Shelley Moore Capital with us and
good morning, Senator, how are you good?

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Good morning. It's a beautiful day here in Washington. I
hope it is in Morgantown.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Not too bad.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Few clouds and certainly fall like temperatures, and I think
everybody's ready for a dose of fall.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
I think so, I think so.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, Well, you've called it the Misery March, and you know,
others have called it the politics of pain. But the
government shut down is now into its third week, right,
what's the talk in Washington, DC?

Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know, it's twenty one days now, and it is
just miserable here and around the country. I mean, people
are suffering. There are people that aren't getting paychecks. We're
concerned about, you know, air traffic controllers and our military
and a coast guard, and I mean I could go
on and on. And the simple answer here is to

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just reopen the government. I mean, we have voted eleven
times to simply reopen the government until and put it
into a continuing resolution, which means we would keep spending
at current levels until November the twenty first, and then
to begin to negotiate some of the issues that the
Democrats are bringing up and honestly, it's been so politicized
to the point where you know, senators humor is talking

(08:00):
about how great this is for them, and honestly, it's
really not good for anybody. It's not good for the country.
It's not good for a lot of individual families or
people that rely on services for the federal government. It's
not good for the Senate because we can't conduct a
lot of other business at the same time. So it
basically is we're being held hostage here for political points.

(08:25):
When I think if we open it, we can talk
about the policy points that are being brought up, particularly
around healthcare.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
We've got us Senator Shelley Moore capital with us, and
now Senator if you could help us understand that it
seems like there are two major issues here. The Continuing
Resolution includes the extension of subsidies for Obamacare. Where does
that fit into this? And isn't there a new CR

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being proposed?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, there are new ideas on the table always, and
there are again today this morning for longer crs or
crs with an agreement. Look, Senator Thune, who is the
leader of the Senate, the Republican leader who really controls
the floor basically said reopen the government and we will
have a vote on healthcare extending the healthcare premium support.

(09:20):
So if I could just make a quick distinction, I
want to get too far in the weeds on the
healthcare issue because it is very complicated. But during COVID,
with all Democrat votes no, but no Republicans voted for this,
they opened up and made extended premium credits, so that
some people that are making one hundred thousand dollars or

(09:42):
even more than that, are paying nothing for their healthcare.
They're paying no premiums and no deductibles because of these
enhanced premium and we think, let's you know, this is
where you hear illegals are having access to it and others.
Let's look at reforms here to make sure that this
benefit is going to the barber, the beautician, or who

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small business owner who really can't get insurance and can't
afford it without some kind of premium support. Premium support's
been in Amacare was passed, and the skyrocketing costs of
healthcare is just making these premiums go up and up.
So basically Obamacare is failing. But at the same time
they're asking for one point four trillion dollars, and you know,

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I'm just not going to do that at this point.
And so I think open up the government and let's
discuss who should get these premiums and how much and
what should be extended here.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
If you were to provide us a forecast for when
the government would reopen, you know, I heard once at
one time it was, well, you know what that payday,
if we missed that payday, that'll be an incentive for
them to reopen the government, right. You know, then we heard, well, no,
maybe they wanted to hold it closed in order to
have the no Kings rally.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well we've done that, and then.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
You know, the next thing you hear is that, you know,
this could be one of the longest government, if not
the longest government shut down in the history of the country.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Well, that's so unfortunate because it's so unfair to so
many people. There's a very simple solution here, and as
I've said three times already, I think, just vote to
open the government and we'll proceed on with these with
appropriations and other business, including healthcare debate. If I had

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to predict now, they're saying the date is November the first,
That is when the premiums come out from the insurance
companies that tell you how much you're going to have
to pay, and that could be the next benchmark time.
It could break before then. I certainly hope that it does.
There are a lot of people talking. I'm talking, you know,

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to other Democrats and Republicans to try to find a
way out of this, so that you know, there are
the votes are in line. So I guess November the
first now is the date that I'm hearing. But then
I heard Thanksgiving too, And if we go that long,
people will have missed not just one paycheck, but three
and four paychecks. And and that's We are going to

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have a vote this week on Thursday to pay a
lot of the employees that are working now during the shutdown,
and I hope that passes so we can at least
pay some of our federal employees like TSA, Air Traffic Control,
our military others like that that are required to be
on the job and are not getting paid.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Last thing on.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
The shutdown that I've got for you, Senator, is what's
different this time around for Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
You know, apparently he has his far left is really
knocking at his door. I mean, he has AOC in
New York and she is very far left, and they
are they were upset at Chuck Schumer for cutting a deal,
which is what the leaders do. You have to cut
deals in March, and he cut a deal in March,
and he and they are just holding his feet to

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the fire. So I think he feels political footsteps are
knocking at his door and so he's going to hold
it as long as he possibly can. So that's why
I say this is in the political arena and in
some cases in the political arena of Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
US Senator Shelley Moore.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Capital was with us and if we could shift gears
talk a little bit about the peace deal between Hamas
and Israel. And you know, the minute that I heard
this peace deal, the first thing that occurred to me
or that I thought, was that the people that you're
going to be dealing with over hostages likely going to
be a completely different group of people that you're going

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to be dealing with when it comes to disarming that militia.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
And it appears that that would be the case.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well, I think that Hamas obviously is a terrorist organization.
The attack on October seventh on Israel that killed over
a thousand people at a muse thick festival. Many of
them were was so brutal, and some of the accounts
I can't even have to look away from because they're
so terrorist and brutal and disgusting. And so I think,

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you know, they they began this, and Israel went back
with the full force of the Israeli military with our
support and other supports around the country, and so to
weed out that last terrorist. I think what last Hamas member.
I think what has been the realization is get our
hostages back, which they have. They don't have all the

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ones that have passed away, but they do have all
the live hostages back. So that's a benchmark I think
where these peace talks are right now. So that's what's
different here. I think that Israel has a lot of
what they want, and now I think the gosen people
that are not that are being held hostage by Hamas.
There are still pockets of Hamas that want to keep fighting,

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but gozens want to go home. They want food, they
want shelter, they want to be able to live in
peace with their families like everybody else. And I think
that's what the peace process is meant to do so.
I think when you saw those rockets fired into into
Israel several days ago, my immediate thought was, Oh, the

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whole thing's going to break down, and you saw it didn't.
As the Vice President's over there right now, there's just
so much hope. Somebody sat with me. Actually, I was
talking to the Prime Minister of Australia. We were talking
about this yesterday and he said, for the first time,
I feel like we have real hope for peace there,
and so I'm going to hold on to that very
major nugget in my mind. Even if we see small

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incursions here and there that might think the whole thing's
falling apart. I think the will is there to hold
this thing together.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
You know, I couldn't agree with you more. I hold
out hope as well.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Right however, I think you know we'd be well, let's
be realistic. Ceasefires are difficult propositions. Ceasefire between the Koreas
you know that broke down and took more than a
year eighteen months to take effect.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Cease fire agreements.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
And other conflicts, they're just not that simple, and they
do break down, and they do require renegotiations. But the
fact is is that when you take a look at
the Middle East, look at the efforts that Jimmy Carter made,
and look where it got.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
The President of Egypt, Don morrisadat right.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
Well, you're right, we do have to be realistic. And
I think also for me and I think for most
people looking at this situation, I don't think we really
grasp how very complicated this issue is. With the Arab States,
with Saudi Arabia and Cutter and Jordan, and then you
have Turkey's involvement and other Roague nation like Iran. I mean,

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it's hard to put all the players on the table
to figure out how this can really hold. Because what
unifies a lot of these folks like Iran and and
Hamas and Hesballa is a hate for Israel. They want
to wipe it off the face of the planet. They're
very clear with that. And so I think it will
be tenuous at best. But it's the best that we've

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been in a long time. And I think that there
is a global acceptance. You saw President Trump and Cairo
with a lot of world leaders. I mean, he's moved
the ball forward much much farther than it's been probably
since Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, I would certainly agree with you. And with that
being said, we're running close on time. How clear is
President Trump's judgment in using economics as the carrot to
bring peace to that region, because no one would ever
argue that's got to be one of the most beautiful
parts of the world if it were peaceful.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
Right.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Well, I think you know, President Trump put into into
affect the Abraham Accords, which was to go for peaceful
solutions in that area. That's I think still the goal here,
and that would bring economic relief to a lot of areas.
But you know, in a lot of ways, I feel,

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you know, they have to solve their own problems too.
We can be the leader here, but these are generational
conflicts that really have to be solved by the major
players in that region.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
US Senator Shelley Moore, Capital Senator, thank you so much
for your time today.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Really do appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
Well, I hope the next time we speak, and I
hope it's soon the government is open.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, I'm going to hold you to that and I
and with you, I hope for the same. All right,
Thank you, Yes, ma'am, you take care and have a
great day. US Senator Shelley Moore Capital in Washington, d C.
Working amidst a government shut down, trying to reach some
sort of an agreement, and of course the Senator the

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fourth highest ranking Republican in Washington, d C under this administration.
When we come back, we're going to spend a few
minutes with the Montagelia County Health Officer, doctor Brian Huggins.
We're going to talk with doctor Huggins about the community
Health Needs Assessment that is online right now and available

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for you to take, and we're going to talk about
why it's important for you to take it, how it
can maybe determine the future of healthcare provided by the
Health Department coming in the coming decades.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
We'll do that next.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Right now, clouds in forty eight degrees and time to
find out what is happening across the great state of
West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
And to do that, we'll head to the Metro.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
News Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven
to sixty five eight two five five. This is the

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Talk the Town.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Good morning, it is Wednesday, nine thirty five, clouds and
forty eight degrees in the University City in studio. We've
got mont County Health Officer, doctor Brian Huggins with us
and good morning, doctor, how are you?

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Good morning?

Speaker 6 (20:17):
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Hey, I'm doing good. Thank you very much. Now let's
see doctor. The Community Health Assessment or the Community Health
Needs Assessment is online. That is a survey that is
available to county residents to take. Where is that at?
Why is it important for folks to do that?

Speaker 6 (20:38):
So it's available on our website, It's available on all
of our social media. Monte Gaily County Health Department. It's
easy to google us and you're going to find us.
The reason it's important is everybody we talk two cares
about their health. Right We're becoming more concerned about what
you're putting in your body from everything from food. Like

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you can't not hear about health topics in the news.
And unfortunately, West Virginia tends to be very low in
the ranking scales and public health. We're fiftieth in health
in general. I think we're close to the bottom forty seven,
forty eighth and we want to make a difference. But
how do you do that? How do you know exactly

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what people need? And so we can look at the
statistics all day long. You can get cardiovascularities OBEs rate.
You know that everybody knows that, sure, but what we
don't know is what do people actually want. We have
a survey that we do about every three years, and
we've actually made some changes to it. We've made it
three minutes. So I want to stress two things about

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the survey. It's three minutes roughly, and it's anonymous, so
nobody's gonna track you, nobody's gonna get your nobody's gonna
call you after you take it, and it should only
take a few minutes of your time. And what that's
going to tell us is it's going to tell us
one what things have impacted you, what's important to you?

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And two, what do you want to see happen? Because
the thing that's most important in public health, I've been
here talking to you, I've been talking on you know,
the other radio shows about how our funding is going down, right,
and there's a competition for funding across the United States
for everything, and so we don't want to waste money.
We don't want to waste resources in areas where people

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don't really need it. Either they don't need it because
they don't need it, or they don't need it because
realistically they're not willing to move in that direction.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Right.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
A perfect example that I give people is they put
fresh food out into the Dollar generals because they said,
we've got these food deserts. All you can get is
frozen food whatever. And they put fresh food out, and
then what happened to that fresh food? They threw it
away because people don't know how to cook with it.
People don't know what to do with fresh food. We
don't know how to cook anymore. Like you know, when

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I went to school, you know, I went to school
and date myself. But you know, like I graduated high
school in ninety five and boys didn't take home met class.
That was not something that you do. That is not
a you know, traditional like male class to take. And
I have a whole generation of my friends. I have
no idea how to cook. I've learned to cook, and
but I didn't grow up doing that. And that's a

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fundamental skill, right, I mean, that's like one of those
fundamental skills. And so but when you don't know that,
you learn I got frozen chicken fingers, I got pizza.
It's fast, it's easy, right, I mean yeah, right, I
mean yeah, and sometimes it's even cheaper I mean, you
buy a head of cauliflower now and it's shocking. It's like,
you know, on sale it's three dollars, so any good.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
But then you put people in that conundrum, what do
I do with this head of cauliflower once I.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Have it right? Right?

Speaker 6 (23:45):
And most people grow up or you got steamed vegetables
at the restaurant and they're horrible. Right, I grew up
thinking anything green was bad and you just have to
know how to season it. Like if you know how
to season food. I make fresh green beans for people
or something like that, they'll be like, I didn't know
green beans like this.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
It's like, yeah, okay, Well, next week we're going to
start the Doctor Brian Huggan's cooking show. But seriously, though, Brian,
on the way out, tell us about delta eight, why
we need to know about it and what it is.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yep, So, delta eight is another form of THC. So
most people are familiar with the words TC and CBD, right,
those are the two main chemicals that you find in marijuana.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
TC is the psychoactive, CBD.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
Is the more relaxant. It doesn't typically have the same
psychoactive components. A lot of states have legalized CBD, not THC, etcetera, etcetera. Well,
there's two forms of TG that are in the marijuana
plant that are our most active. There's delta nine, which
is in high quantities, and then there's delta eight, which

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is in very very very very low quantities connected to CBD.
Why you're hearing about it in the news is because
and in hemp plants. So I also want to talk
a little bit, just briefly about hemp plants in marijuana.
And it's the same plant. It's just the difference is
marijuana plants have been specifically grown and they have higher
levels of teach. See where hemp plants it's the same plant,

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they just by nature a pint less than point three percent.
So that's where in twenty eighteen they legalized hemp for
the use in a lot of products that didn't now
fall under the restrictions that the stronger marijuana plant would. Okay,
which your same plant just different, you know. So what
people have been able to do is that the delta

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eight in large quantities actually has some psychoactive property. It's
not as much as Delta nine and delta eight. In
order to do that, you have to concentrate it, and
you can do that one of two ways. You can
concentrate it with like CBD kind of of products and
what not, using chemicals from the marijuana plant, but you

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can also do it from the hemp plant. And where
you're seeing an issue with this in West Virginia, and
you've probably maybe seen articles about the marijuana farmers who
are legally allowed to grow in West Virginia, is that
hemp farmers.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
The people have figured out how to take.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Hemp and the little bit of CBD from hemp, concentrate
that to get a Delta eight product. And because it's
derived from hemp, it's not technically illegal. It's not a
synthetic So when people hear of spice and other things
like that, those are actually synthetic THHD. They're not coming
from a natural plant. If something comes naturally from the
hemp plant, based on the law in twenty eighteen, that's

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legal unless a state makes it illegal. West Virginia has
not done that yet, so you can actually legally buy
these Delta eight products, and they do carry psychoactive properties.
The danger of that is that we haven't studied Delta
eight hardly at all, and the chemicals that are used
to make it is not really studied and the FDA
doesn't control these, so there's no known whether they're harmful

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or not. Yet they're being commercially distributed across the state.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
And then in the production the chemicals that are used,
you know, they have to be disposed of or they
have a life correct. Yeah, and that as well is
not regulated.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
It's the chemicals that they used to make It might
be those might actually be regulated because of how they're used,
but once they're combined into the product, then it's not
the same anymore. So like when they're in a bottle,
you know, say you're using hydrochloric acid. Not that that's
a product you would use for this, right, that's very
regulated product, but once you've now used it into something

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that that kind of like unless there's a significant amount
of that product that they know causes harm. Problem is
nobody's really taken these products, put them under a microscope
and you know, and really broken down what exactly is
inside them.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Okay, doctor Brian Huggins, the mont County Health Officer. Doctor,
really do appreciate your time.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
Thank you, and I really everybody out there please go
on and take our survey. We'd really really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay, good deal.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Coming up next, we've got Montgelia County Sheriff Todd Forbes.
It's onaned Wednesday, and we're also going to talk school
bus safety. It's coming up next on Talk of the Town.
AM fourteen forty f M one oh four point five WAJR.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
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Speaker 2 (28:45):
Overcast and forty eight in the University City, West Virginia.
Five one one reports an incident free interstate system at
this hour. On the phone, we've got Montgelia County Sheriff
Todd Forbes.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Sheriff, Good morning, sir, how are you you?

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Good morning, Mike. I was doing really well until you
just jinxed us by staying in their states were open
without any accident.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, I hope it wasn't an instantaneous dose.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Of bad luck.

Speaker 5 (29:13):
Well I think we'll be okay.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Okay, good, all right, Well, it is a wanted Wednesday Sheriff. So,
who are the featured felons that we're searching for.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, this morning, we're looking for Thomas Logan lobb for
possession of controlled substance, the last second events and the force,
failure to failure to appear. You'll let us that on
most of them also Ashley Shackleford, destruction of property, public intoxication,
a legal possession of alcohol, the messy battery and of

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course failure to appear. Arnold Dwayne Schmoot conspiracy, committed failony,
violation of protection protective water. And that's all for I'm
sorry Alan Ray Watson for battery and failure to appear
in case you were a while for shoplifting, third events
and failure to appear. And as always, you know, if

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you have any information, we would love to have that.
We've been able to capture twenty seven individuals since we
started doing this, and that is largely a part of
the tips that we get from the community, which we
very much appreciate.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
And you can take a look at all of these
felons and take a look at their pictures at Montaguelia
Sheriff dot gov. And of course the sheriff would tell
you that at no time should you consider approaching any
of these people yourself. If you know them or if
you know where they live, call the sheriff, let them
do the work.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's what they get paid for.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
That's right, That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Okay, Now, Sheriff, it is school Bus Safety Week, and
I think here in mon County we got off kind
of to a rough start at two or three citations
involving school buses.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Yeah, we sure did. And it seems like every year
we get a couple of people that are to make
that mistake. We put so much emphasis on this at
the beginning of school. We feel like by now, by
the time they were to this point, we don't have
to do much. Well. We think we have things pretty
well under control. We're still monitoring those bus routes a lot,

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but we feel like, you know, we did the work
up front and now it's kind of knock on wood
Easy Street for that.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Sure. You know.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
One of the things that I just wanted to bring
up is, and you know, you're the guy that works
the road. You could answer this question better than me
making a speculation. But I would guess that the main
reason that people get into a jam with a school
bus is because they're in a hurry. Maybe they're going
to work, maybe they're coming home from work. It's important

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for those people who are in a hurry to understand
that the first offense, you can lose your driver's license
for up to sixty days. That means catching a lot
of rides. In fact, if you just take work for example,
that would be one hundred and twenty rides you would
need over that sixty day period. And that's just to
get to and from work. That's not having fun or

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going anywhere that you want to go.

Speaker 5 (32:10):
Yeah, there's certainly no upside to pass in the school
bise other than you may very well get away with
it until you get caught and then and you're going
to not be late to work that day. I think
most people would just rather be late to work that
day than have to deal with all the uber rides
and all the things that go with that. There's also
fees and fines that go with that. Of course, you know,

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to get your license back you have to pay a
fee in a fine, so financially it's bad as well.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, and I guess I just throw in there the
fact that it would certainly not bode well for insurance,
so that the cost is not just getting your license back,
that costs can maybe ripple into your future, so to speak.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Absolutely right, Yeah, there's not Again, there's no other side
of this. Nothing good about it. But these buses all
have video cameras and you know everything. It's just it's
not impossible to do it.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm glad you brought that up.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
I'm glad you brought that up because if you think
you're gonna get away, you might want to think again,
because those cameras really cover about every corner of the bus,
don't they.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
They sure do, and on the bus and all around
the bus. And unfortunately, too is where this has happened.
We've got other people call in with license plates, numbers
and everything because other people in the community see what happened.
They don't want to see that. So yeah, I think
we're in a good spot here in Montague County.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, good deal, Sheriff Todd Forbes. Sheriff really do appreciate
your time, sir.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yes, sir, thank you. Have a good day.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
You bet you take care of yourself, Sheriff Todd Forbes.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Of course you can take a look at everything that
we talked about at Montaguelia Sheriff dot gov. Coming up
at the top of the hour, Mond County Commission will
be gathering in for their regular meeting and then the
Commissioners also have a work session set up for later today.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
One item that.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Got my attention on their regular meeting agenda is to consider,
let's see the engagement an engagement letter with Steptoe and
Johnson to represent the County Commission in the west Ridge bankruptcy.
Of course, some of the things happening with west Ridge,
some of the things they have their hands into would

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be the Exit one p. Fifty five. I believe that
they're a thirteen million dollar partner in that particular project.
And then I believe that they're about a three million
dollar partner in the water and sewer extensions under I
seventy nine into the west that extension into Myland Park

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to allow for more expansion there. So just a couple
of things to watch for, and of course they'll be
talking about west Ridge during their afternoon work session as well.
Also in their work session, it looks like they'll be
talking with the folks at Myland Park and the Morgantown
Area Partnership. Mont County Commission gavels in at ten o'clock

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this morning, and of course those meetings open to the
public in the Mont County Courthouse or available on YouTube
at the Mont County Commission page. You can check that
out there when we come back, wrap things up and
hand off to David TJ Metro News talk line right now,
Clouds and forty eight degrees on Talk of the Town

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Speaker 3 (35:55):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
Talk of the Town.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well good Wednesday morning.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
It is homecoming week on the WVU campus here in
the city of Morgantown and the Spirit Truck Stop.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
In just about ninety seconds.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
They'll be setting up shop at the Mountain Lair passing
out some swag in preparation for the homecoming game with
TCU coming up Saturday. That is a six pm kickoff
for their return to Mylin Pushcar Stadium. We certainly wish
the Gold and Blue the best of luck in this
upcoming matchup.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
With Texas Christian.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
And also just an update tomorrow's program, we're going to
spend a few minutes with Greg Clutter from the Chestnut
Mountain Ranch. We're going to be talking about his presentation
that he presented to state lawmakers during recent interim meetings
earlier this month, and we're also going to get a
readout from Greg about I guess his take on the

(36:58):
state of maybe how the foster care system is operating
in the state right now, and how maybe that new
system Care portal is augmenting those operations and helping in
the community. And just a quick response to the Texter,
Why in the world have US Senator Shelley Moore Capito

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on the program this morning? Well, the reason is is
because the government is shut down.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
We want to know why, we want to.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Know what's being negotiated, and we'd like to know above
all when the government will reopen that to the Texter.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Metro Neews talk Line. Next