September 26, 2025 • 36 mins
Dr. Janet Rorrer from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission on Vision 2030: West Virginia Science & Technology Plan (Vision 2030)
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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for the Talk of the Town, Mike Notlting.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good Friday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It is nine oh six and happy Friday. A fog
and maybe some clouds, sixty four degrees currently. Metro Newszaki
Weather says today partly sunny and a high of seventy
eight degrees.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We made it to Friday. Did yourselves a.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hand's definitely an accomplishment this week, and I guess an
accomplishment when you, I guess. Take into consideration that news
cycles by and large last just about three hours at
a time these days.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Let's I guess the top.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
News of the hour would be that the folks at
next Era Energy Transmission they've released the preferred route of
their more than one hundred mile five hundred kilovolt transmission line.
I know that elected officials across the region or digesting
that plan. There are diagrams of that proposed route that
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have been released. Delegates across Preston Hampshire Mineral Counties Mond
County as well, or taking a look at that. Initial
reports would indicate that the line now just skirts a
corner of Man County, while certainly going through Preston, Hampshire
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and Mineral Counties. Talking with officials in Preston County this morning,
they haven't been able to look at enough to really
provide a comment yet. I think that that map has
not been released totally. There have been some pictures and
images released. The developers say that the decision on that
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preferred route it reflects more than twelve hundred public comments
received during eight open houses and two public online surveys.
The developers say that this route was produced after meetings
with more than three hundred land owners, elected officials, and
local businesses, economic development and community organizations. Now, the transmission
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project what has been proposed to the PSC. That is
an open case now, and records indicate that there have
already been eight hundred and seventy five comments that have
been registered with the PSC, all.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Of those comments in opposition.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Caitlin McCormick, the project manager with next Era Energy Transmission,
should be a guest on Metro News talk Line coming
up at ten oh six and certainly expect to get
some more detail from next Era energy transmission. I know
that the elected officials that I've had an opportunity to
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speak with this morning have elected not to go on
the record just yet. Think that they would like to
be able to get that map in their hands and
take a look at it and to be able to
know exactly where that transmission line is or is not going.
But initial reports would indicate that that transmission line just
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skirts a corner of Montagelia County. I think at one
time it was thought that that line would take a
substantial portion, maybe going through Cheat Lake, the dam area,
and some of the woodlands in that portion of the county.
We'll keep our eye on that, and of course would
certainly recommend that you tune in to Metro News talk
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Line in just about an hour and hear it straight
from the source. Caitlin McCormick will be a guest with
davidj and they'll be talking about that. Our program today
will be talking to doctor Janet Rohor with the State
Higher Education Policy Commission. We're going to be talking about
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the new Vision twenty thirty West Virginia Science and Technology Plan.
It is a new five year strategic plan to build
West Virginia science and technology sectors. We're going to talk
with doctor Janet Rore about that. Coming up at nine thirty,
we're going to spend a few minutes with University Police
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Chief Sheriff Sinclair. Yes, there is a home game this weekend,
but we're going to be talking primarily about the Cleary report.
And I did have a couple of other items on
our list that we're going to address with University Police
Chief Sheriff Sinclair.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
We'll do that at nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Right now, some clouds, a little bit of fog depending
on where you might b sixty four degrees. We'll be
back on AM fourteen forty FM one four point five
w A j R.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Right after this.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh good, Friday morning.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It is nine to fifteen Metro Newszaki Weather says today
partly Sunday in a hive, seventy six degrees and certainly
the rain that we've received this week has been a
welcomed gift, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I know that earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I guess it really started over the weekend, had quite
quite an event there on Saturday and then leading up
to Tuesday, maybe received about an inch inch and a
quarter during that timeframe, and then certainly the heavens opened
up about mid week. And I guess the only bad
thing about that whole entire situation.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Is the way that it was timed.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It won't necessarily hit the drought monitor until next week
because the bulk of the rainfall that we received came
after eight am on Tuesday, and that is the time
in which the drought monitor data is collected. Then it
takes them a couple of days to produce the maps,
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check the data, and make sure they've got everything together,
and then of course they release that information. So we
expect to see maybe some positive movement on the drought
monitor map coming up when that is released in just
about six days next week. Of talking with Metronews Aciweather
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meteorologist Chad Merrill on Thursday, Chad tells us that we
received some areas anyway on Thursday morning received a little
bit more than two inches of rain, and now I
think that the more common total throughout the area was
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just about a half to an inch of rain.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Certainly a big help in order to.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Tamp down some of the fire concerns as well as
also being able to help the farmers out. And of
course they say, at least I read that it will
create a very vibrant fall with this late rainfall, but
certainly State ad Commissioner Kent Leonhardt says, you know, hey,
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look we're still in a drought. Don't think that we're not,
because even though we had a very wet spring and
robust rainfall throughout the summer, we still haven't caught up
with the It was nearly sixty days during two thousand
and four twenty twenty four that we went without any
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significant rainfall. And really, to back that up, Metro Newzaki
weather meteorologist Chad Merrill says that there are areas in
the state that the rainfall deficits really vary anywhere from
two inches to as much as five inches across the state.
Well back in July of this year, the Higher Education
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Policy Commission got together and they released what's called Vision
twenty thirty. Vision twenty thirty is the West Virginia Science
and Technology Plan.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Their five year strategic plan in order.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
To plus up the technology and science sectors in the state.
And it's actually a call of call to in terms
of mobilizing the life sciences, health science, its agriculture, and
natural resources in order to produce some resilience across all
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of those spectrums. Now, in addition to that, advanced manufacturing, robotics,
some things like that, and also mix in some advanced
materials and efficiencies. And that's what this report deals with,
and it provides a roadmap in order for the state
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to be able to achieve employment goals, training goals, and
then also be able to help business and industry keep
pace with the economy and to maintain.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Growth across all sectors in the state.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Now, just this week, the State Economic Development Council, they
had their annual conference in the city of Bridgeport, and
through that conference and through the words of Secretary of
State Chris Warner, we were able to pick up that,
you know, Charles point is really a blueprint for maybe
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bringing economic development to more rural areas across the state
in terms of establishing tax increment financing districts that can
fund the infrastructure and the development and key facilities that
need to come with a twelve hundred acre development that
has an economic impact of a billion dollars annually. And
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of course a lot of those things you don't have
to be the water lines and the fire departments. And
now lo and behold. Although Charles Point is still a
work in progress and will likely be for its entire lifespan,
but in a period of twenty years now we've seen
the development of the large Minard's location there and also
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now the construction of the mon Health small format hospital
that being built in the image of I guess what
was built in Marion County just about three years ago
that has come to be a great success. And now
that small format hospital it will serve the community of
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Charles Point as well University Hospital Center, they too will
manage and take care of the medical needs of that area.
One of the things that came out, and I think
one of the things that this particular report addresses, is
the fact of the wide range of economic conditions across
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the state.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Secretary Warner addressed that very clearly on Thursday by saying
that you know, you've got areas in Logan McDowell County
that certainly don't have the same advantages as areas to
the north mon Marion portions of Harrison County, where you know,
we have things like the I seventy nine Technology Corridor.
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We have things like NASA FBI North Central West Virginia Airport,
and then of course you get up into Morgantown, the
Morgantown Airport along with the WVU Innovation Corporation. And you know,
I was checking on this earlier in the week and
this goes right along with it. But remember un Baio
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un Baio, they announced plans to build a manufacturing facility
here in the city of Morgantown, and based on their website,
that is still a possibility. No time frames have been announced,
and there has been no other information released about that
particular project. But those are the kinds of things advanced manufacturing,
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advanced materials and robotics some things like that. Those are
the kinds of things that this plan addresses. Now, when
you marry this up with all the kids from maybe
Mars and I know that we've talked with them possibly
in the past, Earl seem and what he and his
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students do in terms of their robotics tournaments and the
things that they're learning, and by the time that they
really get to.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
College age, they're.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Absolute sponges when it comes to technology on the phone.
I believe we have doctor Janet roor good morning, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh, good morning, I'm great. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
How are you hey, I'm doing very good. Thank you
very much.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I wanted to just to talk with you briefly about
the Vision twenty thirty, the West Virginia Science and Technology Plan.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Wonderful, I'm happy to be here. Yes, the Vision twenty
is West Virginia's new Science and Technology Plan. It's an
update from twenty twenty five. The Science and Technology Plans
really developed to guide the state's innovation ecosystem through the
next five to ten years. It's a living document that
we revise regularly based on what's going on in the state.
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We take a look at it, look at the data.
It's really about building infrastructure, talent partnerships that are needed
to make West Virginia a competitive player in the global economy.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So is this a checklist that maybe is more of
a call to action or is it just a strategic
plan that we put on the shelf and say this
is what we're going to do.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
It is a strategic plan that does not go on theself,
but really a call to action. It's definitely meant to
be a framework. It's meant to be a blueprint for
West Virginia's universities, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses, and industry to really
utilize to see where they can fit in the state's
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strategic plans and how we can move forward together as
a group.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What are the areas of priority?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
That's a great question. So we were able to work
together closely with a robust group of executive committee members.
We worked with consulting and research group RTI International and
together with their senior economists for Innovation and Economic Development.
We conducted over sixty interviews, and I should say RTI
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conducted over sixty interviews, so we were able to gether
input from universities, government agentustry, industries, government agencies and industries
to really create these four high priority areas, which also
include two underlying areas of importance. So I will get
to that answer right now. The first area of high
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priority as life sciences and so this includes health, agriculture,
natural resource resilience. The second areas artificial intelligence, machine learning,
and data science, which is a fast growing field with
applications across industries. The third is advanced manufacturing, which includes robotics.
I heard you just talking about that just a minute ago, automation,
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manufacturing efficiencies, and material science. And then the force is
advanced energy and so that's looking at anything from renewables
to energy reliability and efficiency. But that also has two
underlying areas of fundamental research, which really supports basic science
that fuels innovation, and also stem education and workforce development,
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which is building that talent pipeline from K through twelve,
community college and higher education.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Hey, you know, when I look at that plan and
what you just said, and the reason that I brought
robotics up was because I think that what this does,
this will increase our overall workforce participation rate because you
are engaging people at such a young age.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I agree one percent, and that's one of our goals
is to really interact and engage with those young individuals
and create that curiosity and intellectual questioning, especially as it
relates to science, technology, engineering, and math.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Doctor Janet Rhor is the senior director of Science and
Research at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
One of the things that I wanted to ask is.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
What about maybe some of the other industries that aren't
high technology, how do they benefit from this?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Well, all of the industries across the board are going
to benefit from the different initiatives that come out of
some of the research that's occurring at all the states.
So we have if we're just talking about not technology,
but within the healthcare field and all kind of ramps
back up into different avenues, but we're able to develop
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partnerships and really expand research programs. Industries will start will
hopefully be investing in innovation, which will then fuel some
of that additional growth. We have our state agencies working
in tandem to support growth, and institutions like West Virginia
University and Marshall University are launching new initiatives in AI
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and life sciences, and so we have a lot of
different activities surrounding technology that are advancing in West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Now, will you spot check the application of this strategic
plan or how will.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That part work?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's a wonderful question. We actually just talked about that
yesterday and we do have it built into the strategic
plan that the Executive Committee that was formed during this
update will meet at least three times a year to
check in and see how we can work together to
identify where the growth are occurring, where additional support might
be needed and how we can continue to move that
plan forward so it is something that is living and
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breathing with every successive year.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Okay, good deal, Doctor Janet Rhor. He is the senior
director of Science and Research at the West Virginia Higher
Education Policy Commission.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Hey, I'm glad we could catch up.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It's been a pleasure. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yes, ma'am. I hope you have a great weekend. Take
care of yourself. Thank you too, Yes, ma'am, Doctor Janet
Roor certainly appreciate her time. Coming up, next, we're gonna
get into the twenty twenty four Cleary Report from West
Virginia University and we'll do that with Sherry Sinclair. She's
the chief of police at the university Police Department. That
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is coming up, and next.
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Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the talk of
the town.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Good Friday morning. It is nine thirty four.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Ear this week of West Virginia University release their twoenty
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Cleary Act Report.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
The report really no major deviations from the twenty twenty
three report. And with reaction, we've got the chief of
the University Police department. Cherry Sinclair with Sherry, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
How are you good? How are you hey?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm doing good, Thank you very much. Let's dive into
that report. What would be your executive summary?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
So we did most of it's still consistent with last
year we did. There's a couple that was a little
higher than normal. Our burglaries were a little higher than normal.
But I can explain. Let me explain a little bit.
What that incorporates is, so our burglaries don't just include
a dwelling where someone lives, and also under cleary definition
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also includes like our academic buildings. So anytime we had
a deftin an academic building of someone who didn't belong
on there that committed that crime, that would be considered
a clear report for a burglary. So that's probably why
the numbers might have jumped a little bit this year.
So and then also we saw there was a slight
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increase in our stalking calls. That was I think a
lot of it we looked, I looked back through the cases.
A lot of that involved relationship issues where they broke
up and then the other part of the the relationship
would continue to call them and kind of send an
emails that get them a hold of through and just
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they the relationship was just didn't break up very well.
So we saw some spikes there. There was other social
media stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
If I if I could just to clarify on the
stalking thing, because so many times when people hear stalking,
they you know, they think of somebody following someone on
a dark street. But what you're saying is is that
this stalking was more or less electronic. You wanted electronic
nuisance behavior.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Yes, yes, we might have had a few cases where
maybe an X would shut keep showing up here and there,
but most of it was done by phone some kind
of electronic mode device.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I just I think that's important to point out. Yes,
yes it is okay.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
So and I think those were the two biggest jumps
we had in our in our report. Uh, but be
everything else seemed to be kind of normal. Every year
we go down, up and down a few numbers here
and there, but uh, those were the two biggest jump
jumps I saw.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You know, when you get a report like this, does
it trigger any kind of change or adjustment on your end?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, I mean we always look at the numbers and
see why they're doing that is there is there a
trend going on that we need to look at. Is
there something that we need to do differently? And even
through the school year, when we noticed several crimes that
are taking place, we'll send out a community notice or
something if we noticed that there's a trend going on
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here that make sure our students aware to protect themselves. So, yeah,
we try to pay attention to try to adjust to that.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, because you know, the reason I bring that up
is that it might not all the time be a
police issue, because I remember just a couple of years
ago that bicycles and electric bicycles.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yes, and it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Necessarily a police issue, but it was more of an
issue of the uniqueness of the item combined with you know,
maybe careless management of property.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, that is correct. I mean I think we sent
out a couple of community notices on that just make
it sure people wear lock your stuff up. And that's
a lot of our crimes are crime of opportunity. People
forget the locks your stuff up.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Now we've got University Police Chief Sherry Sinclair with us.
I'm glad you're with us, Sherry. One of the things
that I picked up on from the Daily Anthoneum was
about Borman Hall and a fact that you know, I
guess that has more police responses than any other dorm
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on campus.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
So Borman's right in the heart of our downtown campus,
I think a little bit. It also is a lot
of people come through there for the downtown area, so
it does pick up generate some calls. So I mean,
I looked at that article. A lot of that too.
Isn't going through always law enforcement that also reports anything
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like an RA would report any issues they have in
the hall with alcohol, drug that might not make it
to the law enforcement that gets reported there. That's incorporated
in that number. So two, we always see a jump
in the fall. Students get in, they're excited the first
time they're away from home. They go out and sometimes
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they might not make the best decisions. So then by
the second semester in the in the spring usually you
see them settle down a little bit. So that's why
you're always usually seeing a big increase in the fall,
and then it slows down through the spring because they
kind of get back into routine what they can do,
they learn what they can and cannot do.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So again I think it's important to point out that
what we're talking about here is uh uh, maybe not
so much criminal behavior, is it is rambunctious behavior.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yes, yeah, I think yeah. I think a lot of
people when they especially first time away from home and
you get exposed to a lot of different things. They're young,
they make mistakes. They learn from those mistakes, and I
see you see that in a second in the spring semester.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Okay, Now, Cherry wanted to ask you about the blue
light system on the on campus there.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Give us an update.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
So we check those phones. They're emergency phones that are
all around our campus. We check them monthly. We have
someone go out hit them, make sure they're functioning. We
always use We have a couple a few here and
there that'll go down every month, and then we have
one of our texts that go out and work and
figure out what the issue is and get them fixed.
So we usually always have a couple down here and
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there that we're working on. Rain really hurts our phones.
They're older. Rain gets into them a little bit. So
sometimes we have to go down after a big rain
storm and kind of reset them and get them going back.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Sure, and I think here again, it's important to point
out that that blue light phone system is not really
the preferred way that you want students and faculty to
communicate with you. I believe you want them to use
the app. Isn't that correct?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yes, that is correct. We would love for them to
download the lift Safe apps. That is the more preferred
rea way to contact us. You can be anonymous, you
can text this anything, you can send us pictures, you
have twenty four hour response back. I mean, you can
go to the Mercy phone and hit it, but you
have to stand there, you know what, and wait for
us to respond. This way, you can do this anywhere.
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So we really want, we prefer people to use the
lift Safe app.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And I think the other side of that coin, too, Sherry,
is that if you need to reach out and tell
somebody something very very important that they may not know,
you can do that with the press of a button.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Oh yes, yes you can do. It's just the press
of the button. Getting on the lift Safe app do that.
You can. Also, it has a new feature on if
you get in trouble, you hit a button and it
automatically sends an alert to us that you need help.
It's a two step button hit, but it didn't alerts us. Hey,
we'll try to text with you, we'll try to call.
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If you're not, we're sending officers to your location. It
gives us a GPS location where you're at. Okay, so
it's a nice feature. If someone can't speak, there's someone
there afraid of to just kind of double tap that
and we're coming.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That's good to know.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Now, I wanted to go back to the Cleary report
if we could real quick the hazing aspect of that. Yeah,
that that will be added. Tell us, tell us what's
going to happen there.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
So this is a new This is not anything that's
happening on our camp. This is a federal law that
they went into our implement and we're just buying by
the federal law. It's a new thing that you'll see
on next year's report. This year's the first year we're
starting to collect the information to report it. So it's
something that the federal government has come in, so they
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want to see the statistics on this.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Okay, Okay, so when when will when will you release
that information?
Speaker 5 (28:39):
So that'll go on next year's report that comes out
this time next year. Okay, So it's we're now started
on January first of this year. We're compelling that all
that information now, so anytime from this January first now,
it'll be we're collecting all that that comes in, and
then it'll be on next year's report at this time.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Okay, all right, well I guess so what do you
think that report is going to show.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I mean, we do have a couple here and there
that come in I think through the school year. With hazings,
it's a very difficult kind of crime to prove. We
got to get the willingness of the people involved in
the organizations to come forward, and sometimes they always are
are scared to do that. So we always report. It's
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always if we do get a report, we always there.
It doesn't always we can't always build a case on it,
you know what I mean. We try hard to do that,
but we just sometimes always can't build a case.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
And I'll tell you something else I'm thinking, is is
that a lot of times that when you and I'm
not saying this is a bad idea, don't get me wrong,
but a lot of times when you do this, those
numbers will increase.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Yeah, And that because we always want people to report everything,
you know, we encourage everyone to report. And when you're
encouraging people to report, you're you're going to see your
numbers go up.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
So yeah, that's just a reality yea of asking for
the information. Okay, let's see University police, chief sheriffs, and Claire.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay, it's another game day. Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, I think we're ready. We're ready. I think it'll
be a big day. I think the weather's gonna be nice,
so I think to be a little nicer, so I
think we're gonna get a good crowd.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
So yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
The weather does look like it's gonna be pretty nice.
I could I don't even want to say what I'm thinking.
But there there is a chance.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Yeah, there's in the evenings.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So let's hope for the best exactly. Okay, hey, Cherry,
go mountaineers, and really do.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Appreciate your time today, right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yes, ma'am, you take care of yourself. University police, chief
sheriffs and Claire. And of course, the Clarey Report. We
have an article there at w A j r dot com.
You can take a look at that, and the complete
Cleary report is available at the WVU news website right now. Subclouds,
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a little bit of fog sixty five. We'll be back
on Talk of the Town AM fourteen forty FM one
oh four point five w A j R.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Right after this.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Now back to the Talk of the Town.
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Good Friday morning is nine fifty subclouds and sixty five
degrees in the University City, West Virginia. Five one one
gives us an incident free interstate system. However, on Point
Marion Road just north of Fairfield, Manor, there is a
property damage vehicle crash reported.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
In that area.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
So if you're in that area, expect delays or and
if you can avoid it by all means do so.
We'll take a look at a couple of headlines to
round out the program. On Thursday, WVU announced a ten
year partnership with Hope Gas for naming rights at the
WVU Coliseum. That arena has been the home of a
Mountaineer basketball team since nineteen seventy, and it will now
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be known as the Hope Coliseum. I think that a
blue flame up there certainly would look very very good. Now,
if you go to wvmetronews dot com, the top story
there is about the mid Atlantic Resiliency link. Next Era
Energy Transmission has officially identified their preferred route, and of
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course Caitlin McCormick, she'll be a guest with David TJ
coming up next on Metro News talk Line to go
through the ins and outs of how they developed that
particular route. Now, one of the things that is in
the article thereby Brad mcilhanny is is that they developed
this route after conferring with three hundred landowners, elected officials,
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and local businesses, economic development and community organizations. And they
also received twelve hundred public comments over the course of
eight open houses and two public online surveys, so they'll
be using they used all of that information in order
to develop that particular route. Details on that coming up.
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Ten oh six Bridgeport woman who admitted to being drunk
when she struck and hurt a Doh worker. She'll serve
two to ten years of home incarceration. Forty seven year
old Kylie Wagner had a blood alcohol content of point
two zero which she hit that worker who was helping
with the cleanup of a semi accident on Route fifty
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Harrison County last March. The judge there cited a lack
of a criminal history from Wagner and also lacked what
he or I'm sorry, cited what he called true remorse
by Wagner in what happened on that highway Back in March,
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a man convicted of murder in Harrison County.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
He will receive mercy.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Thirty eight year old Dennis High was sentenced yesterday to
life in prison with mercy. He was convicted in August
for the killing of Clarksburg resident Dallion Lewis.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
He's one of five and dited in that.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Case a suspected shooter twenty four year old Cameron Griffin
of Akron. He's set to go on trial coming up
next month. Evidently that shooting and killing was all over
a one hundred dollars drug debt. High Jennifer Kirk and
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a couple of other accomplices. They lured Dallion lou Us
into that car and took him out on Jack Run
Road stopped.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That was the signal for the two to bail out of.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The back and reading the intimate details of the case,
Lewis was trapped in the backseat due to the child's
safety locks and was unable to get out of the
car when he was being shot by twenty four year
old Cameron Griffin of Akron, Ohio. It's up to fifteen
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years in prison for a Lewis County woman whose baby
was hospitalized with severe injuries. Alex Out Alexis Benned him
sentenced yesterday three counts of gross neglect of a child
with risk of death. She'll also spend ten years on
supervised release, and she'll be placed on a child abuse registry.
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Prosecutor say ben Adon failed to report the injuries caused
by co defendant eric On Junior, who he faced his
trial coming up in jail Nuary. The infant suffered a
brain bleed, fractured skull, broken ribs, and other injuries. We'll
be back to wrap things up after this. On Am
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for the Talk of the Town, Mike Notlting.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good Friday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It is nine oh six and happy Friday. A fog
and maybe some clouds, sixty four degrees currently. Metro Newszaki
Weather says today partly sunny and a high of seventy
eight degrees.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We made it to Friday. Did yourselves a.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hand's definitely an accomplishment this week, and I guess an
accomplishment when you, I guess. Take into consideration that news
cycles by and large last just about three hours at
a time these days.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Let's I guess the top.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
News of the hour would be that the folks at
next Era Energy Transmission they've released the preferred route of
their more than one hundred mile five hundred kilovolt transmission line.
I know that elected officials across the region or digesting
that plan. There are diagrams of that proposed route that
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have been released. Delegates across Preston Hampshire Mineral Counties Mond
County as well, or taking a look at that. Initial
reports would indicate that the line now just skirts a
corner of Man County, while certainly going through Preston, Hampshire
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and Mineral Counties. Talking with officials in Preston County this morning,
they haven't been able to look at enough to really
provide a comment yet. I think that that map has
not been released totally. There have been some pictures and
images released. The developers say that the decision on that
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preferred route it reflects more than twelve hundred public comments
received during eight open houses and two public online surveys.
The developers say that this route was produced after meetings
with more than three hundred land owners, elected officials, and
local businesses, economic development and community organizations. Now, the transmission
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project what has been proposed to the PSC. That is
an open case now, and records indicate that there have
already been eight hundred and seventy five comments that have
been registered with the PSC, all.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Of those comments in opposition.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Caitlin McCormick, the project manager with next Era Energy Transmission,
should be a guest on Metro News talk Line coming
up at ten oh six and certainly expect to get
some more detail from next Era energy transmission. I know
that the elected officials that I've had an opportunity to
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speak with this morning have elected not to go on
the record just yet. Think that they would like to
be able to get that map in their hands and
take a look at it and to be able to
know exactly where that transmission line is or is not going.
But initial reports would indicate that that transmission line just
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skirts a corner of Montagelia County. I think at one
time it was thought that that line would take a
substantial portion, maybe going through Cheat Lake, the dam area,
and some of the woodlands in that portion of the county.
We'll keep our eye on that, and of course would
certainly recommend that you tune in to Metro News talk
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Line in just about an hour and hear it straight
from the source. Caitlin McCormick will be a guest with
davidj and they'll be talking about that. Our program today
will be talking to doctor Janet Rohor with the State
Higher Education Policy Commission. We're going to be talking about
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the new Vision twenty thirty West Virginia Science and Technology Plan.
It is a new five year strategic plan to build
West Virginia science and technology sectors. We're going to talk
with doctor Janet Rore about that. Coming up at nine thirty,
we're going to spend a few minutes with University Police
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Chief Sheriff Sinclair. Yes, there is a home game this weekend,
but we're going to be talking primarily about the Cleary report.
And I did have a couple of other items on
our list that we're going to address with University Police
Chief Sheriff Sinclair.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
We'll do that at nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Right now, some clouds, a little bit of fog depending
on where you might b sixty four degrees. We'll be
back on AM fourteen forty FM one four point five
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Right after this.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh good, Friday morning.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It is nine to fifteen Metro Newszaki Weather says today
partly Sunday in a hive, seventy six degrees and certainly
the rain that we've received this week has been a
welcomed gift, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I know that earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I guess it really started over the weekend, had quite
quite an event there on Saturday and then leading up
to Tuesday, maybe received about an inch inch and a
quarter during that timeframe, and then certainly the heavens opened
up about mid week. And I guess the only bad
thing about that whole entire situation.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Is the way that it was timed.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It won't necessarily hit the drought monitor until next week
because the bulk of the rainfall that we received came
after eight am on Tuesday, and that is the time
in which the drought monitor data is collected. Then it
takes them a couple of days to produce the maps,
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check the data, and make sure they've got everything together,
and then of course they release that information. So we
expect to see maybe some positive movement on the drought
monitor map coming up when that is released in just
about six days next week. Of talking with Metronews Aciweather
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meteorologist Chad Merrill on Thursday, Chad tells us that we
received some areas anyway on Thursday morning received a little
bit more than two inches of rain, and now I
think that the more common total throughout the area was
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just about a half to an inch of rain.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Certainly a big help in order to.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Tamp down some of the fire concerns as well as
also being able to help the farmers out. And of
course they say, at least I read that it will
create a very vibrant fall with this late rainfall, but
certainly State ad Commissioner Kent Leonhardt says, you know, hey,
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look we're still in a drought. Don't think that we're not,
because even though we had a very wet spring and
robust rainfall throughout the summer, we still haven't caught up
with the It was nearly sixty days during two thousand
and four twenty twenty four that we went without any
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significant rainfall. And really, to back that up, Metro Newzaki
weather meteorologist Chad Merrill says that there are areas in
the state that the rainfall deficits really vary anywhere from
two inches to as much as five inches across the state.
Well back in July of this year, the Higher Education
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Policy Commission got together and they released what's called Vision
twenty thirty. Vision twenty thirty is the West Virginia Science
and Technology Plan.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Their five year strategic plan in order.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
To plus up the technology and science sectors in the state.
And it's actually a call of call to in terms
of mobilizing the life sciences, health science, its agriculture, and
natural resources in order to produce some resilience across all
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of those spectrums. Now, in addition to that, advanced manufacturing, robotics,
some things like that, and also mix in some advanced
materials and efficiencies. And that's what this report deals with,
and it provides a roadmap in order for the state
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to be able to achieve employment goals, training goals, and
then also be able to help business and industry keep
pace with the economy and to maintain.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Growth across all sectors in the state.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Now, just this week, the State Economic Development Council, they
had their annual conference in the city of Bridgeport, and
through that conference and through the words of Secretary of
State Chris Warner, we were able to pick up that,
you know, Charles point is really a blueprint for maybe
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bringing economic development to more rural areas across the state
in terms of establishing tax increment financing districts that can
fund the infrastructure and the development and key facilities that
need to come with a twelve hundred acre development that
has an economic impact of a billion dollars annually. And
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of course a lot of those things you don't have
to be the water lines and the fire departments. And
now lo and behold. Although Charles Point is still a
work in progress and will likely be for its entire lifespan,
but in a period of twenty years now we've seen
the development of the large Minard's location there and also
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now the construction of the mon Health small format hospital
that being built in the image of I guess what
was built in Marion County just about three years ago
that has come to be a great success. And now
that small format hospital it will serve the community of
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Charles Point as well University Hospital Center, they too will
manage and take care of the medical needs of that area.
One of the things that came out, and I think
one of the things that this particular report addresses, is
the fact of the wide range of economic conditions across
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the state.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Secretary Warner addressed that very clearly on Thursday by saying
that you know, you've got areas in Logan McDowell County
that certainly don't have the same advantages as areas to
the north mon Marion portions of Harrison County, where you know,
we have things like the I seventy nine Technology Corridor.
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We have things like NASA FBI North Central West Virginia Airport,
and then of course you get up into Morgantown, the
Morgantown Airport along with the WVU Innovation Corporation. And you know,
I was checking on this earlier in the week and
this goes right along with it. But remember un Baio
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un Baio, they announced plans to build a manufacturing facility
here in the city of Morgantown, and based on their website,
that is still a possibility. No time frames have been announced,
and there has been no other information released about that
particular project. But those are the kinds of things advanced manufacturing,
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advanced materials and robotics some things like that. Those are
the kinds of things that this plan addresses. Now, when
you marry this up with all the kids from maybe
Mars and I know that we've talked with them possibly
in the past, Earl seem and what he and his
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students do in terms of their robotics tournaments and the
things that they're learning, and by the time that they
really get to.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
College age, they're.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Absolute sponges when it comes to technology on the phone.
I believe we have doctor Janet roor good morning, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh, good morning, I'm great. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
How are you hey, I'm doing very good. Thank you
very much.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I wanted to just to talk with you briefly about
the Vision twenty thirty, the West Virginia Science and Technology Plan.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Wonderful, I'm happy to be here. Yes, the Vision twenty
is West Virginia's new Science and Technology Plan. It's an
update from twenty twenty five. The Science and Technology Plans
really developed to guide the state's innovation ecosystem through the
next five to ten years. It's a living document that
we revise regularly based on what's going on in the state.
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We take a look at it, look at the data.
It's really about building infrastructure, talent partnerships that are needed
to make West Virginia a competitive player in the global economy.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So is this a checklist that maybe is more of
a call to action or is it just a strategic
plan that we put on the shelf and say this
is what we're going to do.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
It is a strategic plan that does not go on theself,
but really a call to action. It's definitely meant to
be a framework. It's meant to be a blueprint for
West Virginia's universities, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses, and industry to really
utilize to see where they can fit in the state's
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strategic plans and how we can move forward together as
a group.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What are the areas of priority?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
That's a great question. So we were able to work
together closely with a robust group of executive committee members.
We worked with consulting and research group RTI International and
together with their senior economists for Innovation and Economic Development.
We conducted over sixty interviews, and I should say RTI
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conducted over sixty interviews, so we were able to gether
input from universities, government agentustry, industries, government agencies and industries
to really create these four high priority areas, which also
include two underlying areas of importance. So I will get
to that answer right now. The first area of high
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priority as life sciences and so this includes health, agriculture,
natural resource resilience. The second areas artificial intelligence, machine learning,
and data science, which is a fast growing field with
applications across industries. The third is advanced manufacturing, which includes robotics.
I heard you just talking about that just a minute ago, automation,
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manufacturing efficiencies, and material science. And then the force is
advanced energy and so that's looking at anything from renewables
to energy reliability and efficiency. But that also has two
underlying areas of fundamental research, which really supports basic science
that fuels innovation, and also stem education and workforce development,
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which is building that talent pipeline from K through twelve,
community college and higher education.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Hey, you know, when I look at that plan and
what you just said, and the reason that I brought
robotics up was because I think that what this does,
this will increase our overall workforce participation rate because you
are engaging people at such a young age.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I agree one percent, and that's one of our goals
is to really interact and engage with those young individuals
and create that curiosity and intellectual questioning, especially as it
relates to science, technology, engineering, and math.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Doctor Janet Rhor is the senior director of Science and
Research at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
One of the things that I wanted to ask is.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
What about maybe some of the other industries that aren't
high technology, how do they benefit from this?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Well, all of the industries across the board are going
to benefit from the different initiatives that come out of
some of the research that's occurring at all the states.
So we have if we're just talking about not technology,
but within the healthcare field and all kind of ramps
back up into different avenues, but we're able to develop
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partnerships and really expand research programs. Industries will start will
hopefully be investing in innovation, which will then fuel some
of that additional growth. We have our state agencies working
in tandem to support growth, and institutions like West Virginia
University and Marshall University are launching new initiatives in AI
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and life sciences, and so we have a lot of
different activities surrounding technology that are advancing in West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Now, will you spot check the application of this strategic
plan or how will.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That part work?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's a wonderful question. We actually just talked about that
yesterday and we do have it built into the strategic
plan that the Executive Committee that was formed during this
update will meet at least three times a year to
check in and see how we can work together to
identify where the growth are occurring, where additional support might
be needed and how we can continue to move that
plan forward so it is something that is living and
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breathing with every successive year.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Okay, good deal, Doctor Janet Rhor. He is the senior
director of Science and Research at the West Virginia Higher
Education Policy Commission.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Hey, I'm glad we could catch up.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It's been a pleasure. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yes, ma'am. I hope you have a great weekend. Take
care of yourself. Thank you too, Yes, ma'am, Doctor Janet
Roor certainly appreciate her time. Coming up, next, we're gonna
get into the twenty twenty four Cleary Report from West
Virginia University and we'll do that with Sherry Sinclair. She's
the chief of police at the university Police Department. That
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is coming up, and next.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the talk of
the town.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Good Friday morning. It is nine thirty four.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Ear this week of West Virginia University release their twoenty
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Cleary Act Report.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
The report really no major deviations from the twenty twenty
three report. And with reaction, we've got the chief of
the University Police department. Cherry Sinclair with Sherry, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
How are you good? How are you hey?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm doing good, Thank you very much. Let's dive into
that report. What would be your executive summary?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
So we did most of it's still consistent with last
year we did. There's a couple that was a little
higher than normal. Our burglaries were a little higher than normal.
But I can explain. Let me explain a little bit.
What that incorporates is, so our burglaries don't just include
a dwelling where someone lives, and also under cleary definition
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also includes like our academic buildings. So anytime we had
a deftin an academic building of someone who didn't belong
on there that committed that crime, that would be considered
a clear report for a burglary. So that's probably why
the numbers might have jumped a little bit this year.
So and then also we saw there was a slight
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increase in our stalking calls. That was I think a
lot of it we looked, I looked back through the cases.
A lot of that involved relationship issues where they broke
up and then the other part of the the relationship
would continue to call them and kind of send an
emails that get them a hold of through and just
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they the relationship was just didn't break up very well.
So we saw some spikes there. There was other social
media stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
If I if I could just to clarify on the
stalking thing, because so many times when people hear stalking,
they you know, they think of somebody following someone on
a dark street. But what you're saying is is that
this stalking was more or less electronic. You wanted electronic
nuisance behavior.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Yes, yes, we might have had a few cases where
maybe an X would shut keep showing up here and there,
but most of it was done by phone some kind
of electronic mode device.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I just I think that's important to point out. Yes,
yes it is okay.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
So and I think those were the two biggest jumps
we had in our in our report. Uh, but be
everything else seemed to be kind of normal. Every year
we go down, up and down a few numbers here
and there, but uh, those were the two biggest jump
jumps I saw.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You know, when you get a report like this, does
it trigger any kind of change or adjustment on your end?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, I mean we always look at the numbers and
see why they're doing that is there is there a
trend going on that we need to look at. Is
there something that we need to do differently? And even
through the school year, when we noticed several crimes that
are taking place, we'll send out a community notice or
something if we noticed that there's a trend going on
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here that make sure our students aware to protect themselves. So, yeah,
we try to pay attention to try to adjust to that.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, because you know, the reason I bring that up
is that it might not all the time be a
police issue, because I remember just a couple of years
ago that bicycles and electric bicycles.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yes, and it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Necessarily a police issue, but it was more of an
issue of the uniqueness of the item combined with you know,
maybe careless management of property.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, that is correct. I mean I think we sent
out a couple of community notices on that just make
it sure people wear lock your stuff up. And that's
a lot of our crimes are crime of opportunity. People
forget the locks your stuff up.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Now we've got University Police Chief Sherry Sinclair with us.
I'm glad you're with us, Sherry. One of the things
that I picked up on from the Daily Anthoneum was
about Borman Hall and a fact that you know, I
guess that has more police responses than any other dorm
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on campus.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
So Borman's right in the heart of our downtown campus,
I think a little bit. It also is a lot
of people come through there for the downtown area, so
it does pick up generate some calls. So I mean,
I looked at that article. A lot of that too.
Isn't going through always law enforcement that also reports anything
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like an RA would report any issues they have in
the hall with alcohol, drug that might not make it
to the law enforcement that gets reported there. That's incorporated
in that number. So two, we always see a jump
in the fall. Students get in, they're excited the first
time they're away from home. They go out and sometimes
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they might not make the best decisions. So then by
the second semester in the in the spring usually you
see them settle down a little bit. So that's why
you're always usually seeing a big increase in the fall,
and then it slows down through the spring because they
kind of get back into routine what they can do,
they learn what they can and cannot do.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So again I think it's important to point out that
what we're talking about here is uh uh, maybe not
so much criminal behavior, is it is rambunctious behavior.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yes, yeah, I think yeah. I think a lot of
people when they especially first time away from home and
you get exposed to a lot of different things. They're young,
they make mistakes. They learn from those mistakes, and I
see you see that in a second in the spring semester.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Okay, Now, Cherry wanted to ask you about the blue
light system on the on campus there.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Give us an update.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
So we check those phones. They're emergency phones that are
all around our campus. We check them monthly. We have
someone go out hit them, make sure they're functioning. We
always use We have a couple a few here and
there that'll go down every month, and then we have
one of our texts that go out and work and
figure out what the issue is and get them fixed.
So we usually always have a couple down here and
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there that we're working on. Rain really hurts our phones.
They're older. Rain gets into them a little bit. So
sometimes we have to go down after a big rain
storm and kind of reset them and get them going back.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Sure, and I think here again, it's important to point
out that that blue light phone system is not really
the preferred way that you want students and faculty to
communicate with you. I believe you want them to use
the app. Isn't that correct?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yes, that is correct. We would love for them to
download the lift Safe apps. That is the more preferred
rea way to contact us. You can be anonymous, you
can text this anything, you can send us pictures, you
have twenty four hour response back. I mean, you can
go to the Mercy phone and hit it, but you
have to stand there, you know what, and wait for
us to respond. This way, you can do this anywhere.
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So we really want, we prefer people to use the
lift Safe app.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And I think the other side of that coin, too, Sherry,
is that if you need to reach out and tell
somebody something very very important that they may not know,
you can do that with the press of a button.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Oh yes, yes you can do. It's just the press
of the button. Getting on the lift Safe app do that.
You can. Also, it has a new feature on if
you get in trouble, you hit a button and it
automatically sends an alert to us that you need help.
It's a two step button hit, but it didn't alerts us. Hey,
we'll try to text with you, we'll try to call.
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If you're not, we're sending officers to your location. It
gives us a GPS location where you're at. Okay, so
it's a nice feature. If someone can't speak, there's someone
there afraid of to just kind of double tap that
and we're coming.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That's good to know.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Now, I wanted to go back to the Cleary report
if we could real quick the hazing aspect of that. Yeah,
that that will be added. Tell us, tell us what's
going to happen there.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
So this is a new This is not anything that's
happening on our camp. This is a federal law that
they went into our implement and we're just buying by
the federal law. It's a new thing that you'll see
on next year's report. This year's the first year we're
starting to collect the information to report it. So it's
something that the federal government has come in, so they
(28:31):
want to see the statistics on this.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Okay, Okay, so when when will when will you release
that information?
Speaker 5 (28:39):
So that'll go on next year's report that comes out
this time next year. Okay, So it's we're now started
on January first of this year. We're compelling that all
that information now, so anytime from this January first now,
it'll be we're collecting all that that comes in, and
then it'll be on next year's report at this time.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Okay, all right, well I guess so what do you
think that report is going to show.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I mean, we do have a couple here and there
that come in I think through the school year. With hazings,
it's a very difficult kind of crime to prove. We
got to get the willingness of the people involved in
the organizations to come forward, and sometimes they always are
are scared to do that. So we always report. It's
(29:25):
always if we do get a report, we always there.
It doesn't always we can't always build a case on it,
you know what I mean. We try hard to do that,
but we just sometimes always can't build a case.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
And I'll tell you something else I'm thinking, is is
that a lot of times that when you and I'm
not saying this is a bad idea, don't get me wrong,
but a lot of times when you do this, those
numbers will increase.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Yeah, And that because we always want people to report everything,
you know, we encourage everyone to report. And when you're
encouraging people to report, you're you're going to see your
numbers go up.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
So yeah, that's just a reality yea of asking for
the information. Okay, let's see University police, chief sheriffs, and Claire.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay, it's another game day. Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, I think we're ready. We're ready. I think it'll
be a big day. I think the weather's gonna be nice,
so I think to be a little nicer, so I
think we're gonna get a good crowd.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
So yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
The weather does look like it's gonna be pretty nice.
I could I don't even want to say what I'm thinking.
But there there is a chance.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Yeah, there's in the evenings.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So let's hope for the best exactly. Okay, hey, Cherry,
go mountaineers, and really do.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Appreciate your time today, right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yes, ma'am, you take care of yourself. University police, chief
sheriffs and Claire. And of course, the Clarey Report. We
have an article there at w A j r dot com.
You can take a look at that, and the complete
Cleary report is available at the WVU news website right now. Subclouds,
(31:07):
a little bit of fog sixty five. We'll be back
on Talk of the Town AM fourteen forty FM one
oh four point five w A j R.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Right after this.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Now back to the Talk of the Town.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Good Friday morning is nine fifty subclouds and sixty five
degrees in the University City, West Virginia. Five one one
gives us an incident free interstate system. However, on Point
Marion Road just north of Fairfield, Manor, there is a
property damage vehicle crash reported.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
In that area.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
So if you're in that area, expect delays or and
if you can avoid it by all means do so.
We'll take a look at a couple of headlines to
round out the program. On Thursday, WVU announced a ten
year partnership with Hope Gas for naming rights at the
WVU Coliseum. That arena has been the home of a
Mountaineer basketball team since nineteen seventy, and it will now
(32:20):
be known as the Hope Coliseum. I think that a
blue flame up there certainly would look very very good. Now,
if you go to wvmetronews dot com, the top story
there is about the mid Atlantic Resiliency link. Next Era
Energy Transmission has officially identified their preferred route, and of
(32:45):
course Caitlin McCormick, she'll be a guest with David TJ
coming up next on Metro News talk Line to go
through the ins and outs of how they developed that
particular route. Now, one of the things that is in
the article thereby Brad mcilhanny is is that they developed
this route after conferring with three hundred landowners, elected officials,
(33:09):
and local businesses, economic development and community organizations. And they
also received twelve hundred public comments over the course of
eight open houses and two public online surveys, so they'll
be using they used all of that information in order
to develop that particular route. Details on that coming up.
(33:32):
Ten oh six Bridgeport woman who admitted to being drunk
when she struck and hurt a Doh worker. She'll serve
two to ten years of home incarceration. Forty seven year
old Kylie Wagner had a blood alcohol content of point
two zero which she hit that worker who was helping
with the cleanup of a semi accident on Route fifty
(33:53):
Harrison County last March. The judge there cited a lack
of a criminal history from Wagner and also lacked what
he or I'm sorry, cited what he called true remorse
by Wagner in what happened on that highway Back in March,
(34:14):
a man convicted of murder in Harrison County.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
He will receive mercy.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Thirty eight year old Dennis High was sentenced yesterday to
life in prison with mercy. He was convicted in August
for the killing of Clarksburg resident Dallion Lewis.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
He's one of five and dited in that.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Case a suspected shooter twenty four year old Cameron Griffin
of Akron. He's set to go on trial coming up
next month. Evidently that shooting and killing was all over
a one hundred dollars drug debt. High Jennifer Kirk and
(34:55):
a couple of other accomplices. They lured Dallion lou Us
into that car and took him out on Jack Run
Road stopped.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That was the signal for the two to bail out of.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The back and reading the intimate details of the case,
Lewis was trapped in the backseat due to the child's
safety locks and was unable to get out of the
car when he was being shot by twenty four year
old Cameron Griffin of Akron, Ohio. It's up to fifteen
(35:28):
years in prison for a Lewis County woman whose baby
was hospitalized with severe injuries. Alex Out Alexis Benned him
sentenced yesterday three counts of gross neglect of a child
with risk of death. She'll also spend ten years on
supervised release, and she'll be placed on a child abuse registry.
(35:51):
Prosecutor say ben Adon failed to report the injuries caused
by co defendant eric On Junior, who he faced his
trial coming up in jail Nuary. The infant suffered a
brain bleed, fractured skull, broken ribs, and other injuries. We'll
be back to wrap things up after this. On Am
fourteen forty f N one oh four point five W. A.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
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