Letters reflect local tensions on crime guns and politics
A long reader letter set from Princeton residents arguing over downtown decline, gun control, and local governance. It includes protests about liberal council influence, questions about refugees and doctors, debate on handgun bans, Bluewell rate hearings, and community thanks to hospital staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Tolliver
Princeton
Mercer
Bluewell Public Service District
W. Va
Falls Mills Dam
Falls Mills
Bluewell
Brushfork
Montcalm
Stony Ridge
Cole Motors
West Virginia Water Co
Public Service Commission
Charleston
Bluefield City
State Road Department
Statehouse Notebook Governor's Race For 1984 Already Beginning
West Virginia Democrats test the 1984 governor race early as Chauncey Browning and Clyde Lee loom as potential candidates to succeed Gov. Jay Rockefeller. Browning, finishing a fourth term as attorney general, is seen as a front runner. House Speaker See is also floated as a possible contender, while Lee weighs a full time political bid. Rumors persist that Cleve Benedict may seek Byrd's Senate seat, shifting the congressional landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
Clyde Lee
Chauncey Browning
Jay Rockefeller
Browning
Rockefeller
Chauncey
See
House of Delegates
Moorefield
Lee
Cleve Benedict
Benedict
Robert C. Byrd
U.S
Senate
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Shoptalk
Mr. Epstein
Ted Kennedy
Spain
Smith & Wesson
Kennedy
Bluewell Water
Donley St
Apt
Morgantown
Abortion Fight
Arizona
O'Connor
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Senate
Supreme Court
Byrd
Jessie Anderson
Bluefield Community Hospital
Danny Wills
Wills
Anderson
Mrs
William F. Anderson
Bluefield, W.va
Deejay
Dee Jay
The
Victor
Ms. N. Ferguson
Ms. Ferguson
Mall
Maryland
West Virginia
Statehouse
Associated Press
Chamber of Commerce
State Chamber of Commerce
Municipal League
Associations of Manufacturers and Retailers
U. S
House of Represen
Colonial Jewelers
Colonial Theatre
Princeton Ave
Bluefield
ArtCarved Class Rings, Inc
J.C. Bradfords Co
Virginia
Bradford
Moody’s
Standard & Poor's
J.C. Bradford & Co
West Kirk Ave
Roanoke
Raleigh
Mali
Warlick
Warlicks
Kelvinator
Sylvania
Warricks
Scott É
Raleigh St
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