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Opioid crisis, coal boom, and road bond gains shape region
Mercer County officials discuss opioid addiction and rising jail costs while detailing a 21 percent jail expenditure increase from 2010 to 2017. The piece also covers a brutal 2017 crimes case, a coal industry uptick under Trump era policies, a fatal I-77 tractor-trailer crash involving a Salisbury family, and voter approval of a $1.6 billion Roads to Prosperity bond funding Bluefield airport extension and King Coal Highway projects.
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Donald Trump
Mercer County
Princeton
Bluefield
Wayne W. Hartley
Hartley
Angela M. Graham
Patricia Hartley
Wythe Avenue
Graham
Wayne Hartley
Mercer County Circuit Court
William Sadler
Sadler
Coalroom. Com
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
Jason Bostic
West Virginia Coal Association
Washington
Bostic
Trump
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
Joshua Cline
Greater Bluefield
Camp Creek
Mercer County Emergency Management
Tim Farley
Nowhere
McDowell County
Monroe County
Jim Justice
Airport Road
Justice
Rt. 460