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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1997
Page
4
The Daily Telegraph Editorial Board presents the consensus column statements. Steve Smith and Thomas A Colley are listed as Publisher and Executive editor respectively.
Editorial argues Virginia DEP backed off yard waste landfill ban enforcement. Mercer County built a composting pad but now faces potential redundancy. Questions whether new guidance allowing landfills as a last resort undermines composting. Urges localities to compost, avoid landfill disposal, and follow original ban while supporting at landfill services.
Debate grows over daily prisoner housing charges in southern West Virginia counties at the Southern Regional Jail. Counties pay 38 per inmate per day, up from Mercer County's 26 before regionalization. Officials reviewed estimates, but counties cite lack of notice and question regionalization.
Larry Hypes notes Bluefield officials plan to honor late recreation leaders Herb Sims and Tony Lotito with dedications. Sims led city softball and youth leagues. Lotito built city sports facilities and coached at Pocahontas and Bluefield colleges. The writer urges input at the June 10 meeting on naming parts of parks or facilities for them.
Government lawyers urge the Supreme Court to grant review in the Oncale case to decide if same gender sexual harassment is illegal discrimination under Title VII. The Fifth Circuit barred such claims, while other circuits have allowed them under the civil rights law. The Clinton administration argues the prohibition on sex discrimination covers both opposite and same sex harassment.
In a letter from Bluefield West Virginia Thomas V McFarland describes a decades long battle to fix a dangerous intersection at Kirk Street and East Cumberland Road. He notes increasing traffic from 16 to 47 families and 70 to 75 vehicles daily and cites repeated accidents including two or more totaled vehicles in the past 10 days. He calls on city officials and the Highway Safety Division to provide safety measures to prevent possible fatal crashes.
Washington column cites new intelligence clearance guidelines as common-sense checks on officials with access to secrets. It notes issues from Ames and Nicholson scandals, lists risk factors like overindulgence sex foreign influence and personal conduct, and questions their application to Congress and White House. Columnists Jack Anderson and Jan Moller, United Feature Service.
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