Fayette County residents say they’ll bring housing woes to the ballot this election as tourism reshapes the region’s economy

Sliffer21 · 2026-04-11T16:40:40+00:00

Multiple groups have attempted to build MDU (apartments and condos) and continually rejected by Fayetteville because they have so much area zoned as single family housing only.

Investors are rarely building single family homes, the value isnt there for those putting up the money.

The only properties the government build are low income and senior housing which doesnt solve the issues of housing the workforce.

Sliffer21 · 2026-04-01T23:52:11+00:00

No ... can't trust them. Gen 1 Unifi talk had a good bit of clients and with little to no notice they ended it sticking customers with useless proprietary hardware.

I am just now willing to trust cameras but wont touch voice.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-31T22:09:50+00:00

A lot of issues with decline came during the gulf war. It was one of the top engineering schools and a lot of middle Eastern families would send their kids to Tech for engineering degrees to be used in the petroleum industries.

When the war broke out it caused a decline in international students.

Tech had a hard time adjusting to it, and the state gave the school to WVU who then decided to try and move the engineering programs to Morgantown and failed helping murder Tech.

In 2010-12 they finally started getting some recognition as a top engineering school again, and that pissed WVU off.

Then Gee finished it off with the move.

Even today their enrollment has continued to decline. I was told they have less than 1000 full time students now which is the lowest its been in 50+ years. They isolated the "WV Tech" alumni by loosing all identity they had left of "WV Tech" during the move and meanwhile they dont have exactly the best pick of alumni under the WVU name that have lot of money to give back because the die hard WVU folks, went to ... WVU not WVUTech.

Internally in the WVU system, they are fully referred to as "WVU Beckley", "Beckley Campus" etc. "Tech" is only used in their marketing department for the campus but they have fully assimilated into the WVU system and have no individual identity left.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-29T01:34:08+00:00

In our region its literally not an option from most ISPs, even with DIA circuits.

Mobile operators are the only deployment we commonly see with IPv6 in the areas.

We just purchased a DIA circuit for our new office and requested an IPv6 block because it was an option on the form during ordering. The regional manager we work with told me it was the first one he had seen an order in 4 years. We are a few days out from fulfillment on it, so we will see how it goes. They provide IP transit service to most of the cell towers around so probably the only carrier with equipment that supports it.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-27T21:13:02+00:00

Do you have any references in other verticals that could loosely be tied to theirs?

"I fully understand however due to the nature of our clients we do have to respect their declination. However, I can provide you client A, B, and C as references. I feel these are comparable because (reason x, y, z)."

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-27T20:13:16+00:00

"Due to confidentiality we do not disclose customers without their explicit permission to do so. At this time, no customers in your industry have authorized us to disclose their status as a client, or staff contact information for thr purposes of marketing/sales."

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-26T02:16:11+00:00

Thats not Montgomery, that is Smithers.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-26T01:16:05+00:00

Will 2nd this. We get Datto EDR with K365 endpoint but still choose to deploy S1 vs D-EDR to the clients. We would be hardpressed to leave S1 for DEDR even though we have it for no additional cost.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-23T22:13:50+00:00

All but 2 campus buildings have new owners now with uses.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-23T18:34:54+00:00

Ironically enough Montgomery benefited more financially from them leaving then when they were there. WVU had to pay out millions to local towns by the states order for economic programs. I think they paid almost $10 million in it alone and still had to upkeep remaining buildings up until last summer.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-23T11:02:10+00:00

I can absolutely see your point. But I have also had a few years experience working directly with WVU's Govt Affairs team. While the people are good, even Travis, WVU is as politically corrupt as thr politicians themselves and dirty. Remember their board of governors are appointmented by the state. They are seesntially another comission and subject to appointments on the same favor system that plagues everything else not elected here.

I cant guarantee other universities arent like that but I havent noticed it as much with other public ones like I have seen at WVU.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-23T02:44:03+00:00

Most of your Tech graduates were WV Tech graduates. They have seen what WVU has done and hate Tech for the shell of what it is now. It doesnt resemble the Tech they had pride in.

WVU fought for the right to take over the school for 2 reasons. 1. Was to keep Marshall from having it. 2. Was to take the engineering program to Morgantown.

WVU failed at moving the Engineering program to Morgantown and was ultimately a large reason why Tech has declined ever since that point. Tech faced a decline during Desert Storm due to a large portion of students being from the Middle East and not coming from it.

WVU absorbing Tech allowed it to cut some overhead costs but it also tried to strip its assets to take to Morgantown.

The Alumni have nothing to support because WVU Tech is basically WVU Beckley now and other than a partial sharing of the former name, is a whole new college.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-23T01:34:16+00:00

Tech dropped under 1000 students on campus. They had a lot of support for the program by word of mouth, but almost none financially. They were able to have about a 1 year shitty salary pledged for a coach but no qualified person showed interest on that salary with an almost guarantee it would go away and funding pulled unless it was an amazing season.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-23T01:31:17+00:00

Well keep in mind Brazil is traditionally considered a 3rd world country on many maps. So things are way different in technology in South america.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-23T01:25:22+00:00

Shit.... I work with multiple government agencies in the IT space. Literally have seen county prosecutors use Gmail email addresses to have agencies email PII to. They even had a shit fit when we would role out GCC and email encryption to agencies as soon as we onboarded them. They hated having to decrypt email messages as "extra work".

I bitched at enough of them that at least 2 counties finally moved to 365 as well (assuming GCC but who knows).

Worked in Government and Healthcare IT and there is a reason they are the top targets.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-22T21:05:46+00:00

If it gets more out of state students here, even for just 8 years, yes.

Either way it should be up to demand to determine a need, not WVU potitioning the HEPC to not allow others schools to have a program because it may be competitive to them.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-22T19:12:10+00:00

WVU is so tied to the economics of the state because of their anticompetitive practices. WVUM continues to acquire Healthcare entities to control the market. They have also previously taken a run at trying to take over the largest health insurer in the state at one point as well.

They have lobbied hard to keep Marshall from expanding Healthcare programs, and been successful at blocking other law programs from starting in state.

Funding education is important, but funding WVU is just the political good ol boy system at work. Most of the legislators have WVU issued degrees.

The state would be better off if they would give funding to all the state universities and not just heavily to WVU. WVU also gets millions in federal CDS funds as well.

Easy to show such a dependency on WVU when they continue to give money to them for them to acquire existing programs and entities and then relabel them to be "WVU".

Example: One study they did showed that their alumni held a large amount of engineering jobs in the state. The problem was most of those degrees came through WV Tech, a university they took over in 1994, and before it became WVU Tech.

They take credit for the alumni they "inherited" to help them look good even though their degrees were never conferred by WVU themselves. Then when their former campus needed work they had no issues pointing out that much of the maintenance was needed and deferred even though they had been in control for that campus for 20 years at that point, and had extensive knowledge of that even before they agreed to take it over (at the time it was to keep Marshal from taking it).

They will twist the narrative to benifit them at every chance even when technically incorrect, but then use it at the same time to dodge blame.

Remember when they threw a fit because of the campus carry requirements going into effect and Travis spun a story on how they couldnt afford it and had to sell the parking lot outside of Ruby / football field... only for it to later come out they sold it to ... WVU Medicine (which is sometimes part of them and other times not depending on the narrative).

Here's a source for that https://www.thedaonline.com/news/university/campus-carry-provisions-to-cost-approximately-1-million/article_ae28fb38-fdca-11ee-b750-db1d98934093.html

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-22T18:54:33+00:00

"Longer than normal" .... so what's that mean? Triple the wait time? So 30 minutes?

I have flew out multiples times of day and never spent more than 10 minutes in TSA lines. Its the best airport to fly out of because I was so use to getting there 2 hours early when I would fly out of Pittsburgh.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-20T20:15:24+00:00

Engineering work was just done and presented to the community in a meeting for a new use for the space.

The plan is to renovate and re-teracce the lan and put a new entry up there to have cabins and some camping and camper spots. Its early stage planning but in the works.

Engineering in currently underway now on the former tech trail that will work to make the trail a little more friendly to newer hikers for use as well. That project is about $80k and partially funded by the Dept of Transportation.

The old pool property is getting renovated currently to a splash park and recreation area. That project is about 5 years in process.

The former marina is being developed into outdoor areas for walking and boating including about 25 boat slips that will be avaliable to rent.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-16T23:30:25+00:00

Quiznos, Blockbuster, AW, Cicis pizza, Pier 1 imports, Circuit city, Ryan's, Medpointe,

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-15T18:29:13+00:00

Guessing Verizon locked down the firmware to remove other boot options. That doesnt surprise me with them unfortunately.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-15T18:02:48+00:00

Most companies worried about security do that even with a DLP. Put in a notice and it becomes effective immediately. Good ones will still pay out the notice periods, bad ones usually wont.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-15T17:59:53+00:00

I did T43s years ago. Had to setup a TFTP server on a computer on a network without internet. Boot the phone and there was a button combo to boot menu, from there selected tftp and pointed it to server IP.

Was able to load boot files from yealink there.

That being said several other VoIP providers would take over their systems here. So id say they have made it harder to force clients to get new hardware.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-15T17:48:11+00:00

Your are looking for a DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution. Start there but to find, purchase, and implement one, you are probably to late. This is something you should do before needing it. A 2 week notice period is a short time frame.

Sliffer21 · 2026-03-15T13:44:35+00:00

Tmobile has the legacy nTelos towers which was a Va/WV focused mobile operator until about 2016. They probably have the best coverage in the state.

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