Jefferson County Rejects Water Bottling Plant And Reporters Discuss Food Dyes, Vaccines This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, Jefferson County rejected a proposal for Mountain Pure Water Bottling Facility last week, a plant that would have extracted and packaged groundwater in the historic community of Middleway. For now, that decision bookends a protracted debate over local land use involving a developer, the county planning commission and hundreds of concerned residents. Jack Walker walks us through last week’s hearing.

And at the end of each week during the legislative session, our reporters get together to discuss some of the major issues they covered on The Legislature Today. We often invite a reporter from a different news organization to join us to get a different perspective and as last week wound to a close, Curtis Tate and Brianna Heaney were joined by MetroNews’ Brad McElhenny.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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