At a December 20, 2022 Morgantown City Council meeting, a vote was called for a new employment contract of City Manager Andro Kim Haws. Haws is the highest-paid city official in Morgantown's history, receiving $635,404 of your taxpayer money since 2020. After the camera recording the public meeting was shut off, a scowling Haws closed in on the councilwoman who had just stood up for…

BOPARC has disabled the ability of all Morgantown residents to comment on a post about the Krepps Park athletic court project on the official city social media page. WVMAD was tipped off by an apparent Morgantown government worker. This is a violation of the 1st Amendment, according to the U.S. Supreme Court.  We reported on the troubled Krepps Park project just yesterday. To recap: this summer, Morgantown…

Disaster at Krepps: New $200K Athletic Courts completely unusable In April, the Dominion Post reported that BOPARC would do a "total replacement" of the Krepps Park tennis, pickleball and basketball courts after "years of patching and resurfacing." By July, the new surface was laid. However, residents soon noticed the courts were uneven, forming giant puddles dubbed the “Krepps Park Pond” on social media. Despite the…

This is Part 2 of the homelessness series. Read Part 1 here for the Bartlett House backstory. Bartlett House board member Christopher Meyers, from Pittsburgh, utilized Bartlett House’s homeless shelter on University Avenue to store his personal business’s arcade equipment, as reported by another board member to WVMAD. Who is Chris Meyers? According to a Dominion Post article from 2022, Meyers has “built a vending route of…

NEW—Read Part 1 Now: Haws Attacked Councilwoman Over Secret Contract Do you want to better our great city and possess information about Andro? Learn how to contact us.  Morgantown City Manager Andro Kim Haws, July 2024