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Morgantown holds top-10 ranking
For the second year in a row, Morgantown has cracked the top-10 in Forbes Magazine's "Best Small Places for Businesses and Careers 2010" list.
Morgantown ranks at #10 this year, after landing the 3-spot in 2009. To read more about Morgantown's latest feat, Click Here.
WV Ranks #1
According to a National Mining Association document citing an EIA study, West Virginia ranks #1 in the nation in energy affordability. West Virginia also ranks #2 in the nation in coal productions and #9 in the nation in coal use.
For more information about West Virginia and its energy use, Click Here to Download the NMA Release.
Looking to launch a business? CNN Money says look to Morgantown
CNN Money ranks Morgantown as #7 on the 2009 "Best Places to Launch a Small Business" list in the "Smaller Cities" category. It was also listed #37 among all cities nationally.
The article contains many insights into the small business climate of Morgantown. To read the article, Click Here.
Morgantown earns #3 Forbes Ranking
Morgantown came in at #3 on the 2009 Forbes Magazine "Best Small Places for Businesses and Careers" list.
To read the determining factors behind the list and how Morgantown measured up, Click Here.
Wall Street Journal praises Morgantown
Looking for a job? Try a college town.
Morgantown, W.Va., home to West Virginia University, has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the U.S. -- just 3.9% -- and the university itself has about 260 job openings, from nurses to professors to programmers.
"We're hurting for people, especially to fill our computer and technical positions," says Margaret Phillips, vice president for human relations at WVU.
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Morgantown profiled on NPR
Helped by a growing university population and a building boom, Morgantown, W.Va., has the nation's lowest unemployment rate at 2.7 percent in December -- well below the 7.2 percent national rate.
Mountaintop removal mining is a hot topic in West Virginia, but in one part of the state, mountains are moved for a different purpose: Bulldozers carve out the Allegheny foothills for condos and shopping malls in Morgantown.
This city is home to West Virginia University, where enrollment has grown to nearly 30,000, putting a big demand on housing.
Inside a 1970s apartment building, workers are busy renovating the place.
"Morgantown definitely is doing better than the rest of the state, but the state as a whole is doing better than the rest of the country," says developer Chris Ilardi, the building's owner.
Five years ago, the government classified Morgantown as a metropolitan area. National developers then flooded into the market and the population increased to more than 87,000...
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Morgantown on NBC Nightly News
Morgantown was recently profiled on MBC Nightly News. To view the video, click the image above or Click Here.
Morgantown holds top-10 ranking
For the second year in a row, Morgantown has cracked the top-10 in Forbes Magazine's "Best Small Places for Businesses and Careers 2010" list.
Morgantown ranks at #10 this year, after landing the 3-spot in 2009. To read more about Morgantown's latest feat, Click Here.
WV Ranks #1
According to a National Mining Association document citing an EIA study, West Virginia ranks #1 in the nation in energy affordability. West Virginia also ranks #2 in the nation in coal productions and #9 in the nation in coal use.
For more information about West Virginia and its energy use, Click Here to Download the NMA Release.
Looking to launch a business? CNN Money says look to Morgantown
CNN Money ranks Morgantown as #7 on the 2009 "Best Places to Launch a Small Business" list in the "Smaller Cities" category. It was also listed #37 among all cities nationally.
The article contains many insights into the small business climate of Morgantown. To read the article, Click Here.
Morgantown earns #3 Forbes Ranking
Morgantown came in at #3 on the 2009 Forbes Magazine "Best Small Places for Businesses and Careers" list.
To read the determining factors behind the list and how Morgantown measured up, Click Here.
Wall Street Journal praises Morgantown
Looking for a job? Try a college town.
Morgantown, W.Va., home to West Virginia University, has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the U.S. -- just 3.9% -- and the university itself has about 260 job openings, from nurses to professors to programmers.
"We're hurting for people, especially to fill our computer and technical positions," says Margaret Phillips, vice president for human relations at WVU.
Read More.
Morgantown profiled on NPR
Helped by a growing university population and a building boom, Morgantown, W.Va., has the nation's lowest unemployment rate at 2.7 percent in December -- well below the 7.2 percent national rate.
Mountaintop removal mining is a hot topic in West Virginia, but in one part of the state, mountains are moved for a different purpose: Bulldozers carve out the Allegheny foothills for condos and shopping malls in Morgantown.
This city is home to West Virginia University, where enrollment has grown to nearly 30,000, putting a big demand on housing.
Inside a 1970s apartment building, workers are busy renovating the place.
"Morgantown definitely is doing better than the rest of the state, but the state as a whole is doing better than the rest of the country," says developer Chris Ilardi, the building's owner.
Five years ago, the government classified Morgantown as a metropolitan area. National developers then flooded into the market and the population increased to more than 87,000...
Read More.
Morgantown on NBC Nightly News
Morgantown was recently profiled on MBC Nightly News. To view the video, click the image above or Click Here.