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Article: Imagine West Virginia Gets Under Way
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- The State Journal
- Article date:
- May 11, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright State Journal Corporation May 11, 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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MORGANTOWN - Imagine West Virginia, the new public policy research, arm of Vision Shared, has developed a short list of policy areas that it will research for future policy recommendations.
"What we've done is get from a 30,000-foot view down several thousand feet into key issue areas that excite the board," said Executive Director Rick Remish.
A St. Marys native and at one time a member of West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller's Washington D.C. staff, Remish came on as the group's first executive director in December.
He hosted his governing board in Morgantown for its first meeting in April.
"The meeting here was really focused on our first project," Remish said, "an analysis, if ...