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Apr 29, 2021
Apr 29, 2021
The BridgeValley Community and Technical College (BVCTC) Board of Governors has announced four new members, appointed by Governor Jim Justice and confirmed by the Senate: Megan Callaghan Bailey, Ashley N. Deem, Barry Holstein and Larry Pack Jr.
The BridgeValley Board of Governors consists of nine lay members and three representatives of the college, including a faculty representative, a staff representative, and a student representative, all elected by their respective governing bodies.
Deem, a career litigator, will serve as chairman of the Board of Governors, while Mark Blankenship will serve as vice chairman. Deem and Blankenship were nominated and voted into their respective positions at the most recent Board of Governors meeting held on April 16.
December 13, 2020
On a late September day in 2019, clients of the software company Chef found their products, which help companies manage their digital infrastructure, weren’t working. The glitch wasn’t an accident. Days before, Chef employees had learned via Twitter that the company had contracts with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Protests on social media followed, culminating in programmer Seth Vargo removing a key piece of code from the sharing site GitHub, causing the software to be unusable for several hours.
It took the company’s leadership a few days to respond substantively to employees’ questions about its relationship with the agencies, which were being fiercely criticized at the time for their family separation policies. The answer: Chef would fulfill its contracts with ICE and CBP. “I do not believe that it is appropriate, practical, or within our mission to examine specific government projects with the