Regional airport documents RIP

On my desk is a pile of binders and other printed material all going back to the days when the regional airport between Huntington and Charleston was a hot topic. It was passed on to me as various people retired. Now I'm about to retire all those expensive studies to the trash can.

I covered the regional airport proposal from I think 1989 to whenever it was that it died its slow and forgotten death. I covered it even after it became obvious that the airport was never being built. But the studies continued anyway, as did the lobbying and griping.

So sometime this week -- probably on Thursday, I will bid farewell to a foot-tall stack of papers and move on to the next housecleaning project of long-forgotten ideas that may have been good once.