Build it, and they will come. So goes the (paraphrased) quote from “Field of Dreams,” the 1989 mystical movie about the Iowa farmer who decides to build […]
Month: October 2023
WVU must regain, then maintain, the trust it has broken
There was nothing new in the disparate State of the University addresses given by WVU’s President Gordon Gee and by the West Virginia United Students’ Union on […]
Blame the House, not the U.S. Constitution, for the speaker mess
by Noah Feldman On the surface, the gridlock caused by the Republican Party’s failure to elect a speaker of the House of Representatives looks like a dysfunction […]
What a Palestinian state would look like
On “60 Minutes” on Oct. 15, President Biden said he thinks it would be a “mistake … for Israel to occupy … Gaza again.” He also conceded […]
FBI center hosts annual teen academy for local high school students
The FBI’s third annual teen academy, held Tuesday at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) in Clarksburg, saw over 80 students from 30 area high […]
MPO Policy Board to consider extending Exit 155 project timeline
MORGANTOWN — In 2019, it was believed a project to reshape Interstate 79’s Star City exit (Exit 155) would begin in 2021. Now, as 2023 draws to […]
Diane Lepley
Diane Stewart Lepley, 73, of Morgantown, formerly of Washington, D.C., passed away Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, at Mon Health Medical Center. Friends will be received at Wesley […]
William Jefferson Jr.
William “Billy Jack” Luther Jefferson, Jr., 71, passed peacefully on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, surrounded by loved ones at the Shenandoah Center in Charles Town. Billy Jack […]
Byron Phillips
Byron E. Phillips, 96, of Morgantown, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, at Sundale Nursing Home. He was born on March 21, 1927, in Blacksville, son […]
Joan Malcolm
Joan Elaine “Tootsie” Malcolm, 92, of Masontown, went to heaven to be with Jesus and to reunite with her husband, Joseph Malcolm Sr., on Monday, Oct. 23, […]
