by Faye Flam If there’s a common theme in the errors of the U.S. response to COVID-19, it’s been the astounding amount of squandering. Our leaders squandered […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
No surprise: Alex Padilla picked for U.S. Senate seat
California Gov. Gavin Newsom made a wise, if not terribly surprising, choice last Tuesday in appointing Secretary of State Alex Padilla to serve the remaining two years […]
Dec. 27 letters to the editor
Phase out personal income tax responsibly Recent political discussion topics have encompassed the policy proposal from state legislators to abolish the personal income tax in West Virginia. […]
A crooked Christmas tree for a crooked year
by ML Cavanaugh Our Christmas tree has a knee. “A crooked tree for a crooked year” was my sales pitch when we spotted the bent ponderosa pine […]
An economist shares thoughts on the coal economy
by Michael J. Hicks I started my academic career in coal country, working in an economic research center at Marshall University in West Virginia. It was exciting […]
Stop dismissing all vaccine skeptics as anti-science
by Kira Ganga Kieffer Infection and death rates caused by COVID-19 are raging, but the rollout of the vaccines brings new hope that the pandemic will end […]
Russian hack is no small thing
by Jay Ambrose This is the 21st century, so far a frightening age, and we’ve just had an act of modernistic war, a hacking attack through which […]
Revive the Civilian Conservation Corps for the modern era
With the coronavirus pandemic having resurrected a Depression-like economic downturn, it may be time for us to consider reviving some Depression-era solutions. Hawaii brought back Franklin D. […]
Supreme Court shouldn’t have punted on Trump’s census order
by Scott Martelle Too soon. That’s the upshot of the Supreme Court’s decision last Friday morning in a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s effort to subtract […]
Record number of journalists imprisoned
by Alan D. Miller A record number of journalists were imprisoned because of their work on your behalf in 2020, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ […]
