Several large pieces of cobalt-blue glass panels bearing “Don’t Give Up the Ship” and a bold likeness of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry lay broken at the top […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
Oct. 17 letters to the editor
Subdivision regulations: Better late than never The Monongalia County Commission has considered the adoption of subdivision regulations on and off for 50 years. For decades our fast-growing […]
Sober judgment on a public intoxication center can only help
Morgantown has had a drinking problem for decades. That problem extends from Fraternity Row and packed bars to downtown sidewalks and hospital emergency rooms. Hospital emergency rooms? […]
Do our supermarket aisles really qualify as racist?
My supermarket has a giant “international” food aisle dominated by Asian and Latino products. Which items end up in a section dedicated to a particular foreign culture’s […]
Oct. 16 letters to the editor
Republicans who back Trump on wrong side In a land and a world where common sense has been vandalized, there is still the passage of time, and […]
Public forums offer chance to reset our focus on drug crisis
“What shall we do then?” It’s a question that spans the ages on complex issues about the social condition. That quote above is found in Luke, Chapter […]
Some new insight into ‘facts’ about media bias
Since colonial days the press has been a target of those who believe journalists have a point of view that shapes their reporting. There have been numerous […]
Audubon has quantified threat
For serious birders who regularly observe birds in the wild, ignoring climate change isn’t possible. We have been seeing and documenting the effects of a warming climate […]
Attendance still key to learning and to teaching in schools
“The bottom line is, we’re all missing too much school.” That’s how Steve Paine, the state superintendent of schools, described the issue of absenteeism among West Virginia’s […]
‘That couldn’t happen here in America’
I was maybe 10 years old when this happened. Mom is driving, I’m in the back seat. It’s night. She’s trying to cross a busy L.A. thoroughfare, […]
