Now that the temperatures are dipping below 40 degrees, Hazel House (formerly the Ramada Inn on Scott Avenue) is preparing to expand its emergency shelter into a […]
Editorials
They still won’t do it for Babydog
It’s official — “Do It for Babydog: Round 3” is up and running, with registration open now and the first drawing scheduled for this coming week. Because […]
Agreements made at COP26 not enough
The 200 countries participating in COP26 (the 26th Conference of the Parties) in Glasglow, Scotland, hoped to have a final agreement on tackling climate change by the […]
Lawsuits oppose W.Va.’s interests
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is once again dragging West Virginia into foolhardy and counterproductive national lawsuits. One is a lawsuit to block the Occupational Safety and Health […]
Veterans Day after end of 20-year war
Veterans Day is always bittersweet — a day dedicated to living service members but that always brings to mind the brave men and women we have lost […]
McKinley supports local news
When the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the House of Representatives, Rep. David McKinley was one of 13 Republicans to vote yes. We’d like to thank him for […]
Gee lends support to UATX, a ‘safe space’ for flawed ideas
Monday’s breaking news was West Virginia University President E. Gorden Gee’s name among the list of founders and advisors for the new “University” of Austin — an […]
It’s time for another W.Va. mask mandate
After a fall surge even worse than last winter, West Virginia’s COVID-19 cases are finally trending down — for now. As the Associated Press recently reported, West […]
Quality education is how W.Va. climbs the ranks
It wasn’t a revolutionary announcement. Or maybe it was. West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission has made robotics a recognized co-curricular activity, like football and marching band. […]
A dangerous fallacy: ‘If they’re polluting, why shouldn’t we?’
It’s an old fallacious argument — a variation of the bandwagon fallacy (“everyone else is doing it”) that goes like this: Everyone else is misbehaving, so why […]
