Right-leaning commentators such as Connor Sen and Ben Winck are heralding the future of Amazon “company towns” as a way to lift the working class. Left-leaning commenters, […]
Editorials
Facebook’s bad days show government needs to step in
EDITOR’S NOTE: This online-only version contains additional information not found in the print or e-edition of today’s paper. It’s been a harrowing 72-or-so hours for social media […]
The local paper: Trusted source for community news
Oct. 3 to Oct. 9 marks National Newspaper Week. Of the many obscure awareness days, this one is near and dear to our hearts, for obvious reasons. […]
Hydrogen is not always clean energy
If we have any complaints about the still-pending (as of this writing) bipartisan infrastructure package, it would be the $8 billion Sen. Joe Manchin slipped in there […]
An open letter to our Congress members
Dear West Virginia’s U.S. Senators and Representatives, The residents of the state you represent — and who elected you to represent us on the national stage — […]
W.Va. shouldn’t deny transgender people health care
Last week, Lambda Legal added two more plaintiffs to its lawsuit, Fain v. Crouch, challenging West Virginia’s new law denying gender-confirming health care for transgender individuals who […]
We’ve let COVID kill more Americans than the 1918 flu pandemic
The United States has reached a devastating milestone: We’ve lost more Americans to COVID-19 than we lost to the influenza pandemic of 1918. As of this writing, […]
Thank you for supporting schools
In case you haven’t heard the good news, the excess levy for Monongalia County schools passed. When we spoke to Nancy Walker before the special election, she […]
Why does it matter if Narcan is ‘free’ if it saves someone’s life?
It started out as a picture of a sign — the kind that churches and fast food places have outside, where you place individual letter cards to […]
Hospitals are in crisis
It was hard to watch our last home football game. Not just because the Mountaineers almost gave the game away (thank goodness for the defense), but because […]
