Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has backtracked on his previous suggestion that states in financial trouble should simply go bankrupt and now says he is “open” to […]
Guest Editorials
Widespread testing won’t end pandemic if it is inaccurate
A surge of new coronavirus antibody tests, some of them used in studies that appear to show a far greater rate of infection and recovery than we’d […]
Clean up COVID-19 mess aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt
Sailors go through boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago, Ill., but things are different due to COVID-19. The current class of recruits was […]
Assault accusation needs independent investigation
As he prepares to claim the Democratic presidential nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden is rightly being exhorted to make a fuller and more public response to […]
Trump’s meat supply fix is a recipe for disaster
Dozens of beef, chicken and pork processing and packing plants have shut down across the nation as COVID-19 infections soar among workers. More plants are on the […]
Smartphone tracking done right can save us
A month after Singapore responded to the coronavirus pandemic by encouraging residents to put an app on their smartphones that would notify them if they had been […]
Remembering Ralph Brem, former editor
By Ron Iannone Sadly, I lost one of my best friends yesterday: Ralph Brem, the former editor of The Dominion Post. I will miss our weekly breakfasts […]
California town has COVID-19 testing program we need
It’s galling that celebrities, professional athletes and politicians without symptoms were able to use their connections and wealth to score COVID-19 tests early in the pandemic, when […]
COVID-19 economic crisis highlights problems with Longview PILOT
by Kelly Allen Over the past several months, the Monongalia County Commission has been negotiating a “payment in lieu of taxes” (PILOT) deal with Longview Power LLC […]
We live in a microbial world
By James G. Thomas My love affair with microbes and viruses began as a college student in Vermont, 1963, reviewing a speech by JFK concerning man walking […]