by Dr. Clay Marsh Dear Students, COVID-19 has turned our world upside-down and limited many treasured parts of the West Virginia University experience. Safe, effective COVID vaccines […]
Guest Essays
Guest essay: Strengthen our democracy. Deliver on the For the People Act
by Natalie Tennant The foundations of our democracy have been under attack in recent years. Some of these assaults have been overt, such as foreign meddling in […]
Guest essay: Expand the Neighborhood Investment Program
by Patty Ryan Most people who don’t work in the nonprofit community in West Virginia are unfamiliar with the Neighborhood Investment Program (NIP). The NIP is a […]
Guest Essay: Don’t be an April Fool — call before you start to dig
By Charlotte R. Lane April is full of surprises. Spring flowers pop up all around us. You may hear hungry little chirps coming from a nest near […]
Guest Essay: No strange bedfellows: Tax cut isn’t about politics
by Bill Cole and Woody Thrasher We hear the talk about how politics makes for strange bedfellows. Maybe none stranger than the two of us now going […]
Guest Essay: A team approach to defeat opioid abuse
by Patrick Morrisey Opioid abuse is a blight that has impacted thousands of West Virginians — a deadly scourge so large that beating it will require a […]
GUEST ESSAY: As ‘normalcy’ returns, food banks still need community’s help
by Cynthia Kirkhart and J. Chad Morrison The last year has really taught us all a lot about ourselves. That we are resilient, giving and able to […]
If you (re)build it, they will stay
by Delegates Joey Garcia and John Williams As we hope for a renewed sense of normalcy in the Spring of Year 2 A.C. (After Covid), the enduring […]
Why I stayed, when so many leave
by Rachel Byrne Gov. Jim Justice released his proposal to make changes to our state’s tax system a little over two weeks ago. This proposal, which the […]
Education by eminent domain: Charter bill attacks local control
by Fred Albert West Virginians have always gone our own way, always prizing local democracy over government bureaucracy. Nowhere is that more evident than with our neighborhood […]
