Last week, West Virginia University announced its Teachers Ascend into West Virginia program. Which is exactly what it sounds like: Ascend, but this time geared specifically toward […]
Opinion
Feb. 26 letters to the editor
Gun rights elevated over responsibilities After several unsuccessful attempts, campus carry in West Virginia is close to becoming a reality. The right to bear arms, written into […]
Ohio’s train derailment the real national security threat
by Brad Martin and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg Earlier this month, a threat with potentially serious consequences for the long-term national security of the United States presented itself — […]
Movies and music: Watching ‘Elvis’ film, visiting Graceland brought mom back to me
by Cathy Cassata At my mom’s wake in 2007, my siblings and I decided to play Elvis Presley’s music quietly in the background. We wanted her friends […]
Putin’s disinformation machine is unrelenting
by Jim Warren No sooner had President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine last Monday than the Russian state news agency Tass berated the surprise visit to “his […]
COLUMN: WVU’s loss to No. 3 Kansas was 23 seconds of frustration, 39 minutes of potential
MORGANTOWN — Just 23 seconds separated the WVU men’s basketball team from a possible historic moment inside Allen Fieldhouse. That, in itself, is a sign of just […]
Risks of increased vaccine hesitancy
One of the lingering — and potentially disastrous — effects of the COVID pandemic is that more parents are reluctant to have their children vaccinated against what […]
Intolerance impulse goes both ways
by Steven Roberts The intolerance impulse from the left is as odious as it is from the right. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies are wrong […]
The war on ‘woke’ is meaningless, which is why it’s so popular
by Solomon D. Stevens Right-wing politicians are on the warpath. They want to banish everything that is, as they call it, “woke.” The Florida legislature passed the […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 6
Good: SB 577 is the resurrected insulin copay cap. Last year’s iteration, HB 4252, passed both chambers, but the House didn’t concur with the Senate’s changes before […]
