West Virginia 2nd District Republican Congressman Alex Mooney is leapfrogging his campaign for reelection in November and going right after Sen. Joe Manchin in 2024. As Josh […]
Opinion
Things to know before you decide to recall council
The effort to recall all seven members of Morgantown City Council has stepped up a notch. It seems the more than a month of word-of-mouth recruitment hasn’t […]
Nearly 87,000 new IRS employees
by Byron York You’ve probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act — the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats — includes provisions to hire […]
‘Dare we hope?’ Preserving rights takes work
“Dare we hope?” That was the rather plaintive response of a man on Twitter when news broke that Kansas voters had rejected an attempt to remove the […]
Get ready — WVU students coming to Morgantown
In case you haven’t noticed the uptick in traffic or the proliferation of fresh-faced youth in the grocery stores — West Virginia University students are coming back […]
How Joe Manchin got his superpowers
by Nicholas Goldberg By what possible definition of democracy is it OK for Joe Manchin, a single senator elected with a mere 290,000 votes from the tiny […]
Back to school 2022
As parents prepare to send their children back to school, many will have made decisions about their child’s education that will not only put them on a […]
Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols, American heroes
There’s a reason for the simultaneous mourning and celebration of the lives of a basketball player and an actress, both out of the public eye for years. […]
What happens when TikTok is your main source of news and information
by Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv On TikTok you’re liable to find restaurant recommendations, lip-syncing snippets and false claims stating that COVID-19 vaccines contain aborted fetal tissue […]
What an uprising in Kansas means for abortion in other red states
by Aisha Sultan The conservative “pro-life” movement managed to do something that abortion-rights activists have been trying to do for decades — they have destroyed the stigma […]
