No tricks, only polite ghosts and goblins We must live in the wrong neighborhood. All of the complaining about today’s children being spoiled, self-centered and disrespectful to […]
Opinion
Guest essay: Remember W.Va.’s state motto
by John Overington Sen. Joe Manchin and I are unique in that for over most of the last third of a century, we have represented the people […]
Considering wait-and-see approach to vaccine? Don’t
by Mona Gahunia On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all children 5 to 11 receive the low-dose COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech, […]
GOP can be for Medicaid expansion
by Sara Pequeño More than 1 in 10 people in North Carolina are living without health insurance. They’re working in construction, retail or manufacturing. They’re cooks and […]
Local news hangs in the balance
by Steven Waldman The Senate is now deciding the fate of local news. As part of the Build Back Better Act, the Senate is in the next […]
For Dems, ‘not Trump’ not enough
by Nolan Finley An off-year election isn’t a reliable weathervane to predict what’s going to happen in next year’s mid-terms — and certainly not for the 2024 […]
Quality education is how W.Va. climbs the ranks
It wasn’t a revolutionary announcement. Or maybe it was. West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission has made robotics a recognized co-curricular activity, like football and marching band. […]
Texas politicians micromanaging business
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott talks big about his love, love, love for private enterprise — how his state doesn’t tax big incomes and regulates with a light […]
What people think of Major League Baseball’s C-suite cowardice
Last April, when Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game out of suburban Atlanta in what it thought was a strident example of the powerful corporate punishment […]
A dangerous fallacy: ‘If they’re polluting, why shouldn’t we?’
It’s an old fallacious argument — a variation of the bandwagon fallacy (“everyone else is doing it”) that goes like this: Everyone else is misbehaving, so why […]
