by Iver Mindel In the late 1980s, on a school day in early March at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County, classes were suspended for a day. […]
Opinion
West Virginia State University deserves better from its president
The last year has been a rough one for West Virginia State University. The land-grant institution and one of the country’s Historically Black Colleges has had to, […]
COLUMN: Texas was already being paid more than SEC schools long before it announced it was moving on from the Big 12
MORGANTOWN — It is a simple matter of math, and in this case, it’s math that doesn’t exactly add up where it concerns Texas leaving the Big […]
Bankrupted by medical debt
American health care is too expensive. Exhibit A is a new study of Americans’ medical debt published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That debt […]
Why are so many Republicans refusing vaccines? Because Russia told them to
by Lee McIntyre What is the difference between doubt and distrust? Doubt can be overcome by evidence. Distrust cannot. According to a recent Washington Post poll, refusal […]
Voters really do want order on the southern border
With COVID-19 receding — at least in vaccinated parts of the country — but crime hanging on, law and order looks to be a leading issue in […]
Dale Miller says goodbye, but his legacy continues
It’s not the brick and mortar that makes the town; it’s the people. And one of Morgantown’s key players since 1977 is stepping back and into a […]
Calif.’s controversial law back in crosshairs
by Nicholas Goldberg Three years ago, the California Legislature passed a bill requiring public companies to put women on their corporate boards. The bill set specific quotas, […]
We can’t endanger lives of the many to humor misconceptions of the few
We were almost there. That’s the most frustrating thing about the most recent announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that even those who are […]
Delta brings masks back into fashion
As effective as the COVID-19 vaccines have been, the pandemic has taken an unfortunate turn in recent weeks. New cases and hospitalizations are no longer in decline […]
