The Senate will soon be asked to vote on contentious bills to tighten gun controls and reform the country’s electoral systems. As things stand, these and other […]
Opinion
$1.7T goof would’ve paid for infrastructure
by Will Bunch A Ferrari is surely a wonderful sports car, but let’s be honest: Most of us couldn’t afford the day-to-day maintenance, let alone the sticker […]
Rediscovering America: What do you know about our tax system?
by Robert Wyllie “Tax Day,” the filing deadline for individual federal tax returns, is normally April 15, but it was extended this year until May 17. The […]
Pandemic not over yet
Vaccines don’t mean we can throw caution to the wind as fourth wave looms After almost two months of consistent decline, West Virginia is starting to see […]
April 4 letters to the editor
Proposed laws will drive out more people Every day I wake up with the same sense of dread of what the West Virginia Legislature is going to […]
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: How does the Legislature measure success?
by Sen. Mike Caputo and Delegate Kayla Young Many aspects of our lives have changed in the past year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We […]
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 […]
Does GOP bill assume white fragility? Or whitewash history?
by Rekha Basu One thing we might all agree on is there’s no shortage of subjects on which to disagree. Guns, politics and religion; differing ideologies on […]