It never made much sense to affix Braxton Bragg’s name to one of the U.S. Army’s major installations, Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Bragg, born in 1817 […]
Opinion
System keeps bad apples on forces
As so many progressive-minded policing experts have noted, the stars are aligned in a once-in-a-generation moment for major systemic reform. The inclination to shoot for the moon […]
Don’t bungle the ending of the U.S.’s longest war
America’s war in Afghanistan has dragged on too long. But the U.S. domestic political calendar shouldn’t dictate when to end it. Under the peace agreement signed with […]
June 14 letters to the editor
History is repeating; vote for real change On June 6, there was a demonstration here in Morgantown in support of Black Lives Matter. It happened to be […]
What ‘defund the police’ really means
You’ve likely seen it on the news, painted on protestors’ signs, chanted at marches or circulated on social media in the form of a hashtag: Defund the […]
‘A republic, if you can keep it’: A nation in turmoil
The story goes that, at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention of 1789, Benjamin Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall in Philadelphia when a woman shouted […]
Racism, comments on social media can hurt business
It was a lovely spring weekend for calling out Maryland business owners for statements condemned as racist at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement continued […]
Mountaineers wear their face masks in public
This is a friendly reminder from your local newspaper that — in the midst of all the other insanity taking place — we are still in the […]
Will home farming survive life returning to normal?
Farm-to-table refers to freshly grown produce — that is, fruits and vegetables not transported from some distant time zone or even hemisphere but recently harvested on boutique […]
Twitter mobs won’t bring racial justice
Last week gave us more reason to believe that our president is an illiberal authoritarian, much like Vladimir Putin and the other overseas autocrats he admires. Faced […]
