Viruses do not carry passports. Nor do they have birth certificates or other markers of citizenship. So the insistence of Donald Trump and other Republicans upon identifying […]
Opinion
Shame leaders who treat coronavirus as a joke
President Donald Trump is not the only populist leader who initially minimized the coronavirus pandemic, wasting precious time to prepare his country for the crisis. Several Latin […]
Thank-you note goes out to all in pandemic’s wake
Thank-you notes are a lost art. While handwritten ones are preferred, there are too many people to thank right now to send them all handwritten thank-you notes. […]
March 22 letters to the editor
No need for Certificates of Need What’s wrong with this picture? Two small northern West Virginia hospitals have been bought — to be closed — in the […]
Waging war on fake news
We live in an age of misinformation. Propaganda disguised as reporting; politicians and public figures calling anything they disagree with “fake news”; social media allowing falsehoods to […]
W.Va. running short on doctors for Alzheimer’s, dementia
Last month I wrote a commentary about Alzheimer’s cruel toll in West Virginia. According to the West Virginia Alzheimer’s Association, 38,000 West Virginians are living with the […]
Political parties: Bad choices; bad faith
So here we are again. Our political choices have been constricted and constrained. It is only March and seemingly the die has been cast for November. We […]
Technology makes shrinking world feel a little bigger
Somehow, our communities are expanding even as they shrink. Restaurants and bars are closed down. Gyms and rec centers, too. Schools are vacant until further notice. Self-isolating […]
Portrait of an American city at the dawn of a pandemic
On Friday, James Coen is folding and unfolding, arranging and rearranging the piles of colorful St. Patrick’s Day T-shirts he has displayed on folding tables outside one […]
Criminal courts can’t pause
It’s good news that the Supreme Court has suspended oral arguments indefinitely. If nothing else, it helps keep Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg safe. Spry but still a […]