Response to letters from Callen and Efaw Michael Callen’s and Larry Efaw’s defense of President Trump’s description of COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus” (DP-03-29-20) contains misstatements of […]
Opinion
West Virginia’s jobless rate expected to soar
We will soon see the largest one-month jump in unemployment in West Virginia in the state’s history because of the pandemic. The state’s jobless rate has been […]
Tracking virus means tracking citizens
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, some democracies around the world have used technology to avoid having to impose draconian mass quarantines that were common earlier […]
Taking a moment for gratitude in midst of a crisis
Gratitude is rarely at the forefront of people’s minds in a crisis. Our brain power is usually directed toward survival. But when the dust settles or the […]
Coronavirus has even closed the Waffle House
It is early Sunday morning along one of the few congested stretches of the Lincoln Highway when an empty parking lot below the familiar cheery yellow sign […]
America still a global leader
A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the world fight against the coronavirus in its accustomed role as the postwar […]
When tax breaks hurt the middle class, not help
Have you ever listened to negotiations between local government (city, county or state) and businesses and been convinced, by the time an agreement was reached, the government […]
Coronavirus stimulus bill and the dark hole of debt
It is not cognitive dissonance — the impossibility of holding two or more contradictory beliefs simultaneously — to favor the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill passed by […]
COVID-19 changes everything, even politics
At some point — certainly not by Easter and maybe not by Easter 2021 — we will have enough space to look back and consider what we […]
Bad time for county commission to cut PCHD’s funding
Doesn’t it seem like the middle of a health crisis might be a bad time to eliminate funding for a health department? We understand that Preston County […]
