I started the week determined to become the perfect home-schooling parent. What could possibly go wrong? My great-niece, who lives with me, would work on her laptop. […]
Opinion
Justice’s Saturday speech clear as mud; Monday not as bad
Bless his heart, but Justice is not a great orator. True, in a time like this, actions speak louder than words. But by the same token, in […]
Stop passing the blame: Viruses do not carry passports
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 […]
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 […]
