West Virginia is on the verge of losing one third of our voice in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Census Bureau released its final population estimates […]
Opinion
The session is underway … so now what?
The 2020 regular session of the Legislature is underway. The question most often asked is, “What’s going to happen?” Well, predictions about what 134 politicians will do […]
Did Trump walk into a trap?
Without (initially) firing a shot, Iran appears to have executed a devastating revenge attack against the United States for the killing of Gen. Qassem Suleimani. Using Iraq’s […]
Tone-deaf Democrats risk handing western Pa. to Trump
Darrin Kelly, president of the powerful Allegheny-Fayette County Central Labor Council, says that not one of the Democratic candidates running for president has reached out to him […]
Jan. 9 letters to the editor
Supporting efforts to heal region’s raptors I read the article in Monday’s The Dominion Post about the red shouldered hawk that was shot near Krepps Park. It […]
Anxiety grips leaderless America in wake of events
George W. Bush and Barack Obama both had Gen. Qassem Soleimani in their gunsights. Neither ordered the trigger pulled because of the enormous risks involved in killing […]
Jan. 8 letters to the editor
Best option is not to believe Iran war hysteria I’ve again started to hear the drumbeat of war, this time with Iran. It reminds me of the […]
Candidate filings to kickoff election cycle in earnest for 2020
And we thought coping with five Mondays in December was a grind. Next week, it all begins on Monday and lasts until 11:59 p.m. Jan. 25. That […]
Add Iran’s leadership to ash heap of history
Addressing the British Parliament in 1982, President Ronald Reagan outlined a plan for placing the Soviet Union and Marxism-Leninism on the “ash heap of history.” It is […]
Apathy appears to have faded
Then-candidate Donald Trump told a mostly white rally crowd in Michigan in 2016 that “at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get […]
