Influenza — the flu — is more than a bad cold. Seasonal outbreaks mean not only misery but increased hospital admissions and deaths. The last flu season, […]
Opinion
Go to front of the bus to Canada for lower insulin prices
Riders can sign up and pay the $100 ride cost at: insulincaravan.eventsmart.com/events/caravan-to-canada. You don’t need to bribe your way into a camel caravan of smugglers to buy […]
How small cities and towns can right their ship
Several large pieces of cobalt-blue glass panels bearing “Don’t Give Up the Ship” and a bold likeness of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry lay broken at the top […]
Oct. 17 letters to the editor
Subdivision regulations: Better late than never The Monongalia County Commission has considered the adoption of subdivision regulations on and off for 50 years. For decades our fast-growing […]
Do our supermarket aisles really qualify as racist?
My supermarket has a giant “international” food aisle dominated by Asian and Latino products. Which items end up in a section dedicated to a particular foreign culture’s […]
Oct. 16 letters to the editor
Republicans who back Trump on wrong side In a land and a world where common sense has been vandalized, there is still the passage of time, and […]
Public forums offer chance to reset our focus on drug crisis
“What shall we do then?” It’s a question that spans the ages on complex issues about the social condition. That quote above is found in Luke, Chapter […]
Some new insight into ‘facts’ about media bias
Since colonial days the press has been a target of those who believe journalists have a point of view that shapes their reporting. There have been numerous […]
Audubon has quantified threat
For serious birders who regularly observe birds in the wild, ignoring climate change isn’t possible. We have been seeing and documenting the effects of a warming climate […]
Attendance still key to learning and to teaching in schools
“The bottom line is, we’re all missing too much school.” That’s how Steve Paine, the state superintendent of schools, described the issue of absenteeism among West Virginia’s […]
