by Amber Tichnell I know this is a very difficult time for our state, country and world. I’d like to speak to you as a minority that […]
Tag: anti-mask
Sept. 19 letters to the editor
Protestors shouldn’t get front-page photos It has happened again! I opened the paper Saturday, Sept. 4, to find a photo of mothers in Preston County protesting the […]
Fox News is getting people killed
by Gene Collier Among this week’s harvest of factoids I unearthed looking for other factoids is that next month — Oct. 7, to be precise — marks […]
The hubris of a super-spreader event held in a hospital’s shadow
Normally, we look forward to the first WVU home football game of the season, but this year, we’re looking on with more trepidation than anything else. At […]
Masks, mandates & individual choices
Sign-wielders on Patteson Drive. Angry parents at school board meetings. “Karens” berating store employees, as seen on social media or in real life. They all have something […]
Protect right to assemble by preserving listening
by Gene Policinski Two of the least-known freedoms protected by the First Amendment — the rights of assembly and petition — are being tested in today’s rancorous, […]
After skeptics fall to COVID, people ask awkward question: Should we care?
by Danny Westneat A reader wrote in with a blunt and honest comment that I want to share, because it alludes to a shift that’s taking place […]
Another victim of our freedom fetish
by John M. Crisp You don’t have to be a scientist to muster convincing arguments in favor of commonsense measures for combating COVID-19. COVID spreads through the […]
What happened last week is patience from the vaccinated finally ran out
by Danny Westneat One thing has become clear in our on-again pandemic nightmare: We’re definitely not all in this together anymore. The latest surge in coronavirus hospitalizations […]
Aug. 15 letters to the editor
Familiar anti-immigrant talk reappearing My great-grandparents fled the oppression of Jewish people in Czarist Russia, arriving in the United States, some not entirely legally, between 1886 and […]
