MORGANTOWN – Two local watershed groups are looking forward to opportunities to receive new federal infrastructure money to support their missions of stream preservation and community enhancement. […]
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Is long-overdue anti-lynching law finally heading for passage?
At last, Congress appears poised to designate lynching as a federal hate crime punishable with enhanced penalties. The House last month passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act […]
State Senate adopts resolution rescinding 1972 ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment
MORGANTOWN – A divided state Senate on Friday adopted a resolution to rescind the state’s prior ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The fate of the ERA […]
For the sake of national unity, don’t block this Court nomination
Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement offers Republicans a real opportunity. No, not the opportunity to install yet another hard-right conservative on […]
In voting rights battle, moderate Republicans allowed to duck issue
by Tonja Jacobi and Warren Snead At a time when Republican leadership has come to tolerate, or even embrace, Donald Trump’s “big lie,” 19 states have acted […]
GO-WV marks first anniversary at winter meeting, hears from state’s D.C. lawmakers about fossil fuel issues
MORGANTOWN – GO-WV – the Gas & Oil Association of West Virginia – celebrated its first anniversary during its winter meeting this week, and welcomed comments delivered […]
Jan. 16 letters to the editor
Greeting the new year with skepticism It is the time for looking forward to the coming year: Trepidation and dystopian? Optimism, even utopian? Fear, or longing for […]
No peace or goodwill in Congress
Peace on Earth and goodwill to men this time of year seems increasingly absent in diverse places. In America the noble objective seems to have long ago […]
Disappointing 2022 Pentagon budget
by Elizabeth Shackelford On Dec. 15, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual legislation authorizing the yearly defense budget. At $768 billion, it breezed […]
Capito, McKinley comment on demise of expanded Child Tax Credit
MORGANTOWN — Whatever the fate of Build Back Better after the New Year — in whatever new form it might take — the expanded Child Tax Credit […]
