by LZ Granderson The Alamo and the Riverwalk are the landmarks most associated with San Antonio, but they don’t tell you as much about the city as […]
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Capito joins other GOP senators to reintroduce bill to deter sanctuary cities
MORGANTOWN — In March, the state Legislature passed a bill (HB 2008) to prohibit sanctuary cities from springing up across the state. Now, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito […]
Republicans must get over their fear of Medicare
by Karl W. Smith Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy sent a letter last week to President Joe Biden in which he admonished the White House for […]
WV Manufacturers Association joins groups from 5 states urging EPA to expedite state-permitting plans for carbon capture and storage projects
MORGANTOWN — While the Biden administration has openly expressed support for curbing greenhouse gas emissions through carbon capture and sequestration projects, many believe Biden’s EPA is dragging […]
House GOP now have a way to shut down programs they don’t like
by Charles Tiefer The slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives recently voted to give itself a streamlined way to fire civil servants and shut down […]
Conservative values cast aside, Congress wages war on ‘woke’
While we’ve been largely focused on what’s been happening in Charleston lately, we’ve also had our eye on Washington, D.C., and the culture war backlash happening there. […]
McCarthy resorts to cynical stunts
by Nicholas Goldberg To hear the Republicans tell it, the U.S. Constitution has been beaten, buffeted and willfully misconstrued by radical socialists and liberal Democrats who hope […]
AG Morrisey co-leads multistate suit against EPA Waters of the U.S. rule, also opposed by agriculture and business organizations
MORGANTOWN – State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is again leading a multistate lawsuit against a Biden administration agency rule, again alleging Biden is illegally bypassing Congress to […]
Why doesn’t Sen. Capito support more clean water?
We find it mind-boggling when West Virginia politicians — ones who have grown up here, not just swooped in to fill an elected office — don’t support […]
GOP’s Twitter-FBI conspiracy theory has finally blown up in their faces
The Republican obsession with proving Twitter conspired with Democrats and the FBI against conservatives boomeranged during a House hearing last week, exposing the wispiness of one of […]