Most West Virginians — in fact most Americans — typically don’t think much about the price of diesel fuel. That is because our primary contact with fuel prices is at the gas station. In West Virginia, just over 4% of all light-duty vehicles are diesel-powered. So, for the average West ...
Senate negotiators last week unveiled a compromise bill that, if passed, would constitute the most important reform to the American energy sector in generations. Unfortunately, the same forces that defeated previous permitting reform packages — primarily left-wing interest groups — are threatening to smother this legislation. Democrats would be wise to ignore the naysayers and take the win. The package is enormous in scope and full of good ideas to boost every variety of energy development. That’s crucial, given the soaring demand for new electricity to power the artificial ...
On Friday, Donald Trump drove home his belief that might is right and the rule of law is an obstacle rather than an essential foundation stone of international order. First came the escalated assault on the international criminal court (ICC), sanctioning the body itself. Then he announced a deal with Russia to buy diesel. The US has long chafed at the notion of being bound by the rule of law that it espoused publicly. That hypocrisy now appears as a lesser vice. The president has declared that “my own morality” is all that constrains him. His brazen flouting of the law, embrace of ...
There are now more registered Republican voters than Democrats in Logan County. The latest figures from the Secretary of State’s office show there are 7,707 Republicans, 7,699 Democrats and 3,808 Independents. Logan joins Boone County as the latest of the once deep blue southern West ...
Pressed recently on President Donald Trump’s expulsion of three news organizations from the White House, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) shrugged it off as indistinguishable from Trump’s own past suspension from social media platforms, saying, “So it goes both ways.” Huh? The senator is either remarkably ignorant of the Constitution from which he derives his power, or shameless enough to pretend to be. What Barrasso didn’t appear to understand is that the First Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, doesn’t go both ways: It protects us from the government, not ...
Those struggling to find employment in our region already know what a recent report by the National Federation of Independent Business spells out. Hiring has slowed down — everywhere; and jobs that are available require education or skillsets that not everyone has. According to the group’s September jobs report, a seasonally adjusted 32% of owners do report they have job openings they cannot fill. But that is down from August. “Hiring has slowed on West Virginia’s Main Street as small employers continue to report challenges finding qualified workers for their open ...
