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Warner to fight D.C. ‘wokeism’ … as governor?

Mac Warner says he’s going to fight the “wokeism” and “absolute silliness” of Washington, D.C., because “We don’t want their liberal agenda, we don’t want 87,000 new IRS agents, we don’t want child mutilation, and we want parents to have control in our children’s education!” Which is why he’s running for … governor? In a lengthy speech announcing his candidacy for the highest office in West Virginia, the current secretary of state dedicated one sentence to his plans for the Mountain State — a string of generic and insubstantial buzzwords that we all ...

Strange weather becoming normal

Too many people believe that snow and cold weather are proof that “global warming” is a hoax, but no one ever said climate change meant no more snow. Rather, while winters have become more mild, the weather — when it does hit — has become more severe. As evidenced by the bomb cyclone that paralyzed the whole U.S. over Christmas, the thunderstorms that swept across the state on Thursday and the potential for another ice storm tonight. According to data gathered by USA Facts, a nonpartisan analytics organization, virtually every December in West Virginia since 2010 has been ...

Tale of 2 presidents and terrible storage

This week, it was revealed that President Joe Biden’s personal lawyers discovered some Obama-era classified documents in an office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington think tank, on Nov. 2, 2022. Biden had worked out of the office from 2017 — after he was no longer vice president — to 2019, just before he announced his candidacy for president. According to official statements, the documents were immediately turned over to the National Archives and the Department of Justice was notified. NBC News reported yesterday evening that Biden’s ...

History doesn’t repeat — it rhymes

As the idiom goes, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat. But history never really repeats — it rhymes. The players change, as do the locations. Situations may be similar — enough to feel like déjà vu — but never exactly alike. Not a replay, but an echo; not a repeat, but a rhyme. Last Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, when rioters fueled by former President Donald Trump’s election conspiracies stormed the seat of government, threatening Congress and the certification of the 2020 election. On Sunday, an ...

It’s not as simple as ‘get a job’

When frigid temperatures struck Morgantown over the Christmas weekend, organizations and volunteer groups struggled to find accommodations for 110 people who are homeless. Sixty people hunkered down in the emergency warming shelter; another 20 had been placed in hotel rooms; and 30 waited out the cold in Bartlett’s year-round shelter. Becky Rodd, coordinator of the emergency warming shelter, said the holiday deep freeze revealed a “crisis of homelessness in Morgantown.” It’s no secret that homelessness is a problem here in the city, but many of us may not have realized just ...

Editorial Encore: More money, same problems: Where to use the surplus

EDITOR'S NOTE: We took a look into our editorial archive to see what was on our minds this time last year — and found that it was many of the same things as this year. We published an editorial Jan. 9, 2022, with a list of suggestions for how to use the $394 million surplus — now closer to $2 billion. There’s more money, but the same problems persist, so we’ve adapted last year’s list with this year’s numbers. Gov. Jim Justice’s administration has been good about bringing in surpluses at the end of the fiscal year. But it’s also been notorious for squirrelling the ...