Most debates about public education in West Virginia  will eventually include the subject of money. Is public education underfunded? Should our outcomes be better considering how much we spend? How […]

West Virginia is one of the states hit hardest by the opioid crisis.  The American Enterprise Institute estimates the annual cost to the state is $8.8 billion annually. Criminal and […]

Gov. Jim Justice, Senate President Mitch Carmichael and House Speaker Roger Hanshaw have met to try to find common ground on the most contentious issues heading into the special legislative […]

  In January, I wrote that U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin was once again considering running for governor of West Virginia.  T he column, subsequent reporting and interviews given by the […]

Do you ever wonder how your state income taxes are spent?  Of course you do, and now there is a helpful tool on the website of State Auditor J.B. McCuskey […]

It often feels like everything is just a little bit harder in West Virginia,  and public education is no different.  The state Constitution requires that our school system provide a […]

Gov. Jim Justice’s road to re-election  is hitting some bumps, and they are not just the potholes in the state roads that he has promised to fix. No, these bumps […]

Last week, Gov. Jim Justice told Division of Highways county supervisors and district engineers that he wanted prioritized lists of all the road work necessary, as well as their equipment […]

It is possible that an objective reader  of the summary of the Mueller Report would agree that the investigation includes both good news and bad news. The bad new is […]

The late Don Marsh,  who co-hosted “Talkline” with me for a few years after he retired from his longtime position as editor of the Charleston Gazette, was fearless and caustic […]