The Biden administration announced two important steps that should bolster the nation’s recovery from the pandemic. Last Tuesday, the White House said it would lift travel restrictions at the borders […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
Crucial gear gone from finely tuned global supply chain
Until the spring of 2020, global commerce functioned like a finely tuned machine consisting of thousands if not millions of gears, all meshing in perfect sequence. A cargo ship leaving […]
Season of giving starts
It’s not even Halloween yet, and we’re already being bombarded with Christmas commercials on TV, Christmas decorations in stores and a new slate of Christmas movies on Hallmark (again — […]
House map looks gerrymandered to us
The West Virginia Legislature is winding down its redistricting sessions, and the maps coming out of it aren’t pretty. The north/south Congressional map isn’t awful. It puts both panhandles in […]
Introducing a new kind of dress code violation
There was a bit of drama at the Preston County Board of Education meeting at the beginning of the week (which is, unfortunately, becoming the norm nationwide). The Preston BOE […]
The underestimated value of conversation
By its very nature, the written word is not the best vehicle for a conversation. Texting has brought it as close to real-time dialogue as writing can get, but written […]
The only ‘baby’ Justice should refer to is his dog
Last Thursday, Gov. Jim Justice made a spectacle of himself when he went on a five-minute rant disparaging Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin and her legitimate request for the state to […]
Democrats need to prioritize, not give fiscal evasions
As they prepare to spend $1.2 trillion on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, along with a vastly larger sum on a party-line social-policy bill, Democrats might be expected to defend their […]
Let Abu Zubaydah testify about years of U.S. torture
Supreme Court justices appeared to agree on Wednesday that it’s time for the longest-held U.S. detainee at Guantánamo Bay to tell his story in court. The prisoner, Zain al-Abidine Muhammad […]
Goodbye Columbus Day, hello Indigenous People’s Day
On Oct. 1, two members of the Human Rights Commission, Don Spencer and Bonnie Brown, met with The Dominion Post Editorial Board to discuss the commission’s proposal to Morgantown City […]
