The U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s wrongheaded decision to allow more media consolidation. This comes amid a crisis in local journalism, an epidemic of misinformation […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
Mon school board should reconsider dance-less prom
Whether the Monongalia County Board of Education meant it seriously or facetiously, the members may have been on to something when they floated the idea of letting prom-goers do the […]
Voting is a right
Georgia’s new voting laws — many of which could rightfully be called voter suppression laws — have dominated national headlines recently. But West Virginia has its own questionable voting law […]
Appearances matter
The City of Morgantown is getting a lesson in the importance of appearances. International Association of Firefighters Local 313 has accused the city of retaliating against Morgantown’s firefighters by cutting […]
Pump the brakes on income tax repeal
There are three — three! — state income tax repeal proposals in Charleston right now, all of them vastly different, and only four days left in the Legislature’s regular session. […]
Vaccine clinics at schools can solve multiple problems
A new report about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected Los Angeles Unified schools doesn’t contain much that wasn’t already known: The past year was an academic calamity for hundreds of […]
Don’t scrap the filibuster. Mend it
The Senate will soon be asked to vote on contentious bills to tighten gun controls and reform the country’s electoral systems. As things stand, these and other measures, strenuously opposed […]
Pandemic not over yet
Vaccines don’t mean we can throw caution to the wind as fourth wave looms After almost two months of consistent decline, West Virginia is starting to see a spike in […]
Cameras build public trust in Chauvin trial
The eyes of the world are on Minneapolis. On its citizens, as they react to the trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd last year in a killing […]
We need gun reform now. It can’t be put off any longer
We’d like to have a conversation about practical ways to protect people from gun violence. Which may be easier said than done considering our Legislature is so “gun”-ho (pun fully […]
