Election Day is different for everyone. For some people, today dawned with great fanfare — a kind of big brass band of excitement. Others awakened and heard the somber […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
It won’t be easy to kick your sugar habit, but it’ll save your life
A spoonful of sugar makes your life span go down. That’s the conclusion of one study conducted by researchers at Harvard, which found that having too many sugary drinks could […]
Trump may be most memorable for his lies
For those who occasionally have dared me to say something nice about President Donald Trump, here you go: His first — and, I pray, only — term in office has […]
Dear Supreme Court: Let the people vote
At a time when its legitimacy as an apolitical institution is being questioned, the Supreme Court has been dragged into partisan disputes about when and how ballots should be […]
Guest Essay: To lower emissions, China and U.S. must cooperate
by Dr. Syd s. Peng China runs on coal. Without it, China never would have achieved the staggering economic growth of recent decades. But China is envisioning a new, emissions-free […]
Reminder: Your vote matters
You’re probably sick of hearing this — goodness knows we’re getting tired of saying it — but we would fail to complete our civic duty if we didn’t say […]
Nov. 1 letters to the editor
Another reader misses the daily paper I totally agree with the recent letter to the editor from Judy Harder of Kingwood (DP-10-25-20). I, too, love having my newspaper every morning […]
Kavanaugh about to get more powerful
The confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett means that Chief Justice John Roberts is no longer the Supreme Court’s swing voter. Roberts had a good run in the seat of […]
Art, public spaces and a pandemic
On Wednesday, a photograph graced our front page of the new mural at the Morgantown Mall, near the food court entrance: Gold and blue like the blood of die-hard […]
Yes, we are already transitioning from fossil fuels
Joe Biden could have used more careful wording at that debate, but his talk of shifting the economy from fossil fuels to cleaner energy reflected a process well on […]
