Elections are still on our minds, with Morgantown’s council election just last week and Westover’s recent announcement it intends to move the town’s municipal election to coincide with May primaries. […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
House GOP wants to balance budget on backs of kids
House Republicans narrowly passed a bill this week that would increase the federal government’s debt ceiling in exchange for $4.8 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years that show what […]
Carlson, Lemon personified much of what’s wrong with cable news
Two of the loosest cannons in America’s cable news fleet were unceremoniously rolled overboard Monday, and the country will be better for it. Though unrelated, the sudden, simultaneous firings of […]
Council and a manager or a mayor?
We would like to thank everyone who participated in our survey from last Sunday. We received 26 responses and eight comments. Only one person chose to have their response be […]
A New Yorker till the end: Thanks and farewell to Harry Belafonte
His name would have been recognized with admiration and gratitude anywhere around the world, but Harry Belafonte was born and always made his home right here in New York City, […]
There shouldn’t be a special session for jail staffing crisis
There should not be a special session to address the jail staffing crisis. We don’t say this because we don’t support our state’s corrections officers. We say this because legislators […]
If Mon Power buys Pleasants, only the shareholders win
“So when the company makes money the profit all goes to the stockholders and management, but when they lose money (by not investing in new tech) they want bailout cash […]
When lies pay, and when they don’t
If we thought last week’s 11th-hour settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems was surprising, that was nothing compared to Monday’s shocking announcement that Tucker Carlson was fired from […]
Biden admin. notbanning gas stoves
It’s not a surprise anymore when prominent politicians focus their energies on rabble-rousing culture war battles instead of doing the hard stuff of governing, but we still feel compelled to […]
Keep up the fight against misinfo
The good news about news consumption during the 2020 election is that fewer Americans were exposed to “untrustworthy websites” — misinformation — compared with the 2016 election, according to a […]
