Good: SB 740 and SB 471 — both of which deal with digital technology and child pornography. SB 740 would make it illegal to use digital manipulation […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
Direct link between politics & teen’s death
An Oklahoma teenager died earlier this month after being beaten up during a fight with some older girls in a school bathroom. The school failed to call […]
W.Va. Senate right to advance campus food insecurity bill
House of Delegates must follow suit “My first year in college, I lost 20 pounds,” said Sen. Mike Azinger as he voted against a “hunger-free” campus bill. […]
Chicago school: $49K per student, no one’s proficient
Even unfathomable amounts of money don’t guarantee student achievement. According to the logic of Nevada’s education establishment, Spry Community Links High School in Chicago should be the […]
Dartmouth should not be alone in bringing back SAT
The standardized test, badly battered in recent years as universities moved to more holistic admissions models during the COVID pandemic, isn’t down for the count quite yet […]
Politicians’ unkept promises
The news can leave you depressed and politics can send your blood pressure through the roof — which is why most people tune out both. (If you’re […]
How legislators can protect children
One of the good bills moving through the West Virginia Legislature is SB 474, to create a “critical incident review team” to examine when a child known […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 6
Good: HB 4223 — “that the Division of Corrections provide each probationer with physical copies of their birth certificate and Social Security Administration card upon release from […]
Abortion access is popular. Legislators want to ban it entirely
There is a vocal group of extreme anti-abortion West Virginians, but despite their outsized presence in the Capitol’s halls, they are a statistical minority. Several polls show […]
10 years and one pandemic later …
Depending on how you look at it, we’re either more than a week late in congratulating Dr. Lee Smith on his imminent retirement from the Monongalia County […]