by Lawrence Goldstone The Roberts court’s record for safeguarding voting rights is hardly impressive. Rather than view access to the ballot box as fundamental to a healthy democracy, the Supreme […]
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The death toll from conservative politicization of the pandemic
With light apparently at the end of the coronavirus tunnel, this is a good time to soberly assess how America handled the pandemic and can better handle whatever new wave […]
PCYC after-school program starts
The Preston County Youth Center’s after-school program is in full swing. Director Glen Larew said the first week the program had 25 unique kids, with about 15 showing up each […]
Long range transportation planning document available for public review
MORGANTOWN — After nine months and some 1,300 public participants, the long-range vision for the Greater Morgantown Area’s transportation future is available for public review. A draft version of the […]
March 20 letters to the editor
Traveling back in time, repeating mistakes I am writing this letter for the benefit of younger people who were not around in the 1970s. At present time, we are going […]
How can we enjoy our lives here in the U.S. when life is hell for Ukrainians?
by Stephen J. Lyons Two weekends ago, crocuses bloomed in our Midwest garden. Temperatures reached 70 degrees. In the middle of the night, we experienced our first thunderstorm. Any day […]
Unforced GOP errors could help Democrats
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The Democrats face a tough fight to retain their tenuous hold on the U.S. Senate, but they’ve gotten some unexpected help in recent weeks — from […]
The IRS must be properly funded; here’s why
by Alexander R.M. Boyle The Internal Revenue Service is the government agency that taxpayers “love to hate,” but starving it to death is bad for the country. The Biden administration’s […]
Free speech and press need freedom of information
by Kevin Goldberg “The right to speak and the right to print, without the right to know, are pretty empty.” These are the words of Harold Cross, author of “The […]
W.Va.’s mine wars weren’t as clear-cut as they seemed
Bullets snapped the air, breaking branches and kicking dirt. Biplanes droned overhead, and when the pipe bombs dropped by their pilots actually went off like they were supposed to, the […]
