Last week, public health nurses with the Monongalia County Health Department underwent LGBTQ+ “safe zone” training. The adjacent term “safe space” is too often met with eyerolls […]
Opinion
Socking Trump’s enablers in the wallet
by Mark Z. Barabak As the holiday season begins, let’s raise a glass, a drumstick, a latke — or all three! — to a magistrate judge in […]
Isn’t it rich? A farewell to Sondheim
The death of composer Stephen Sondheim at 91 is more than the end of an era. It is the end of a chain of great Broadway musicals […]
Old infrastructure is a real problem; new law necessary
Flooding in East Village and on Interstate 5 in downtown San Diego last week after two water mains broke Nov. 21 created both huge headaches for drivers […]
Putin takes foreign policy spotlight
by Doyle McManus President Joe Biden arrived in the White House 10 months ago with two top foreign policy priorities: He wanted to rebuild the alliances his […]
Critical race theory controversy has decades-old roots
by Fred L. Pincus The current controversy over critical race theory in the schools is nothing new. Thirty-seven years ago, I published an article with the headline […]
A strategy to fight veteran suicides
The White House’s latest effort to tackle the difficult problem of suicide among the military and veterans may be the comprehensive approach that’s sorely needed. It could […]
The world asks #WhereIsPengShuai?
by Trudy Rubin China disappeared star tennis player Peng Shuai because she accused a top leader of sexual assault, but her fate will affect the Olympics and […]
Americans aren’t used to not working
Amazing to read that over 4 million Americans quit their jobs in September — part of a mass labor pullout being called the Great Resignation. The social […]
Turn AMD into cash
The Dominion Post reported Nov. 16 that the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Energy was briefed by Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of WVU’s Water Research Institute, on a […]
