On Monday, Westover City Councilor Ralph Mullins called for an independent investigation into the various controversies surrounding the Westover Council and police department. Councilor Duane Tatar responded, “Are you going […]
Editorials
Vaccine exemption bill exempt from common sense
“Frankly, I think this hearkens back [to] Nazi Germany.” The above quote came from West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, as he spoke in favor of the bill […]
Manchin is holding Congress hostage, but the ransom won’t help W.Va.
No single senator should have the power to hold Congress hostage. We said the same thing when Sen. Mitch McConnell was Senate majority leader and could kill a bill just […]
Season of giving starts
It’s not even Halloween yet, and we’re already being bombarded with Christmas commercials on TV, Christmas decorations in stores and a new slate of Christmas movies on Hallmark (again — […]
House map looks gerrymandered to us
The West Virginia Legislature is winding down its redistricting sessions, and the maps coming out of it aren’t pretty. The north/south Congressional map isn’t awful. It puts both panhandles in […]
Introducing a new kind of dress code violation
There was a bit of drama at the Preston County Board of Education meeting at the beginning of the week (which is, unfortunately, becoming the norm nationwide). The Preston BOE […]
The underestimated value of conversation
By its very nature, the written word is not the best vehicle for a conversation. Texting has brought it as close to real-time dialogue as writing can get, but written […]
The only ‘baby’ Justice should refer to is his dog
Last Thursday, Gov. Jim Justice made a spectacle of himself when he went on a five-minute rant disparaging Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin and her legitimate request for the state to […]
Goodbye Columbus Day, hello Indigenous People’s Day
On Oct. 1, two members of the Human Rights Commission, Don Spencer and Bonnie Brown, met with The Dominion Post Editorial Board to discuss the commission’s proposal to Morgantown City […]
What is going on in Westover?
While the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020 put racism and inequity in the national spotlight, another key feature of the protests was highlighting police brutality and government corruption. […]
