A couple weeks ago, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said of President Biden and Democrats’ $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” plan: “I’m very concerned about how this will impact West Virginians and […]
Editorials
No vaccine, no football
When it comes to convincing West Virginians to get the COVID-19 vaccine, as a state, we’ve tried gentle encouragement, laying out the cold hard facts and even bribery, but less […]
Is Cary the best fit for WVU’s BOG?
All too often, we don’t pay much attention to the men and women behind the WVU curtain, but we need to take a closer look now. On June 29, Gov. […]
GOP closed border argument is flimsy
There’s a certain irony in witnessing members of a party now infamous for downplaying the severity of COVID-19 use the disease as justification to keep the southern border tightly closed. […]
One step forward, 2 steps back
The good news last week was Milan Puskar Health Right finally received the sharps containers it ordered over a year ago; the bad news was a judge dissolved the West […]
DeJoy plan will hurt small, already struggling papers
At the end of August, the next phase of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to overhaul (read: destroy) the U.S. Postal Service will take effect. In this phase, which was […]
Tell lawmakers no gerrymandering
As we discussed in this space at the end of June, the West Virginia Legislature has assembled its Joint Committee on Redistricting. The committee, consisting of 24 Republicans and nine […]
Anti-sex ed delegate posts explicit TikTok
The big scandal in West Virginia over the weekend came at the hands of Delegate Joe Jeffries, R-Putnam, who posted a sexually explicit video on TikTok (a social media platform […]
Supreme Court says child slave labor OK …
… as long as it happens outside the United States In a rather disappointing June decision, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Nestle USA (a subsidiary of the Swiss-based Nestle, […]
Gov.’t can fund SpaceX but not infrastructure?
There’s a fine line between a public-private partnership and a government handout. A private-public partnership would be akin to the West Virginia Legislature approving $37 million in surplus state funds […]
