Forty people showed up for a Black Lives Matter march in Kingwood over the weekend. Sixty people showed up in opposition. Both sides brought guns. One guy came wearing a […]
Editorials
The university is to Morgantown as the Vatican is to Rome
“The university is devoted to being a good citizen,” Gordon Gee, president of West Virginia University, said when he sat down (virtually) with members of The Dominion Post Editorial Board […]
Swearengin for Senate
The Dominion Post would like to thank Sen. Shelley Moore Capito for her years of service in government, but it’s time for a fresh face. We still love the […]
What we forgot when we promised to never forget
We swore to never forget. And we have not forgotten. Nineteen years has dulled the pain to a dull ache, turned the absence from a void that swallows us whole […]
Fascism rising: Losing the ‘we’ in ‘We, the People’
“Fascism scholar says U.S. is ‘losing its democratic status’ ” read the NPR headline from over the weekend. The interview with Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale and […]
Stop finger pointing – make it work
It’s a case of he said/she said, but while Secretary of State Mac Warner’s office and Monongalia County Clerk Carye Blaney’s office point fingers at each other, voters are left […]
COVID-19 numbers should include athletes, commuters
We reported Wednesday that West Virginia University has 140 students who are isolated due to positive COVID-19 results and 472 additional students quarantining because of close contact with COVID positive […]
Will city’s eminent domain offer just compensation?
When a private citizen takes government property, a federal crime — it’s generally called “theft” — but when the government takes private property, it’s called “eminent domain.” According to the […]
Which is the party of racists again?
In both social and traditional media, some conservatives have been quick to point out that slavery, segregation, the KKK and Jim Crow were all Democrat-supported institutions. While not technically untrue, […]
Nothing justifies Bledsoe’s uncivil ‘satanic’ remark
Is it satanic for performers in drag to read to children during a story hour at the Morgantown Public Library? Is it satanic to vote against the Born Alive Abortion […]
