There’s something we’d like to add to Hoppy Kercheval’s below commentary, “West Virginia’s food conundrum,” so we recommend reading that first. Now that you’ve read Hoppy’s piece, here’s what we’d […]
Opinion
Court loses no matter what on gun case
by Francis Wilkinson The conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court will have to choose between depravity and farce this term. It’s an awkward situation, with a high probability of disgrace […]
West Virginia’s food conundrum
When it comes to what and how we eat in West Virginia, there is a conundrum. West Virginia is above the national average in food insecurity, which is defined by […]
Before #MeToo, there was RDVIC
This October is the 37th Domestic Violence Awareness Month — and the 50th anniversary of north-central West Virginia’s Rape and Domestic Violence Information Center. As one would expect from an […]
Immigration policies face uphill battle
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The immigration issue has hit Democratic strongholds up north, prompting new moves from the Biden administration. In both a substantive and political response, it announced it […]
Attacks on democracy hinder national security
Israelis have likened the brutal assault from Gaza to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. “At Dawn We Slept” was a title of a book about that intelligence failure. As […]
Mon Commission’s not-panhandling ordinance unlikely to work as intended
Today, the Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety Ordinance will once again be up for public comment and possibly for passage at the Monongalia County Commission meeting. The current draft ordinance can […]
GOP plans to choose new speaker with party-line vote. How’d that work out?
by Doyle McManus John A. Boehner lasted five years as House speaker before he ran out of patience with his party’s hardline Freedom Caucus. “Legislative terrorists,” the Ohio Republican called […]
The Yom Kippur War — plus 50
On Sept. 22, 2005, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. It did not take someone with the power of an Old Testament prophet to predict what would […]
Hamas attack on Israel must end in terror group’s defeat
Saturday’s Hamas terror onslaught from its stronghold in Gaza into Israel, murdering hundreds, was a sneak attack, just like the sneak attacks by Egypt and Syria on Israel on Yom […]
