It’s not easy being green. Yes, the country is moving steadily forward with clean energy sources to replace coal and natural gas. The Inflation Reduction Act passed last year is […]
Opinion
Aug. 17 letters to the editor – WVU Academic Transformation
EDITOR’S NOTE: LTTEs regarding WVU Academic Transformation From now until Aug. 31, we will open letters to the editor to WVU alumni and current and former staff and faculty, including […]
Young people sue over climate change. Good for them
Young people are finally learning how to play the game — and how to win. In Montana, 16 people between the ages of 5 and 22 just successfully sued the […]
Trump’s nightmare: A prosecutor who can’t be baited
Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist. This judgement has been made by psychiatrists and prosecutors alike. The milder form of the narcissistic personality disorder centers on grandiosity, delusional sense of […]
Mon Commission should help out Star City VFD
It was already a blow to the community when the Star City Volunteer Fire Department had to retire its EMS. We don’t want to imagine how devastating it could be […]
98-year-old Kansas newswoman died in the line of duty after police raid
by Melinda Henneberger Joan Meyer, 98-year-old enemy of the people, died in the line of duty on Saturday. A newswoman since 1953 and co-owner of the local paper in her […]
Arms or money for hostages: What’s the difference?
The Biden administration is transferring $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets in South Korea to an account in Qatar, which Iran will be able to access, in what appears to […]
The federal gov’t is a fiscal mess
Decades of excessive spending, paid with debt, are hitting America’s credit rating. On Aug. 1, Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States federal government’s rating from AAA, the best, to AA+, […]
The shallow bipartisanship of the CTC
by Christopher Howard Despite the enormous toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, child poverty in the United States declined. According to the government’s supplemental poverty measure, which is more accurate than […]
‘I earned my forgiveness’: Lifting stress of student debt changes people’s lives
by Yvette Walker I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised, but reader interest in my recent Public Service Loan Forgiveness column has been high. And why not? Many people either […]
