Last Friday, Nicholas County Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Baker was shot and killed, and Deputy Josh Ellison was wounded when they responded to a domestic dispute complaint in the Birch River […]
Opinion
COLUMN: Joe Mazzulla’s success as an NBA assistant likely takes him off the list as a successor to Bob Huggins
MORGANTOWN — For those who have followed Joe Mazzulla’s coaching career through the years, the report of him being a candidate for the next head coach for the Utah Jazz […]
Reforming gun laws
Yesterday, when we mentioned the process of getting a license to drive a car, we said we’d come back to that. Well, we’re coming back to it now. At the […]
Future pain if inflation isn’t curbed
by Ramesh Ponnuru A consensus has formed that the Federal Reserve waited too long to start tightening money. Ben Bernanke, the former Fed chairman, has said so. Janet Yellen, another […]
The Janes: ‘We thought it was over’
It opens with a woman’s voice and a black screen. “I had no other options,” she says. “I wanted it over with.” Then you see her. White, gray-haired, maybe somewhere […]
Bring common sense back to gun ownership
First, the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., that left 10 dead. Second, the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 kids and two teachers dead. Finally, the medical center […]
Who cashes in after a wildfire?
by Matt Sedlar Driving around parts of southern El Dorado County, Calif., you can’t miss the trucks. Everywhere near the areas ravaged by the 2021 Caldor fire that leveled the […]
Predictable commencement addresses
What comes to mind in the month of June? Weddings. Vacations (and how to pay for record high gas prices if you’re driving). Graduations. Time was when many commencement speeches […]
Republicans finally weighed in on climate change
The U.S. lost massive ground in combating climate change during the Trump administration, a recent report says. Now, congressional Republicans are offering their own climate plan — which doesn’t actually […]
What I tell my law students reversing Roe would mean for the rule of law
by Matthew B. Lawrence The leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has brought to mind Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s haunting question about what reversing Roe v. Wade would […]
