MORGANTOWN — For everything positive that happened to West Virginia Wednesday night, it took all of 22.6 seconds to determine the Mountaineers’ 84-81 loss against Iowa State inside Hilton Coliseum. […]
Opinion
Far-right Supreme Court has damaged Americans’ trust
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court made yet another controversial ruling that further solidifies its image as a political body rather than a neutral arbiter of the law. In […]
Mike Rowe Scholarship highlights lost virtues of hard work and sweat
Tracy Wilson is sitting in the cutest little ranch house in Lusby, Md. It is her dream house — literally her dream house, she explains, as she has had the […]
Does being a land of plenty make us a land of good?
Last week, it was peanuts. Unsalted, roasted in the shell, to be exact. But lately, it’s always something, some commonplace commodity that suddenly cannot be found at the store. Strawberries. […]
House looks at one good idea, two bad ones for schools
Three bills related to education recently passed the West Virginia Senate and moved on to the House of Delegates. SB 229 will require county boards of education to prepare an […]
Recent book bans a strategic part of wider attacks on our democracy
by Suzanne Nossel In the ever-worsening culture wars, schools have emerged as a battlefront, with fierce arguments raging about the contents of curricula and propriety of particular books. Debating what […]
Mayor Eric Adams is half right
It is usually Republicans who blast the media for what they consider biased or unfair coverage of their policies, but increasingly we are hearing Democrats engaging in the same behavior, […]
COLUMN: West Virginia has faced the same obstacles all season with no way of getting over the hump
MORGANTOWN — Even in Bill Murray’s movie “Groundhog Day,” a film where Murray kept reliving the same day until he finally got it right, Murray eventually got to walk off […]
In defending gun law, AG Schmitt aids the criminals
The Biden administration sued Missouri in federal court in Kansas City last Wednesday over the state’s bonkers attempt to nullify enforcement of federal gun laws here. The plainly unconstitutional state […]
Truth and consequences after a murder
by Tony Norman I’ve always been fascinated by white folks who use the “N-word” with what appears to be ferocious joy. There’s something about the combination of hard consonants compacted […]
