The West Virginia Primary Election 60 years ago this month was one for the ages. John Kennedy, the young Senator from Massachusetts, started his presidential campaign as […]
Opinion
May 22 letters to the editor
In support of Arlie Campbell for magistrate I endorse Arlie Campbell for Division 4 Magistrate in the forthcoming Monongalia County election. We have been friends for over […]
West Virginians aren’t ready to reopen businesses
The governor might be ready to open the state, but are we? We did a poll asking respondents if they thought West Virginia was ready to reopen. […]
Coronavirus pandemic makes end-of-life care harder
I just lost a dear elderly friend to cancer. Home hospice workers kept him comfortable. He spent his final weeks watching spring unfold in the outdoor Eden […]
May 21 letters to the editor
Welfare recipient states are mostly Republican The letter to the editor on 5/14/20 left me wondering where the writer got their info. As for Ronnie, it was […]
Trump’s retaliatory IG firings can’t be swept under the rug
President Jimmy Carter created the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in 1978 as a kind of apology to the American people for Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Not […]
Stealth legislation: Bills passed without knowing what’s in them
In the pantheon of great lines suitable for induction into Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 2010 comment about Obamacare: “We have to pass the […]
A hashtag in search of a scandal
As American deaths from the coronavirus approached 85,000, the largest outbreak in the world by far, President Donald Trump was playing, “I Know Something You Don’t Know” […]
Why churches should remain closed — for now
A reader emailed us a question that people have been asking: Under Illinois’ shutdown order, why is it OK to go to the grocery store or Walmart, […]
McConnell, just go ahead and call Obama the n-word
Dear Mitch McConnell: Why don’t you just go ahead and call Barack Obama the n-word? You know you want to. It’d probably do wonders for your blood […]