President Donald Trump is not the only populist leader who initially minimized the coronavirus pandemic, wasting precious time to prepare his country for the crisis. Several Latin American presidents have […]
Opinion
Thank-you note goes out to all in pandemic’s wake
Thank-you notes are a lost art. While handwritten ones are preferred, there are too many people to thank right now to send them all handwritten thank-you notes. They’ll just have […]
March 22 letters to the editor
No need for Certificates of Need What’s wrong with this picture? Two small northern West Virginia hospitals have been bought — to be closed — in the past few months. […]
Waging war on fake news
We live in an age of misinformation. Propaganda disguised as reporting; politicians and public figures calling anything they disagree with “fake news”; social media allowing falsehoods to spread across the […]
W.Va. running short on doctors for Alzheimer’s, dementia
Last month I wrote a commentary about Alzheimer’s cruel toll in West Virginia. According to the West Virginia Alzheimer’s Association, 38,000 West Virginians are living with the disease and that […]
Political parties: Bad choices; bad faith
So here we are again. Our political choices have been constricted and constrained. It is only March and seemingly the die has been cast for November. We will apparently have […]
Technology makes shrinking world feel a little bigger
Somehow, our communities are expanding even as they shrink. Restaurants and bars are closed down. Gyms and rec centers, too. Schools are vacant until further notice. Self-isolating and social distancing […]
Portrait of an American city at the dawn of a pandemic
On Friday, James Coen is folding and unfolding, arranging and rearranging the piles of colorful St. Patrick’s Day T-shirts he has displayed on folding tables outside one of the three […]
Criminal courts can’t pause
It’s good news that the Supreme Court has suspended oral arguments indefinitely. If nothing else, it helps keep Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg safe. Spry but still a cancer survivor, she […]
Bloom articulates specific grievance against ASF, finally
We’d like to interrupt the continuous coverage of coronavirus to take Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom up on his offer to write an editorial about his comments regarding the Appalachian […]
