By Bridget Rooney Tribune News Service Sept. 11, 2001, will always be recognized as a day of tribulation in the United States. Some 3,000 people lost their lives in multiple […]
Opinion
Sept. 9 letters to the editor
If democracy needed a friend it wasn’t Trump Lowering taxes, enacting tariffs and deregulating many safety measures designated to protect our health, President Trump is imploding our democracy. We listen […]
Don’t shelve higher ideas to save lives from gun violence
It’s not only bad things that come in threes. Sometimes good things, or in this instance advances, happen three times in a row, too. No, there looks to be no […]
Why Sen. Manchin passed up the governor’s race
Sen. Joe Manchin has always been politically stealthy. He has practiced to near perfection the ability to balance in the middle as the political world increasingly pulls participants to one […]
Protection protocol anything but
In the eight months since the Trump administration began implementing its euphemistically named Migrant Protection Protocols, the government has returned more than 35,000 asylum seekers to Mexico to wait out […]
Poll paints a story of same economy, just different year
Wouldn’t you know it. It always depends on who you ask. Ask Gov. Jim Justice or the state Chamber of Commerce if there’s a reason to cheer the state’s economy […]
Stop the mental health data mining of our children
No, no, no. Hell, no! That’s my response to the latest trial balloon floated by the White House to join with Silicon Valley on a creepy program monitoring “neurobehavioral signs” […]
Sept. 5 letters to the editor
How do other counties manage nicer roads? After numerous calls to the Division of Highways, both local and district offices, and letters to the paper about the huge potholes on […]
In light of Ryan Diviney’s death, lets’s reaffirm our revulsion at assaults
We’re not sure anyone is still counting, but someone should be. The last time we counted the number of aggravated assaults in downtown Morgantown was in May 2014. That time […]
Looking for love in wrong place: The online snake pit
Some scandals reported as shocking are shocking for reasons other than those implied in the coverage. One would be the online scam that bilked millions from businesses, the elderly and […]
