Just over a month ago, leaders from the Democratic Party made the trip to the White House to discuss a possible trillion-dollar infrastructure bill aimed at repairing the nation’s roads […]
Opinion
Intersection poses threat of a serious accident by design
TO REVIEW and comment on plans for redesigning this intersection, go online at: plantogether.org. It may be the worst intersection in Morgantown and that’s saying a lot. Turning left onto […]
Biden looks to be joining Democrats in left field
Michelle Malkin is off this week. The following is by Betsy McCaughey. Nineteen Democrats running for president took the stage in Iowa on Sunday to woo voters. It was a […]
June 13 letters to the editor
Don’t use clean energy funds for storage hub Recent news reports tout an ethane storage hub for the plastics industry as a bonanza for West Virginia, but consistently refuse to […]
Think our history is dull? Then take trip into our state’s past
Set your compass north, south, east or west and you’ll find history was never dull in West Virginia. From Wheeling’s National Historic Area to Matewan in Mingo County, and from […]
Once again, MLK stands accused
What are you prepared to believe about the private life of Martin Luther King Jr.? Throughout his career leading the civil rights movement, he was the target of extensive FBI […]
Bloomberg going after coal and gas
Back during the Obama administration, we heard a lot about the war on coal. The Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama did its level best to strangle the coal industry […]
A case for restorative justice
Ava DuVernay’s dramatic Netflix miniseries “When They See Us” chronicles the infamous wrongful conviction of five black and Latino teenagers in New York City for the brutal 1989 rape and […]
Mexico was easy target for threats
Mexico is breathing a collective sigh of relief following President Trump’s decision to temporarily suspend his threat to impose draconian tariffs on Mexican goods. But don’t kid yourself: The truce […]
Finding people to fill small town’s empty spaces
A tiny French mountain village with a long name, L’Hospitalet-pres-l’Andorre, has lost half its population over three decades, according to the French newspaper Le Monde. Its name in English would […]
