EDITOR’S NOTE: Hoppy is on vacation this week. This column is from Jan. 30, 2024. The West Virginia Republican Party executive committee has approved a resolution that will limit the […]
Opinion
New ‘baby box’ a welcome addition, but doesn’t replace right to choose
As we reported at the end of January, Morgantown will receive West Virginia’s second “baby box” as part of the Norwood Fire Station’s renovations. The baby box will be built […]
People power, not palace politics
by John Opdycke I’ve been an independent voter since I was 18. Back then, I knew less than zero about politics. I went to the University of Michigan to play […]
Clickbait fuels obsession on Biden’s age
The special counsel report claiming that Joe Biden’s memory had seriously declined stinks to high political heaven. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe saw “nauseating similarities” to the agency’s investigation […]
Editorial Encore: Say ‘I love you’ in the right language
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s editorial has been adapted from one that originally published Nov. 30, 2022. “Research shows holiday shoppers often don’t buy what recipients want.” The research by Julian […]
Denigrating media a political mainstay
by Llewellyn King In the 1990s, someone wrote in The Weekly Standard — it may well have been Matt Labash — that for conservatives to triumph, they had to attack […]
The unmaking of a president
Beginning with the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and through the re-election of Richard Nixon in 1972, political journalist and biographer Theodore H. White wrote books called “The […]
Protect Affordable Care Act as enrollment grows
The glitches accompanying the Affordable Care Act’s rollout generated understandable criticism for years after its 2014 debut. But the landmark law’s successes deserve the spotlight, too. This year has brought […]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court takes aim at politics of cruelty
by Francis Wilkinson The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982 prohibition on Medicaid funding […]
So much that goes unmeasured in the wonderful task of teaching
by Adam Patric Miller When I had to use four sick days in a row recently, I got a note from a doctor that cleared me to return to teaching, […]
