by Lauren Sowers I know what it’s like to wait for someone lost at sea. When I was 20 years old, working at a music cafe in Charleston, S.C., I […]
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A step toward true equality: Supreme Court ends affirmative action
It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action […]
DOH prepping utilities, securing property for West Run Road widening project
MORGANTOWN — If you need a poster child for overwhelmed infrastructure, West Run Road would certainly fit that bill — particularly the .86 mile stretch between Point Marion Road and […]
Friends of Deckers Creek looking for help with whitewater project
MORGANTOWN — Sometimes you have to embrace the “what if.” Or, as Main Street Morgantown President Mark Downs says, “imagine what’s in the realm of the possible.” Downs explained it […]
Editorial Encore: 247 years of trying to deliver on ideals
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s editorial has been adapted from one that was originally published July 4, 2021. “Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It […]
Republicans promoting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are playing with fire
by Jonathan Bernstein Nominations define parties. But what we’re seeing in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s futile challenge to President Joe Biden is an odd situation in which a nomination skirmish […]
Supreme Court’s wise ruling on free speech and online threats
by Erwin Chemerinsky The Supreme Court long has said that “true threats” are not protected by the First Amendment, but what is a true threat? Although the issue is not […]
City completes Phase II of runway extension project
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Municipal Airport Director Jonathan Vrabel said Phase II of the Morgantown Municipal Airport runway extension project is done. Phase III is expected to begin later this year, […]
Meet John Kelly: The man who lived to tell about it
George Washington, by all accounts, was considered a brilliant tactician on the battlefield. Even if he was out-thought, and out-fought, by the British that day near Philadelphia. The Revolutionary War […]
City of Morgantown a no-fly zone for fireworks
For many, the culmination of America’s Independence Day is the bright colors and thunderous boom of fireworks after the sun sets. For those planning on launching their own aerial tribute […]
