MORGANTOWN – A recent legislative look at a group of potentially hazardous chemicals – called PFAS – in West Virginia’s drinking water supply coincided with a U.S. EPA health advisory […]
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Morgantown Utility Board 2023 budget just under $37 million
MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Utility Board has a 2023 spending plan totaling just over $36.9 million in place for the coming fiscal year. The budget is actually broken into four […]
Downtown hosts state birthday party
MORGANTOWN — Almost Heaven lived up to its nickname for its 159th birthday on Monday. The cloudy and warm day was the backdrop to a birthday party for West Virginia […]
Morgantown students named U.S. presidential scholars
One recipient isn’t ruling out plans for entrepreneurship in high-tech — while the other is waiting to see where both hemispheres of his brain will transport him, in two distinctly […]
Stop toying with DACA recipients
On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. By his executive order, the […]
Senate gun safety deal isn’t small potatoes
by George Skelton Politicizing is paying off. And hopefully we’re headed for the slippery slope that gun lobbies long have dreaded. The response is automatic from gun groups and their […]
Forced prison labor continues to enslave Black Americans
by Richard Wallace As Juneteenth celebrations and paraphernalia to litter our social timelines, we must remember that slavery has yet to be truly abolished. To this day, in prisons and […]
Washed out: Best laid plans a thing of the past
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a bit of a planner I’ll dog the details to death — Google menus at restaurants where we’re going, check the weather a thousand […]
MPD officer: This department is in a very tough spot
MORGANTOWN — Multiple sources within the Morgantown Police Department say the department is facing a crisis. They explain a lack of adequate staffing in combination with upcoming changes to city […]
How to celebrate Juneteenth
Today is an odd confluence of holidays: The beloved perennial Father’s Day and the new-ish (at least to the official registry of national holidays) Juneteenth. We, of course, wish all […]
