Detectives with the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department are seeking information on a vehicle of interest as they investigate a shooting last week at Northside Hills Apartments in Morgantown. A recent […]
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WVGOP clarifies that party has not endorsed Alex Mooney
The West Virginia Republican Party clarified a statement that appeared in a Sunday story on campaign finances for GOP incumbents David McKinley and Alex Mooney, both running for the new […]
Lovie Maier
Lovie Lee Maier, 93, of Tunnelton, died on Sunday, April 24, 2022, at Preston Memorial Hospital with her daughters by her side. Lovie was born Aug. 4, 1928, in Tunnelton, […]
Macron’s win is an opportunity for France and the EU
by Lionel Laurent In 2017, France bucked the populist trend by voting for Emmanuel Macron against europhobic Marine Le Pen. In 2022, it has done so again – just as […]
When GOP adopts Russia’s playbook
by Kurt Bardella The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States: one that’s white, Christian and fundamentally opposed to Western ideals of pluralism. These […]
Like in the 1970s, bad economic news haunts Biden
U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conjures memories of 1970s stagflation, a nightmarish […]
Child tax credit was the hand up many needed
In December 2021, three sources told news outlets that Sen. Joe Manchin had postulated in private that West Virginia families would use the money they received from the Child Tax […]
May 1 letters to the editor
Your vote does matter. Get out to the polls When was the last time you voted? “My vote doesn’t matter” is said too often and just isn’t true. It does […]
We need information literacy classes for students
by Victor Shi Fifty years ago, the national networks CBS, ABC and NBC dominated television screens in America and were the primary way voters obtained information: Each network, along with […]
Putin’s war and Russian identity
by Anastasia Edel “Russia is not Putin.” As a lecturer in Russian history, and an ex-Soviet Russian American, I have said these words many times. But now the treasures of […]
