MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee spent about four hours Saturday mulling over the bill to merge Pierpont Community and Technical College into Fairmont State University. Leaders from the two […]
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Outdoor show brings lots of shopping options to Morgantown
MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia Fishing, Hunting & Outdoor Sports Show drew a large crowd when it returned to Mylan Park on Saturday after a forced year off because of […]
House OKs Senate bill making it easier for gas drillers to acquire leases
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates made quick work of a bill that will make it easier for oil and gas developers to drill and produce. SB 650 passed with […]
Morgantown boys win sectional championship, setup rematch with University next week
MORGANTOWN – The Morgantown boys basketball team (19-4) defeated Wheeling Park (15-9) 57-32 on Friday night to claim the AAAA Region 1 Section 1 title. MHS sophomore Sha-ron Young led […]
Harm reduction programs save lives
Last week, Kingwood City Council declined to give Health Right a letter of support to operate a harm reduction and needle exchange program within the town’s limits. At that meeting, […]
Lawmakers should reject Instagram’s attempts to throw parents under the bus
by Dr. Brian Primack and Sadie Primack Instagram recently announced that a central pillar of its response to teen mental health harms will be to create controls offering parents “to […]
It’s the culture, stupid
Cultural attitudes have changed in the past few years. It began when the pandemic went from something we should be mindful of to a power that we should succumb to, […]
House Education spends two hours on Friday on Senate bill to allow parents to inspect classroom materials; vote expected on Saturday
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee spent two hours hashing over the details of a bill to allow parents, guardians and grandparents to inspect instructional materials and books used in […]
House, Senate adopt resolution calling on Congress for convention to amend Constitution; Senate OKs its budget bill, sends to House
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates spent just over an hour Friday debating another one of its annual resolutions applying to Congress to call a convention of states to propose […]
‘Slava Ukraini’: Morgantown’s Ukrainian community to hold candlelight vigil while war at home burns
Slava Ukraini. “Glory to Ukraine,” in English. For more than 100 years, the above has served as both a battlefield call to arms, and an everyday greeting, for a country […]
