MORGANTOWN — Local businessman Cliff Sutherland did a little riffing on “Field of Dreams” the other day. That’s everyone’s favorite baseball movie – even for the people who don’t necessarily […]
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Charles Armistead
Charles “Charlie” S. Armistead Jr., 75, of Elkview passed away at home on Friday, Aug. 8, 2021.Charlie was preceded in death by his parents Charles S. Armistead Sr. and Betty […]
SAMUEL: Hunting is no spectator sport, as it should be
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL The majority of United States citizens live in big cities. Hard for us to relate to that, living in relatively rural West Virginia, but it’s […]
Thank you to our U.S. senators
Capito one of only 19 to support infrastructure bill We often use this space to hold our politicians accountable. Lately, it has been Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin […]
Aug. 15 letters to the editor
Familiar anti-immigrant talk reappearing My great-grandparents fled the oppression of Jewish people in Czarist Russia, arriving in the United States, some not entirely legally, between 1886 and 1903. My father’s […]
Vaccination has long been part of W.Va.’s history of commitment to our community
by Nicole Wilson-Carr and Marly Hazen Ynigues It’s been six months since West Virginia shined on national news for our exemplary early vaccination rate. As NPR reported, if West Virginia’s […]
Profit put ahead of people
by Joseph Gouzd Notice was given on Dec. 11, 2020. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito didn’t respond until July 2021. On Dec. 11, 2020, Viatris, a global pharmaceutical […]
Like children, GOP again toys with U.S. debt ceiling
by Michael Hiltzik You might have thought that, what with the pandemic, global warming-driven catastrophes spreading coast-to-coast, and other urgent matters on their plates, congressional Republicans would set aside the […]
Cuomo goes up the hill …
Then comes tumbling down by Jay Ambrose A talk show producer was calling him sexy, his instructive, caring, humorous press conferences on COVID-19 had won him an Emmy, a publisher […]
From country roads to Calcutta, Morgantown can’t help but mark India’s 75th
MORGANTOWN — It was nearing 12 a.m. on the quite-new day of Aug. 15, 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru calmly stepped to the podium to deliver a speech, in English, to […]
