It’s a lesson most of us learn the hard way on more than one occasion. Make your words soft and sweet because you never know when you’ll have to eat […]
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Lawmakers’ spats should not stymie people’s business
The people’s business stops where a lawmaker’s tiff starts? What the heck? We refer to Delegate Eric Porterfield, R-Mercer, deciding to invoke a rule that requires the actual legal language […]
More experiments put technology to a vote at the polls
What a difference a week makes at the polls. On Feb. 3, those who swear by smartphone apps got their comeuppance in reporting caucus results from Iowa. But on Tuesday, […]
Interaction is overrated — watch this stuff instead
There was a time, many moons ago, when the content of this column was largely influenced by my interactions with others. Could be a funny thing I heard, or a […]
What to watch when you’re not watching the Super Bowl
Given the giant graphic to the right, and the fact that 100 million people are planning their entire evening around it, I probably don’t need to point out that today […]
Before fixing tomorrow, Democrats must fix today
Like all candidates, Democrats focus their campaigns on what they will do if elected. Progressives often accuse Joe Biden in particular of wanting to take America back to the Barack […]
Feb. 19 letters to the editor
Why not build steel wall to stop boulders? When I served in the armed forces in West Germany in 1981, I stayed in a World War II barracks. Its walls […]
Levi Carrico nets 1,000th point in Clay-Battelle’s 65-55 win over Cameron
BLACKSVILLE, W.Va. — Levi Carrico scored 21 points and notched his 1,000th career point as the Clay-Battelle boys’ basketball team defeated Cameron, 65-55, on Tuesday. Coltin Barr scored 17 points […]
COLUMN: Lineup changes were not a big issue to West Virginia players, Huggins
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — On the outside of West Virginia’s men’s basketball program, the changes Bob Huggins made during Tuesday’s 65-47 victory against Oklahoma State at the WVU Coliseum seemed […]
Second-half surge leads No. 17 West Virginia past Oklahoma State
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — It looked all too eerily familiar for a while, but in the end, No. 17 West Virginia took its own struggles from the past two weeks […]
