State Senate President Mitch Carmichael didn’t batten down any votes Tuesday night from the Monongalia County Board of Education. Carmichael, R-Jackson, has long championed West Virginia’s controversial education omnibus bill […]
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Why not have this conversation about original sin of past?
We waited another week, not another year to finally endorse this discussion. Last week, a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing to discuss creation of a commission to study […]
Are You Ready to party like it’s 1999?
In 1999, Crash Team Racing sped onto the Playstation, giving Crash Bandicoot fans the chance to get behind the wheel with some of Naughty Dog’s iconic characters. Now 20 years […]
Mexico is not now and never was the enemy
On a daily basis, President Donald Trump hurls threats at Mexico — close the border, levy new tariffs, arrest millions. But history shows it’s smarter to recognize our neighbor as […]
Gulag helped kill Egypt’s only elected leader
When Egypt’s first and only elected president, Mohamed Mursi, dropped dead in a courtroom last week, official Washington barely noticed. President Donald Trump was focused on the crisis in Iran. […]
Family planning good investment
Malcolm Potts And Alisha Graves Los Angeles Times In the late 1960s, for a brief moment, population growth commanded the kind of political, popular and academic focus that climate change […]
Lethal season finally over for horses at track
The grisly winter racing season at Santa Anita finally, mercifully, came to a close Sunday, with 30 horses dead from racing or training. The latest death was just two days […]
Do you really want to travel the world that much?
Hypertourism has become the curse of desirable places all over the world. It refers to the swarms of tourists who clog the plazas and narrow streets of prized cultural destinations […]
June 26 letters to the editor
Let people vote for or against annexation The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary defines inconsistency as: “(of an argument) containing elements that are opposed and do not match, so that it […]
Morgantown Post 2 defeated Bridgeport 12-2
BRIDGEPORT — The Morgantown Post 2 baseball team defeated Bridgeport American Legion Post 68, 12-2, on Tuesday thanks in part to Quintin Smith, who drove in four runners. Smith drove […]
