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 […]
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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 […]
Carolina Kirby looks to continue inclusive bond with underclassmen
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — University junior distance runner Caroline Kirby still remembers her first summer of high school cross country. She came from a background of success in the sport, capturing […]
Randy Mazey named East Regional Coach of the Year
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — After guiding the West Virginia baseball team to one of its best seasons in program history, Randy Mazey was named the East Regional Coach of the Year […]
Edwin Frank Dunson Jr.
Edwin Frank Dunson Jr., 67, of Bruceton Mills, died Saturday, June 22, 2019, at Pine Wood Nursing Center in Kingwood. The son of the late Edwin Fr. Dunson Sr. and […]


