A traffic stop for an expired registration on Walnut Street in Morgantown on Monday ended with police finding more than 20 grams of suspected cocaine in the vehicle. According to […]
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U.S. primary care can’t withstand the next pandemic
An unprecedented strain of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S. An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At least […]
Who will lead France out of this mess? Nobody
by Lionel Laurent The author Stefan Zweig once wrote that European politics has for centuries been a struggle between two schools of leadership: The common good espoused by humanist Erasmus, […]
J.J. Wetherholt selected seventh overall by the St. Louis Cardinals
MORGANTOWN — J.J. Wetherholt spent the last three years helping the WVU baseball team build toward making history. The Mountaineers shortstop made his own Sunday night without a bat or […]
Tax cuts bring W.Va. to the brink
Gov. Jim Justice and the Legislature need to check their numbers before they send West Virginia into a financial tailspin. Right now, the state is looking at some very expensive […]
July 14 letters to the editor
Dear BOG: WVU’s next president must listen The WVU Board of Governors has launched a webpage for the upcoming presidential search. It suggests that this summer there will be on-campus […]
These are bullish times for adult bullies
by Nedra Rhone My bully radar developed fairly early in life. In junior high, I got caught in the crosshairs of Roderick. He would routinely tease me, then he took […]
Teaching your kids to swim this summer?
Steer clear of arm floaties by Lisa M. Zarda In the drowning prevention community, we dread hearing the other F-word: floaties. These seemingly innocuous devices give responsible parents a false […]
It’s time to end the two-cultures era between science and the humanities
by Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer The melody of human progress up to the present has played on two grand instruments: science and the humanities. But for the last few hundred years, these […]
The hot summer when the Kerchevals cooled off
Like many West Virginians, much of my early childhood was spent in a house without air conditioning. My father built our house — a two-story block structure with garages on […]
