by Gene Collier Among this week’s harvest of factoids I unearthed looking for other factoids is that next month — Oct. 7, to be precise — marks the 25th anniversary of the birth of Fox News. As for gifts, what should we get for the network to mark such a significant ...
Normally, we look forward to the first WVU home football game of the season, but this year, we’re looking on with more trepidation than anything else. At the time of this writing, West Virginia leads the nation in the rate of COVID-19 spread. Between Saturday and Wednesday, the state ...
Sign-wielders on Patteson Drive. Angry parents at school board meetings. “Karens” berating store employees, as seen on social media or in real life. They all have something in common: Cries of “individual choice.” And they’re right: They do have a choice. However, the people ...
by Gene Policinski Two of the least-known freedoms protected by the First Amendment — the rights of assembly and petition — are being tested in today’s rancorous, confrontational social atmospherics. With confrontation comes vexing problems, for both speakers who fear ...
by Danny Westneat A reader wrote in with a blunt and honest comment that I want to share, because it alludes to a shift that’s taking place in society as we struggle to deal with this latest surge of the pandemic. “I realized this pandemic is changing me, and not for the ...
by John M. Crisp You don’t have to be a scientist to muster convincing arguments in favor of commonsense measures for combating COVID-19. COVID spreads through the air. Why wouldn’t a face covering of nearly any kind reduce the amount of virus that an infected person exhales, and ...