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Time to get Biden on board to save the Mylan plant

Back in April, the West Virginia Legislature passed HR 24, a resolution urging Gov. Jim Justice to form a task force that would petition President Biden to use the Defense Production Act to save the Mylan plant here in Morgantown. (Technically Viatris, but it will always be Mylan to ...

What’s the Republican Party so afraid of?

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an extended version of today's editorial, containing additional information about what was in the For the People Act as well as additional quotes. For the shortened version, please see the e-edition for June 24, 2021. The For the People Act (HR 1 and S 1, ...

June 13 letters to the editor

To the First Lady of W.Va. and her staff  I wanted to personally thank First Lady of West Virginia Cathy Justice for the opportunity for my English students in Monongalia County to participate in her essay contest “Renaming the State of West Virginia.” Not only was this topic ...

RIP Jan. 6 commission

Senate Republicans killed the Jan. 6 commission. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito was one of 35 senators to deliver the death blow to a bipartisan, independent body that would investigate how a rally evolved into a riot — and the subsequent breach of the Capitol  — and make ...

GOP song and dance continues

We’re getting tired of this song and dance the GOP keeps doing, where it begrudgingly allows legislation to pass but guts all the funding mechanisms, then wails about the increasing national debt — which it will then gleefully blame on Democrats. The Republican counteroffer to ...

We need the Equality Act

This past week, The Dominion Post editorial board sat down with representatives from and allies of Fairness West Virginia to discuss the Equality Act, which passed the U.S. House and now heads to the Senate. Jake Jarvis, Fairness WV’s communications manager, described this as a ...