In exchange for approving a supplemental national-security bill providing aid to Israel and Ukraine, Republican lawmakers are insisting on a far-reaching crackdown on the flow of migrants at the U.S.’s southern border. Many Democrats continue to resist the GOP’s demands. They should ...
MORGANTOWN – Democrat Zach Shrewsbury brought his campaign for U.S. Senate to Morgantown Wednesday evening with a rally at 123 Pleasant Street. Shrewsbury's supporters lend their ears to the message. Shrewsbury, a Marine Corps veteran and Princeton resident, filed his candidacy Oct. ...
Less than an hour after the House Ethics Committee published their extensive report on the elected fraudster from New York, Con(gress)man George Santos took to Twitter to claim that he will not be running for a second term next year. Don’t believe him. Don’t believe anything this ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, gave federal workers, U.S. troops and the American people a Thanksgiving and Christmas present: no government shutdown for the rest of the year. But the way he did it last week probably won’t make for a Happy New ...
by Jackie Calmes Tired of Congress’ repeated partisan standoffs every time a big fiscal deadline approaches, like last week’s? Weary of the breathless cable coverage of looming government shutdowns or debt defaults, knowing the partisans (almost) always come to some 11th-hour ...
by Caitlin Cook Food banks are facing a food crisis. A majority of the more than 200 food banks in the Feeding America network serving every county in the country, which Mountaineer Food Bank is part of, report steady or increased demand for food since June 2021. This food crisis ...