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What do you do when ‘normal’ seems surreal?

Pandemic. Global warming. Racial reckoning. Cold war. World war. Potential nuclear Armageddon. It’s as if the most harrowing and tumultuous events of the 20th century have been resurrected and compressed into the last two years. How do you go about the business of ...

Going to be hard for Justice to sue Kabler when Kabler is right

Of the 24 minutes Gov. Jim Justice spoke during his COVID briefing Monday, before taking questions from the press, he dedicated at least 10 minutes to complaining about — and threatening to sue — the Charleston Gazette-Mail and its reporter/columnist Phil Kabler for a “Statehouse ...

Bosses, reopen offices with caution

by Deborah Lovich With the omicron surge subsiding, many business leaders are again planning to urge — and even demand — that their employees return to their pre-pandemic offices. It’s understandable: U.S. businesses are paying for countless thousands of square feet of expensive ...

‘Follow the science’ is a slogan, not policy

by Faye Flam Almost everybody wants to be seen as embracing science. That’s true whether they are arguing to take masks off or leave them on, or whether they’re pushing continued caution or a return to normal. The phrase “follow the science” has been used by the left to defend ...

Giving up COVID, but keeping masks and fist bumps

by Nolan Finley I gave up my fear of COVID-19 the moment the second shot of the Moderna vaccine went into my arm a year ago. The point of getting vaccinated was to get out from under the constant worry about the virus and back into the world. Thanks to a government double-cross, ...