MORGANTOWN – Social media abounds with posts questioning the reality and severity of the COVID pandemic, and the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccines. A recent […]
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Jan. 8 letters to the editor
Let’s create jobs cleaning up old mines A lot of work remains to be done to reclaim abandoned mine lands in West Virginia. Before passage of the […]
COVID vaccines don’t kill people, but anti-vaxx
conspiracists do
The full-contact sport of football is one that is rife with risks. The public and the players have for some time known the dangers posed to the […]
Hospital COVID numbers climbing; new variant taking over; Justice retooling his briefings
MORGANTOWN — COVID hospitalizations have tripled since Thanksgiving, a new variant is on the loose, and Gov. Jim Justice is rebranding his twice-weekly briefings in acknowledgement of […]
COVID cases, hospitalizations on the rise again; Justice plans TikTok ban, orders state preparedness for coming winter storm
MORGANTOWN — Tuesday’s COVID briefing from the governor’s office was plagued with technical glitches but the topics of increased hospitalizations, a TikTok ban and the coming winter […]
Justice discusses belated revelation of proclamation ending state COVID emergency effective Jan. 1
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice issued a proclamation to end the pandemic state of emergency back on Nov. 12, but never announced it, so the public didn’t […]
Justice and team urge boosters as BQ variants arrive and death toll tops 5 county populations; Justice muses on U.S. Senate run
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice briefly addressed his thoughts on running for U.S. Senate during Tuesday’s COVID briefing. But it was a COVID briefing and before the […]
Get vaccinated as winter illness threat grows
Your lifetime risk of dying in a destructive storm is minimal: 1 in 35,074, according to the National Safety Council. You’re much more likely to die by […]
Justice addresses rumors regarding CDC COVID immunization vote, touts his car tax bill
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice on Monday added his 2 cents to the raging debate about the CDC’s latest COVID vaccine action, and took another swipe in […]
Guest essay: COVID: What now?
by Dr. Chris Martin We’ve entered an odd new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the one hand, life is much more normal in many ways. Indeed, […]
