The United States has reached a devastating milestone: We’ve lost more Americans to COVID-19 than we lost to the influenza pandemic of 1918. As of this writing, over 694,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID; the 1918 flu took around 675,000 American lives. It’s hard not to be ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was business as usual in Monongalia County schools last week. Students shuffled in for class and teachers worked from their lesson plans. Football teams and marching bands performed under the Friday night lights. County voters renewed the excess levy for education, ...
It was hard to watch our last home football game. Not just because the Mountaineers almost gave the game away (thank goodness for the defense), but because we watched fans packed shoulder-to-shoulder in Milan Puskar Stadium and filling Ruby Memorial’s parking lot with unmasked (and too many ...
Manchin voting on W.Va. youths’ future As a West Virginia resident and person who has family in West Virginia, I unfortunately will have to leave the state unless Sen. Manchin votes for budget reconciliation. One of West Virginia’s largest issues is that young people like myself are ...
by Amber Tichnell I know this is a very difficult time for our state, country and world. I’d like to speak to you as a minority that I don’t think has had much if a voice in the public arena. I have a Primary Immune Deficiency (PID — specifically, Common Variable Immune ...
Anytime the attorney general wants to pursue a lawsuit, it should have to be put up for a vote. Not necessarily a full election-style vote. A survey or poll would suffice. Combining it with an open comment period like many civic offices must do before making big decisions might be a good ...