Protestors shouldn’t get front-page photos It has happened again! I opened the paper Saturday, Sept. 4, to find a photo of mothers in Preston County protesting the mandating of mask-wearing. The Sunday, Aug. 29, front-page photo of healthcare workers protesting mandating COVID-19 ...
by Dr. Cory Franklin and Dr. Robert Weinstein William Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even the past.” He meant that events from the past can still affect us now or in the future. He could have been referring to COVID-19 infections, for there is growing ...
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia's COVID numbers have hit an all-time pandemic peak, Gov. Jim Justice said Friday. But no mandates are in the wing – he still urges vaccination. “I'm going to continue to plead with you to do that,” he said. “I don't know anything else to do.” The ...
MORGANTOWN – State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Thursday signed onto a 24-state letter calling on President Biden to rethink his national vaccine mandate. “Your plan is disastrous and counterproductive,” the seven-page letter says. “From a policy perspective, this edict is ...
by Sara Pequeño Folks always say there’s an episode of “The Andy Griffith Show” for everything. I think I’m starting to believe them. In an episode from season two, Sheriff Andy Taylor joins the county nurse on a quest to get farmer Rafe Hollister to take the tetanus ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice told the story on Wednesday with two color-coded charts. The charts showed the the shape of West Virginia filled with little people figures representing the vaccinated and unvaccinated. One showed a whole bunch of yellow people and a few blue people who are ...