WVU BOG must keep discussions public The present budget problems of West Virginia University is a matter that should concern all West Virginians, particularly those living in Morgantown — the “Home of the Mountaineers.” Rumors, suspicions and outright lies are circulating about ...
This is hardly a scientific sampling, but a high school teacher in the Dallas area tells me that her students have two big worries: One is getting shot to death. The other is seeing their neighborhood burn up due to climate change. You don’t have to be young to fear gun violence, ...
Texas is currently America’s leader in wind and solar power. It provides 28% of America’s wind energy. If it were a country, it would be the fifth biggest source. Surprisingly, it’s about to eclipse California in production of solar power. And so why aren’t Texas Republicans ...
Decision for new trash bins a garbage plan Let’s talk trash. Or, more specifically, trash bins. We recently had delivered to our driveway a huge Republic trash bin with instructions to place it four feet from parked cars, fire hydrants or recycling bins. By my ...
Also unfair to MonPower consumers by Jim Kotcon The Pleasants power plant is a 43-year-old, 1,300-MW, coal-fired power plant in Pleasants County. MonPower’s parent company, FirstEnergy, tried to dump this unprofitable dinosaur onto MonPower customers in 2017. FirstEnergy argued ...
by Will Bunch If you’ve never heard of the Willow project — the massive, up-to-600-million-barrels oil-drilling venture on federal lands in the Alaska wilderness that was greenlighted this week by the Biden administration — then you’re probably also not a teen or 20-something ...