by Julia Moore Vogel In a world where most pandemic safety protocols have evaporated, where is the sense of urgency to treat, or at the very least support, people with long COVID? Early in the pandemic, we saw significant mobilization of the healthcare infrastructure across the ...
by Noam N. Levey For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the threatening collection letters from a lab that arrived more than 2½ years later, just as her husband lost his job and the family ...
by Sabrina Weekley For many West Virginians, food means family. We grew up with our grandmothers fixing big meals as an expression of their love. And in turn, the memories created and associated with eating bring us comfort and provide a sense of security to many of us during difficult ...
by Delegate Joey Garcia All politics are local. It’s an old saying that still endures today. It encapsulates the concept that personal concerns are more important than lofty ideas. And the greatest impact policymakers can make are improvements to our families’ and neighbors’ ...
by Rekha Basu Ajit “Ayaan” Sharma, a skinny 11-year-old with dark eyes that gleam like headlights, bounces around a New Delhi home on the balls of his feet. He exudes an energetic spunk for a kid living with only one working lung — and that functioning at only 40% — because of ...
by Sen. Mike Oliverio The free market is a good thing. Competition drives up performance and keeps costs low. That is the same in the public sector as the private. That is why I supported the passage of Senate Bill 476 last session. The bill passed last legislative ...