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How independent voters will impact the W.Va. governor’s race

Earlier this year, the West Virginia Republican Party Executive Committee voted to limit the party’s Primary Election to only Republican voters beginning in 2026. That means the May 14 primary is the last time West Virginia voters with no party affiliation will be allowed to play a role in ...

People power, not palace politics

by John Opdycke I’ve been an independent voter since I was 18. Back then, I knew less than zero about politics. I went to the University of Michigan to play soccer, get an education and learn something about how the world worked. I started attending Democratic and Republican ...

Jan. 15 letters to the editor

State leaders’ failure shown on Chaplin Hill Another winter, another chance to damage your car driving on Chaplin Hill Road, the northern entrance to Granville, Star City and Morgantown off Interstate 79, Exit 155. It only took some freezing weather in December to regrow the potholes ...

Pa. House Speaker flips from ‘D’ to ‘I’

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Come January in Harrisburg, there are two constants: The annual Farm Show will be better than it was the year before — it always is — and swearing-in for the new two-year legislative session is guaranteed to be packed with drama. Tuesday was no exception when the ...

Opening primaries is a necessary first step toward bigger reforms

by Kevin Frazier If there were a silver bullet for democratic reform, you think we would have found it by now. With countries around the world experimenting with various forms of democracy for decades, if not centuries, surely we would have unlocked the cheat code to a representative ...