BANGOR, Wash. — A Morgantown native is stationed at Naval Base Kitsap (NBK), homeport to west coast ballistic-missile and guided-missile submarines. Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Liller joined the Navy […]
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Jan. 2 letters to the editor
Make Arthurdale a national historic site As Randy Vealey‘s Dec. 26 guest essay discussed, tourism is an important economic growth engine for the Mountain State. An effort is underway to […]
We’re poisoning ourselves with war
by Robert C. Koehler EDITOR’S NOTE: Leonard Pitts is on vacation this week. His next column will appear on Jan. 6. War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the […]
Disappointing 2022 Pentagon budget
by Elizabeth Shackelford On Dec. 15, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual legislation authorizing the yearly defense budget. At $768 billion, it breezed through the House […]
What they earned: Three Medal of Honor recipients represent best of the United States
America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are over, but the actions of many of the troops who served can continue to uplift a fractious nation. President Biden last Thursday paid […]
It’s time to take UFOs seriously
by Dillon Guthrie Of all the year’s political drama, the most surprising may be the U.S. government’s actions on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs — better known as UFOs. The […]
Veterans Day: City native Berry Birurakis among the pilots who flew America’s fallen home
After sidling by the hills and poking through the fog, there it is. On the days when the sky is a lithograph blue, Berry Birurakis really doesn’t have to look […]
The China threat
by Jay Ambrose China recently launched a test missile that whirled around the entire planet traveling at five times the speed of sound and previewing hypersonic duplicates someday possibly threatening […]
Let Abu Zubaydah testify about years of U.S. torture
Supreme Court justices appeared to agree on Wednesday that it’s time for the longest-held U.S. detainee at Guantánamo Bay to tell his story in court. The prisoner, Zain al-Abidine Muhammad […]
W.Va. businesses thank military, veterans with free services
MORGANTOWN — What would it be like to miss your child’s first birthday, their first steps or their high school graduation? What if you could not talk with your spouse […]
