On Oct. 1, two members of the Human Rights Commission, Don Spencer and Bonnie Brown, met with The Dominion Post Editorial Board to discuss the commission’s proposal to Morgantown City Council to exchange Columbus Day for Indigenous People’s Day. Unfortunately, the HRC won’t be able ...
By Erin CleavengerNewsroom@DominionPost.com The West Virginia Board of Education has set standards for each grade level that represent educational goals and expectations for what students should know, understand and be able to do. According to the social studies standards, West Virginia ...
MORGANTOWN -- Tuesday’s public input on the banning of conversion therapy was fairly lengthy as a dozen or so speakers addressed the issues — all but one encouraging its removal from the city. Morgantown City Council, on the other hand, had far less to say, passing on first reading — ...
MORGANTOWN -- Who was Christopher Columbus? A devout Catholic and working-class man who spent a decade petitioning royal support for a voyage that altered the course of world history and made him a household name? A genocidal slave trader who delivered disease and death to the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Child abuse, torture, medical malpractice. All, Andrew Schneider of Fairness West Virginia explained, are apt descriptors for conversion therapy — the practice of attempting to change someone’s sexual orientation from lesbian, gay or bisexual to straight, or their ...
Commission + council = things getting done It would be an act of kindness for anyone to suggest that the progress made by the present Congress is anything less than a disaster. The members of the evenly divided Congress play to their base or their political party, forgetting about the ...