Monongalia County students are seeing red this morning — and not just because a few might be annoyed about returning to school after a long holiday break. […]
Tag: pandemic
Editorial Encore: A thank-you note for the front line
EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial originally ran March 23, 2020. While parts of our lives have reached a “new normal,” front-line workers continue to bear the brunt of […]
Endemic COVID should be celebrated
by Robert Pearl Most leading immunologists predict COVID-19 will someday become an endemic, a persistent but manageable threat on par with seasonal flu, conceivably by the end […]
Guest essay: The forgotten champions of the pandemic response
by Paul D. Daugherty Since the first hours the pandemic arrived in our state, West Virginia’s nonprofits have taken initiative, shown leadership and provided continuous service from […]
Dec. 5 letters to the editor
Downtown must have own warming shelter Monongalia Friends Meeting has a deep concern for our neighbors in Morgantown who are without shelter this winter. As Quakers, we […]
Gratitude is as much a practice as an emotion
It’s as much a Thanksgiving tradition as turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce: Naming the thing — or things — you are grateful for. (After all, it […]
You cannot pour from an empty cup
Around this time last year, in between opining on local affairs and gearing up for the election, we were encouraging people to hang in there — to […]
What are the rules for this Halloween?
by Nicholas Goldberg I live on one of those Los Angeles streets where kids and their families come from all around the city to trick or treat. […]
Death toll continues to rise; officials keeping an eye on Delta Plus variant
Gov. Jim Justice opened his Wednesday briefing with the grim task of reading out 85 more COVID-19 deaths in West Virginia. The total dead is now 4,219, […]
W.Va. COVID deaths approach 4,000; active cases down
Gov. Jim Justice opened his first briefing of this week with the somber responsibility of reading 110 COVID-19 deaths. Of those 110, 28 were reconciliation deaths, he […]