Earlier this month, Gov. Jim Justice asked the West Virginia National Guard and Department of Homeland Security to collect and send excess body armor to Ukraine and encouraged police departments across the state to participate. The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department and West Virginia ...
by Erika D. Smith Violent crime is up in California. So is the public’s fear of crime. And so is the poll-driven, tough-on-crime political rhetoric. But if that leads to some sort of blind trust in law enforcement and an abandonment of police reform, we will all be the worse off ...
by Tony Norman Ryan Coogler prizes discretion. One of Hollywood’s most successful directors for more than a decade, he has never had his name attached to a commercial failure. His last film, “Black Panther,” made $1.4 billion worldwide for Marvel/Disney, shattering the myth ...
It is usually Republicans who blast the media for what they consider biased or unfair coverage of their policies, but increasingly we are hearing Democrats engaging in the same behavior, apparently frustrated their agenda is not being embraced by some of their fellow Democrats and the ...
Trust in government has been declining since the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. According to Pew Research, only 36% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents and 9% of Republicans and those leaning Republican now trust government. Who can blame them given the failure of ...
“Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it, because that’s the truth in people’s minds.” — Steve Young, former professional football player The City of Morgantown has struggled lately with understanding that the way the public perceives ...