Pipeline’s pros can’t outweigh its cons A guest essay in Sunday’s Dominion Post (3-26-23) extolling the benefits of finishing the Mountain Valley Pipeline is so glaringly misleading that a response is required. The remaining unbuilt section would cross the Blue Ridge ...
Educators lacking the tools for success There is no doubt that there is a crisis in education. However, when teacher accountability is the only focus, other critical factors are ignored. As a teacher, I want to be successful at my job. I want to see my students succeed! However, teacher ...
EAST PALESTINE — Rick Tsai is standing knee-deep in the briskly flowing Lesley Run creek, a mile downstream of where the massive derailment happened in this Columbiana County village. He’s wearing thick blue rubber gloves, heavy boots and a respirator, and he is intent on seeing if the ...
Law protects patients from predatory prices I have spent my entire career working in the health care space and I wanted to bring awareness to a key piece of legislation that was implemented recently that will help West Virginia patients and their families access critical ...
by Matt Simon An environmental crisis is brewing in your washing machine. We’re all familiar with macroplastic pollution — the big stuff like soda bottles that litter our streets and parks. But microplastic pollution — which scientists define as particles smaller than 5 ...
by Lisa Jarvis A new study has upended the way researchers think about how air pollution causes lung cancer. The work cracks open a whole new way of thinking about certain cancers and how to treat and even prevent them. It also suggests environmental agencies may have good reason to ...