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Sept. 8 letters to the editor

Editorial gets it right on fight against drugs Thank you for the editorial of Sept. 1 (“W.Va. vs. drug use: We’re losing”). In Morgantown in particular, there are policies that don’t help people get ahead. Our county subsidizes what the editorial calls “low-wage service jobs,” ...

WVU professors talk election

Come January — provided vote counts don’t change — there will be a Democrat in the White House and a Republican-controlled Senate. So what does that mean to the average American? Well for one thing, it will mean no more 2 a.m. Tweets, said John Kilwein, chair of West Virginia ...

Former WVU president Gene Budig dies

WVU Today Former West Virginia University president Gene Budig died Tuesday at 81.  Budig was president of two other universities — Illinois State and Kansas — was a newspaper editor and author and the former president of baseball’s American League. Budig was the WVU president ...

A look at statewide races in West Virginia

CHARLESTON — Sweating it out on the state’s hottest day of the year, voters on Tuesday were choosing presidential, gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and U.S. House candidates in West Virginia’s Democratic and Republican primaries. They also were deciding a majority of the five-member state ...