Sign-wielders on Patteson Drive. Angry parents at school board meetings. “Karens” berating store employees, as seen on social media or in real life. They all have something in common: Cries of “individual choice.” And they’re right: They do have a choice. However, the people ...
by Gene Policinski Two of the least-known freedoms protected by the First Amendment — the rights of assembly and petition — are being tested in today’s rancorous, confrontational social atmospherics. With confrontation comes vexing problems, for both speakers who fear ...
KINGWOOD — Not all Preston County parents agree with the current school mask mandate. Roughly 20 parents, some with their children, protested the mandate Friday. They stood on the sidewalk across from the courthouse annex holding signs and waving at vehicles as drivers honked in ...
MORGANTOWN—Dozens of protestors lined Patteson Drive Saturday in response to the growing number of health care systems announcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees. Vaccination mandates throughout the health care field are becoming more common as WVU Medicine, Mon Health Systems, ...
It didn’t take Betsy Lawson long to gather the orange rocks she brought with her to the rally Thursday afternoon. Same for the water of that same tint she scooped up in the Mason jar. Both, for all intents, were in her backyard. “Right on the other side of our fence line,” she ...
Holly Bradley smiled down at her two boys Thursday afternoon as they romped on a sidewalk in the Wharf District. Elam, 5, danced and jumped while his little brother, Arlo, going on 2, mirrored his every move. Moves were on the mind of Bradley, whose roots here go back nine ...