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We should embrace chances to speak up

Too often, we forget that there are ways to participate in government outside election season. For example — particularly on the local level — there are town halls, open houses and public comment meetings that people can attend, where they can give direct feedback to elected officials ...

‘Regulated’ utilities not working anymore

Recently, Mon Power and Hope Gas both filed with the Public Service Commission for rate increases — requests that were met with public indignation.  Figuring out how utilities get paid is complicated, but we’ve done our best to figure it out for you. In the simplest possible ...

June 11 letters to the editor

WVU should’ve known enrollment would drop  I am surprised that, as The Dominion Post reported on Wednesday, June 7, “Faculty question how the university got into a financial bind.”  For at least 10 years, there have been reports predicting that online, remote, higher ...