by Chris Vognar Publisher’s Weekly recently reported that book sales for the first half of the year are down once again, continuing a trend that has accelerated since the pandemic. As usual, I seem to be out of step. After a few years of joining the Kindle cult, I am back to my ...
The Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place was campaign headquarters this week in an ongoing war on intellect that was mainly started by COVID-19. Said war is for the benefit of young minds in classrooms. Young minds trying to get locked back onto reading and math, ...
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 ...
West Virginia State School Board President Paul Hardesty, during an interview on Talkline, was blunt in his assessment of the just-released National Assessment of Educational Progress test results for our state. “They suck,” he said. “I mean, they’re dismal. They’re not good … ...
by Robin Abcarian I remember the magnificent moment I realized my niece could read. She was 6, and had come for the weekend. It was bedtime and we were reading “Make Way for Ducklings,” the children’s classic about the mallard couple who waddle around Boston trying to find ...
MORGANTOWN -- The book-loving members of The Literary Society are old souls, even if most of them are just 16 or 17, tops. Those old souls are reaching out in a literacy-promoting event this week in Morgantown, but first, some backstory. Around twice a month or so, the society, whose ...