by Angela Hawse Growing up surrounded by the Allegheny Mountains, I am the sixth generation of my family to climb trees, explore hardwood forests and float down pristine rivers in […]
Tag: reconciliation
Trick spending bills are nothing more than voodoo economics
The annual “trick-or-treat” ritual is over. Not so the “tricks” perpetuated by congressional Democrats about their tax-and-spend ritual, and their phony numbers. Consider the latest spending measure cobbled together by […]
What Joe Manchin doesn’t want
I usually get one or two calls a week from national reporters who are doing stories about Joe Manchin. Typically, this question comes up concerning the ongoing budget negotiations: “So, […]
Looking for fiscal restraint? Ask a Democrat
by Lynn Schmidt I think I am living in an alternate reality. How is it that one of the most outspoken, principled, fiscally conservative members of Congress is a Democrat? […]
Guest essay: To beat the opioid crisis, lift people out of poverty
by Dr. Erin Winstanley What is the best thing we can do to address the opioid epidemic? I’ve been asked this question countless times. The best answer that I have […]
An open letter to our Congress members
Dear West Virginia’s U.S. Senators and Representatives, The residents of the state you represent — and who elected you to represent us on the national stage — kindly ask you […]
Sept. 26 letters to the editor
Manchin voting on W.Va. youths’ future As a West Virginia resident and person who has family in West Virginia, I unfortunately will have to leave the state unless Sen. Manchin […]
$3.5T plan is about to get a trim
by Doyle McManus The battle over Democrats’ ambitious spending plan is heating up in Congress, but one piece of the outcome is already clear: The $3.5 trillion price tag is […]
‘He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands’
We have heard over and over how West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin occupies a strategically powerful position. The 50-50 tie in the Senate means President Joe Biden and the Democrats […]
The great Democratic panic
by Byron York President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer have based the future of the entire Democratic agenda on a trick. And now […]
