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Oct. 8 letters to the editor

What’s good for the world is good for W.Va. It often goes unrealized how addressing global poverty has an economic benefit to the United States. Likewise, it is often overestimated the amount of money the U.S. government puts toward foreign aid and development. Most Americans believe ...

Oct. 1 letters to the editor

Regarding WVU cuts to library funding I had to laugh when I read The Dominion Post story “Transformation moves on to Academic Units” (9-21-23) about cuts to library funding as part of the “Academic Transformation” project. First, I laughed when Mark Gavin was quoted as saying ...

Student no-shows are a chronic problem in our schools

West Virginia has too many children who fail to show up for school on a regular basis. Data from the state’s 2022-23 Balanced Scorecard find that 28% of K-12 students are chronically absent, meaning they miss more than 10% of the instructional days. That number is about the same as the ...

WVU students petition, plan walkouts against proposed cutbacks

Students at West Virginia University are speaking out against the proposed program cutbacks announced by university leaders last week. The proposed cutbacks would discontinue 32 of 338 Morgantown campus majors and potentially eliminate 169 faculty positions. A change.org petition titled ...

246 earn diplomas Thursday in commencement exercises

KINGWOOD — The parking lots were filled, and people were finding spots wherever they could an empty space could be found Thursday evening. They were all there to see their son, daughter, grandchild, and in some cases great-grandchild graduate from Preston High School. This year, ...