MORGANTOWN – Rep. Alex Mooney talked with The Dominion Post this week about some of his legislation, his recent visit to Morgantown and his time on the campaign trail. On July 27, Mooney introduced a House resolution to eliminate the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and 15 GOP ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf For the past two years, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conducted a political science class in how to manage the House of Representatives with a bare four-seat majority. The result, backed by a Democratic White House and Senate, has been a spate of ...
Last Tuesday, the U.S. House passed a bill dealing with “behavioral health and well-being among health care professionals,” which certainly sounds like an important topic. The bill was named for Lorna Breen, a physician who committed suicide in the face of the COVID-19 ...
Mindy Salango is a Morgantown resident who lives with Type 1 diabetes. Salango is a mom, has a full-time job with health insurance and still struggles to afford her medications. She said she pays about $350 a month for her life-saving insulin and daily supplies. Salango has been a ...
MORGANTOWN – The Legislature passed two bills during Monday's brief special session to appropriate $150 million of Fiscal Year 2021 surplus funds for Division of Highways maintenance projects in all 55 counties. Gov. Jim Justice announced the plan last week and included it in his special ...
Ignoring racism in history not the answer Cynthia M. Allen worries about “... an unrelenting effort by a powerful few to frame everything ... through the lens of race” (DP-05-12-21). Candidates for a school board race in a “wealthy, well-educated and white” Texas suburb defeated ...