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Area couple ready to open their doors to war refugees

“Home is where the heart is” — that’s not just needlepoint on a pillow for Hilda Heady. In fact, the retired WVU social worker and rural health administrator wants to make the above adage a real-world address for a Ukrainian displaced by war sometime soon. Heady and her husband, ...

As Biden’s son is investigated, Joe is staying out of it

It’s still unclear whether the smoke around Hunter Biden’s foreign financial connections actually indicates a fire. That’s what federal investigators are (and should be) exploring. But here’s what’s already clear about the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son: The ...

A war fought with tanks and bombs and Russian lies

As the saying goes, when someone shows you who they are, believe them. And Russia has shown itself, on numerous occasions now, to be a habitual liar. It started before the war in Ukraine even began, when Russia insisted the forces it had amassed on the border would be falling back; ...

President Biden can’t handle his job

by Jay Ambrose Someone forgot to tie him to his Oval Office chair, and so it was that President Joe Biden took off for Europe to discuss the Ukraine horror with NATO and European leaders, visit Poland and fumble enough rhetorically to conceivably make the situation worse. He said ...

Senators: renew emphasis on energy production

West Virginia’s senators have taken this inflection point of national energy policy to advance an “all-of-the-above strategy” while also promoting continued use of fossil fuels. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican, have described similar energy ...

Speaking Russian doesn’t make me a supporter of Putin’s war

by Ruth Madievsky While celebrating Purim with my family last week, I learned that our friend Daniel Lerman’s business has received 20-30 threatening calls and emails a day, as well as a cadre of negative online reviews. He owns Russian Universal Services, which helps Russian ...