“Maybe we need to blow this b-tch up.” Five years ago, that was the considered opinion of comedian Mike Yard, a panelist on Larry Wilmore’s old Comedy Central program, “The Nightly Show.” It came as candidate Bernie Sanders absorbed a crushing primary defeat in New York and it ...
by Debilyn Molineaux I call our current political environment “Primaryland.” What happens in the primaries will determine our direction as a nation. The general election merely makes that direction official. This is why we all need to plan our trip to Primaryland in the 2022 ...
Preston County’s voting systems were publicly tested on Friday in preparation for early voting, which starts April 27. Seven different ballots — one of each kind — were tested to ensure a variety of parameters were met, Kim Dixon, deputy county clerk said. County Clerk Linda ...
by Judy K. Ball According to Kermit the frog, it’s not easy being green. For the League of Women Voters, it’s not easy being non-partisan, especially in the toxic and polarized political world we navigate today. Yet, being non-partisan is as essential to the League’s nature as ...
In our (hopefully) last The Good, the Bad and the Stupid for the year, we’re going to introduce you to some of West Virginia’s new laws. To keep things consistent, we’ve labeled each bill as “good,” “bad” or “stupid” based on how we’ve categorized it in the past. Good: ...
by Lynn Schmidt Horseshoes may be good for horses and fun to play with, but they are terrible for politics. In political science there is an assertion called the Horseshoe Theory. The thesis posits that the political spectrum is not linear but shaped like the bend of a horseshoe, ...