MORGANTOWN – Only a handful of Morgantown-area legislative races are competitive this year. A look at their campaign finances suggests the advantages of incumbency – for candidates of both parties – and what it takes money-wise to make an impact. The numbers come from the candidates' ...
Now that college students are back on campus and classes are in full swing, let’s talk about campus carry — the shorthand for a slew of policies created by the Campus Self-Defense Act inflicted on our public universities by the West Virginia Legislature. We would understand the state ...
The West Virginia Legislature and Gov. Jim Justice have been effective tax cutters. In 2023, the Legislature passed a bill reducing the state’s five marginal tax rates by 21.25%. That law also put in place a formula whereby if certain financial benchmarks were met, the rates would ...
WV Department of Health and Human Resources The above map shows counties ranked by vulnerability to overdose mortality from all drugs. Dark red indicates the highest vulnerability to overdose deaths while light green indicates the lowest. Data from this map comes from 2017, the last time a ...
MORGANTOWN – Last week we presented a story with two WVU professors sharing their views on some issues deriving from the state's new raw milk law: health concerns and the difficulty in obtaining liability insurance. Ringer Farms in Bruceton Mills is a small producer and seller of raw ...
Israeli-Palestinian conflict a modern one In a recent letter to the editor, it is implied that the history of this conflict stems back to ancient, biblical times. However, this conflict is a modern one that is about territory, power and control. Certainly, religious identities are a ...