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Home-schooled girl found dead. When will enough be enough?

Last week, a 14-year-old girl was found dead in her Boone County home. Her body was “skeletal” and “emaciated,” and it’s reported she starved to death. Her mother has been arrested on charges of child neglect resulting in death. Family members have identified the teen as Kyneddi ...

No one hates their jobs more than West Virginia workers

Data released in March suggests that West Virginians hate their jobs more than anyone else in the nation. We’re not surprised. First, about the data: The career coaching organization Cultivated Career collected 260,000 geotagged posts from X (Twitter) that mentioned certain key words, ...

A look at campaign finances for three local state Senate races

MORGANTOWN – In three local state Senate races, only one features a primary election race. Two feature Senate committee chairs. And two will essentially be decided in the primary, set for May 14. This is a look at campaign finances for the 2nd, 13th and 14th Senate districts, from the ...

Legislators messed up PODA. They need to fix it

The thing about legalese — that strange, mysterious language of laws and binding contracts — is that all it takes is one misplaced punctuation mark, one misspelled word or one accidental phrase substitution to completely change the document’s meaning. Such was the case with HB 5295, ...

With solar veto, Justice put self ahead of state

Gov. Jim Justice went on a vetoing spree last week, shooting down the vaccine exemption bill but also killing the research funding for the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute and solar power expansion for the state’s utilities. We’ve already applauded the first and lamented the second, ...