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Girls Who Code show what public schools can do

Mylan Park Elementary’s Girls Who Code Club visited Charleston Monday for “Country Roads Codes Day at the Capitol.” While there, these girls spoke to legislators and visitors about the computer science program at “The Park,” as the elementary school is affectionately called, and ...

Guest essay: W.Va. flourishing as a right-to-work state

by Jordan Maynor In the years since West Virginia adopted right-to-work legislation, our state has witnessed a staggering influx of more than $12 billion in new business investments. This law undeniably has ushered in an era of unprecedented growth, luring companies that may not ...

Lawmakers ignored reclamation fund issues for 40 years

We’ve said it before: Coal companies would much rather go bankrupt and forfeit their reclamation bonds — a kind of security deposit — to the state than clean up their own abandoned mines, because the bonds are a fraction of the actual reclamation costs. Which is why it’s no ...