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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 ...

Where are the heroes our kids need?

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘it’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider these people my heroes.” — Fred Rogers For years, West Virginia ...

The importance of vaccinations

It’s late fall and all the seasonal illnesses are making their rounds: colds, flu, COVID, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and other respiratory viruses and infections. Unfortunately, modern medicine doesn’t have a preventative vaccine for everything that ails us, but it’s important ...