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West Virginia has taken a bold and necessary step in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens. Governor Patrick Morrisey’s executive …
When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced last week that the briefing room is now open to reporters for “new media,” includi…
At the beginning of a new year, most people find themselves looking forward and resolving to change their habits to improve their future.
West Virginia lawmakers, responding to the regional jail cost crisis faced by many counties, along with staffing and overpopulation concerns i…
He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry ... he is out of control ... you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a “dramatically disjointe…
Life is full of ups and downs, of periods of great joy and days we’d much sooner forget.
The push to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming has garnered significant attention, making DEI the “bogeyman” of government …
As I write this message to you, our neighbors, friends, and supporters, Fairmont State University is busy. We’re kicking off our spring semest…
Early in the 2024 WV Legislative session, the House passed HB 5540, better known as Laken’s Law. It was signed by the Governor in March and to…
In her homily at the inauguration last week, Bishop Budde pleaded with the returning president to have mercy on the less fortunate, those who …
According to the West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE), 241,024 children receive an education within the Mountain State.
WVU Medicine’s plan to build a new $233 million WVU Eye Institute is great news for a state facing significant medical challenges, particularl…
This past Monday evening, the West Virginia Black Heritage Festival hosted the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
Last month, The Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Mike Tony wrote an article about Community Air Monitoring and the involvement of environmental activ…
Donald Trump is executing a shock and awe strategy, burying the public in a smoky cloud of flamboyant proposals. Some, like ending birthright …
On Feb. 1, the Democratic National Committee will gather in suburban Maryland to elect a new chair. Every indication suggests they still don’t…
Elon Musk hailed Donald Trump’s second presidential term as “the return of the king,” and Trump is acting that way, governing as if he possess…
After nearly 17 months of stagnation, movement on the long-awaited new facility for Pierpont Community & Technical College’s Aviation Main…
The Justice Department has ordered its civil rights division to halt any ongoing litigation from the Biden administration and not pursue any n…
One of the things that frustrates so many people about Washington is its dysfunction. We are paying more and getting less. Another day older a…
Too many days and months of the year are dedicated to too many causes and people for me to keep up. But I do know it’s Girl Scout Cookie season.
There was no question that a second term for President Donald Trump in the White House would be disruptive. One only had to look at his first …
President Donald Trump’s firing of 18 inspectors general explicitly violates a law passed by Congress to protect these anti-corruption watchdo…
Not a month old, the second Trump presidency is barreling toward the decline that big-mouth leaders have been sending their countries for cent…
Over the past few weeks, as inclement weather added to everyday challenges, we’ve seen firsthand the dedication of our first responders, who o…
Often people of faith express hope for impressive and reassuring miracles like those found in the Bible.
When President Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Colombia if President Gustavo Petro did not accept criminal migrants deported from the U.S.…
According to the dictionary, a foodie is “a person keenly interested in food, especially in eating or cooking.”
The college football playoffs are in the books.
— A salute to the first responders and health care workers who went out in the weather when just about nobody else did. Their jobs are 365, 24…
Like much of the country, the beginning of 2025 has seen West Virginia charting a new course with new leadership and a revitalized economic agenda.
TORONTO — This is a big country with only one thing on its mind: Donald Trump.
As much as they appear to despise each other, departing President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump have plenty in common. Most recently bo…
State Sen. Charles Clements, R-Wetzel, is injecting a voice of reason into conversations about what the West Virginia Legislature’s approach t…
The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for t…
Donald Trump cannot Make America Great Again by shutting down one of this nation’s most vital sources of strength and vigor. His anti-immigran…
With President Donald Trump in office once again, there’s been a flurry of news about how he is reshaping the federal government to fit his vi…
It’s not hard to understand why Sen. Ruben Gallego voted for the Republican-written Laken Riley Act. The measure would force the federal deten…
We applaud new West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey, who has joined 22 other states in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency…
Pardons were flying all over Washington on Monday like a flock of birds, or airplanes during peak hours at Reagan airport.
Lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne wrote “Let it Snow!” in July 1945. The song’s first line is the literal definition of winter 2025 …
In a state facing numerous health challenges, one bright spot has been West Virginia’s high childhood vaccination rates.
President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became pre…
Every ending brings with it the possibility of new beginnings. The installation of new national leadership presents an opportunity for change …
In a speech filled with both hope and tinges of anger, President Donald Trump promised that a “golden age of America” begins immediately, expr…
According to the Frank Sinatra song, “Love is lovelier, the second time around.” We’ll see how that works out in the second coming of Donald. …
After losing population and jobs for decades, rural West Virginia is on the rebound. Projects like the Nucor sheet mill underway in Apple Grov…
As the years pass, we find ourselves living in a world that often prioritizes the present and looks toward the future. However, we must never …
More than a few West Virginians were unhappy with the way roads were cleared and treated during winter storms Blair and Cora.
— A salute to the WVU School of Nursing Bridgeport Campus’s graduates. They earned a 100% first-time pass rate on their nationwide licensing e…
In December, Michael Lee Murray bought a preowned, silver Subaru Outback at a dealership in Utah.
In the White House, the walls don’t have ears. They have voices.
If the forecast is right, we should see some warmer temperatures today. But it’s likely to rain.
As mid-January tests New Year’s resolutions across the region, many may be weakening in their resolve. Certainly that must include some who vo…
“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.”
The world should hope that a temporary ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, set to begin Sunday and last an initial 42 days, will mark the…
Walking is more than a simple physical activity. It is defined as moving at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, neve…
It’s easy to despise Elon Musk as a supremely loathsome power-mad egomaniac. But he’s also the richest man in the world, and he got that way b…
West Virginia has good law enforcement officers. We need more of them. Their pursuit of justice and peace serves the most vulnerable members o…
With winter weather flexing its might this January, West Virginia’s school systems — and more importantly, the students they serve — are facin…
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced last week in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected Democratic distri…
Who remembers Donald Trump’s first inaugural address? Probably not very many, unless they have Googled it, as I did. That’s likely because aft…
Last week, kids grounded from school by snow found other, creative ways to spend their time. Videos of the “Snow Angel Challenge” went viral a…
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
We recall the catastrophic fires in Maui almost two years ago, then the horde of unusually violent hurricanes trashing Florida’s west coast. T…
As a new Congress (was) sworn in Friday, this might seem like a bad time to talk about raising federal lawmakers’ pay. A government funding pa…
For the past eight years, Gov. Jim Justice often compared himself to a sports coach, drawing parallels to his time coaching at Greenbrier East…
It seems we live in an era of acceptance of less-than-perfect outcomes in many areas and situations of life. We usually know the correct and p…
When a politician says “don’t politicize” a significant event like the fires that have swept Los Angeles County, it’s a good bet they are atte…
We’re now in a new era in the Harrison County judiciary.
Last week, West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw issued a release detailing the new and returning House leadership for the in…
— A salute to the The City of Bridgeport and The Bridge Sports Complex, for landing a $1.8 million state grant that will help add two outdoor,…
After eight years of largely successful leadership under Gov. Jim Justice and his team of administrators, West Virginia begins a new chapter a…
As we start a new year, the Christmas and New Year holidays — as well as a week of being shut-in due to “Old Man Winter” — we have time to pau…
In October, Chapman University listed results from its survey of the top fears for Americans in 2024. I would imagine the same concerns carry …
Joe Biden was 26 then, fresh out of law school with the Delaware bar exam behind him, and a Michel Legrand song began playing on the radio of …
It is both disheartening and ironic that the Harrison County Commission is delaying its decision on Sheriff Robert Matheny II’s request to hir…
The courts are slowly catching up with the many illegal Biden Administration rules, and on Thursday the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals cleaned…
The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkl…
It’s a common and correct impression that Donald Trump is a man without principles, but he actually does have one immutable guideline: Anythin…
On Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on X, “Is there a single person in DC or media acting as if Literal Adolf Hitler is about to assum…
West Virginia House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, has long been recognized as a strong policymaker and a capable leader, successfully uniting…
Young men are not launching — that is, growing up as traditionally holds — at the same rate as young women. Among Americans ages 25 to 34, abo…
Among the many laws that took effect at the beginning of this new year is one in New Jersey that will astound and should anger people with chi…
About this time in every new year, I cozy up to the fire and put significant dates on my calendar. You may want to do the same. Feel free to s…
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