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Opinion

Pressure: Miner health programs must be protected

Editorials

As efforts from Washington, D.C., to reduce the size of the federal government continue with a sense of urgency that has yielded mixed results, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., was right to urge U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reverse ...

Editor’s Notes: Trusting a strange computer

Local columns

One of my favorite things is to have negative preconceived notions about an event or interaction and be proved spectacularly wrong. I was lucky enough to have that happen to me yet again this past week when I attended an event during which West Virginia University journalism students presented ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: What’s food got to do with it?

Local columns

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” — Albert Einstein *** Anyone with a sincere interest in mitigating Climate Change, may wonder what they can do on a personal level. Admittedly, few ...

Op-ed: How to fix our public schools

Local columns

Today’s op/ed is not going to be well received by a number of my readers. What you’re about to learn are my beliefs pertaining to educating our students based on my practical experiences as a teacher, administrator, coach, and athletic official. To digress a bit, many contemporary ...

Op-ed: The time for financial literacy is now

Local columns

Our children spend an enormous part of their early years learning everything from science to math to the history of our country. But as test scores have become a baseline for success, soft skills seemed to have gone by the wayside. In the past several decades, students who graduated from our ...

Letter to the Editor: Stand up for our America

Letters to the editor

Saw Riley Moore on MSNBC news standing at the El Salvadoran prison where (Kilmar Abrego) was sent by Trump illegally to that prison. Even the SCOTUS ruled that he is to be returned immediately. Yet, Trump has defied the court’s order. Think about that. A U.S. citizen expecting to go home to ...