Breaking News

Rural Health: Addressing nursing shortage is vital

Among the projects under West Virginia’s Rural Health Transformation Program is Mountain State Care Force, which is meant to address the shortage of healthcare workers in many of our communities. This week, the initiative awarded $201,403 to the WVU Medicine Center for Nursing Education, ...

Sum Consideration: Consider value, burden before taking on student loan debt

It seems as though the school year has just gotten under way, but families across our region are beginning conversations about next steps with students who will graduate in the spring. Part of that conversation will inevitably be, “Can we afford college?” For generations, part of the ...

Save a Life Day: Annual event offers training, overdose prevention

It’s no surprise an observance such as today’s Save A Life Day was born in West Virginia — a state ravaged to a greater degree than any other by the substance abuse epidemic that continues to plague us. From a humble pilot meant to increase access to naloxone and help prevent overdose ...

Support the Red Cross any way you can this month

September is National Preparedness Month. Local residents who have experienced an unusually wet and stormy summer are already experiencing a taste of what some regions must be prepared for constantly. And with those storms and floods came the reminder: Disasters can strike anyone, at any ...

Debt to Constituents: Politicians must turn focus to costs

While politicians continue to behave as though they think our priorities are socio-cultural issues and remaining as divided as possible, ordinary people are trying to survive in a world where the challenges are something more along the lines of “Do I have enough money to fill up the gas tank ...

High Points of the Valley

* With the help of West Virginia University-Parkersburg, Metallica’s All Within My Hands program continues to make a difference for local students and our economy. The program’s Metallica Scholars Initiative is in its eighth year at WVUP, and this year includes nursing and healthcare, ...