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Editorials

Rail Safety: Congress must act and pass legislation

In Lower Saucon Township, Pa., residents are awaiting the results of an investigation into yet another Norfolk Southern train derailment March 2. This one involved three trains and scattered rail cars along a riverbank. At least one was partially in the Lehigh River. So far, the National ...

COVID-19: Patience required as guidelines change

It took four long years, but U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are finally ready to recommend parents should treat COVID-19 and its variants like any other respiratory illness. It is no longer a federal recommendation that students undergo isolation periods and ...

High Points of the Valley

* Though it is narrower than it should have been, and those who forced its weakening with their opposition have some hard soul-searching to do about who they’re really in Charleston to protect, the West Virginia House of Delegates is to be commended for passing an amendment to a bill that ...

Orphan Wells: Cleanup could create career opportunities

Among the legacies of our region’s boom-and-bust reliance on fossil fuel industries are the hundreds of thousands of orphan wells that dot Appalachia. According to a report by The Center Square, the federal government has counted approximately 127,000 orphan wells nationwide. Reporting out of ...

Fire Season: Follow the rules and keep people safe

Today marks the start of the spring fire season in West Virginia. Despite the continued wet, cold weather, that also means the start of burning restrictions. Once again, residents are to restrict outdoor burning to between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. (meaning a fire started during those hours must be ...

Wise Choice: Lawmakers right to drop marriage exception

It may have gotten lost in the shuffle amid all the “what in the world is going on in Charleston?” but lawmakers got something right a few days ago when the state Senate passed a bill that removed the remaining marital exceptions in state law for sexual contact and certain sexual assault ...