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Strategies: Understanding data is vital to anti-drug effort

Members of the West Virginia First Foundation are not taking a “mission accomplished, time to call it a day” approach to recent data that shows a continued decrease in drug overdose deaths in the Mountain State. Instead, they are working to understand the data and build on each ...

High Points of the Valley

* It is exciting news to learn five commercial air service providers were interested in bidding for a contract with the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport. Companies must understand the importance of adding a service region like ours to their portfolio. “We did receive greater interest than ...

Pressure: Miner health programs must be protected

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 ...

Cleanup: Take advantage of Drug Take Back Day

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration calls our country’s substance abuse epidemic “a clear and present public health, public safety and national security threat.” No one needs to tell those living in our region that. We see it every day. And most of us wonder whether there is ...

Work Zones: Stay alert and drive carefully

They say the state flower of West Virginia could be orange construction barrels, given the number of them that pop up as the weather allows for continued work on our Roads to Prosperity. Certainly, if you’ve tried traveling across the state recently, the delays and changes in route can be ...

Walking: Mountaineer Mile program is a good step

Last week, Gov. Patrick Morrisey ramped up his health initiatives with a new challenge for West Virginians — get out and walk in our beautiful state. His Mountaineer Mile challenge has expanded to include 32 of our state parks, in which it is fairly easy to find incredible places to walk ...