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Red Cross: Your donations can save lives

When the Red Cross of the Ohio River Valley needs our help, it is often in the form of blood donations and filling volunteer opportunities. But tomorrow is Red Cross Giving Day — a chance for us to support this vital organization with financial donations, too. “This year’s disasters ...

High Points of the Valley

* North Star Child Advocacy Center had a chance last week to show the West Virginia First Foundation the potential impact of a grant it had awarded. In showing Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Board around its facility, North Star representatives also got to learn more about the ...

Education: Lawmaker power grab should be rejected

For a group so fond of dragging out terms such as “nanny state” and “overreach” when the mood suits them, it should be more of a surprise when they push measures meant to claw control of local decision-making back for themselves. But members of the West Virginia Legislature have ...

Stunts: West Virginia lawmakers must address real needs

One is tempted to wonder who in the motorcycle insurance industry got hold of state lawmakers this year, after discussion of a couple of motorcycle-related ideas in the House of Delegates. House Bill 2752 has actually been dubbed a “freedom from leg cramps bill” by state Del. Chris ...

Vaccines: Exemption’s removal was the right call

Members of West Virginia’s House Health and Human Services Committee have injected a measure of common sense responsibility into the conversation about vaccine requirements for public and private school students in the state. When state Senate Bill 460 made its way over to the House of ...

NCAA: Morrisey’s tantrum serves no good purpose

Mountaineers — always free, sure; but also, always willing to be good sports, take responsibility, accept when things don’t go our way without whining about it, and focus on what is really important for our state and our families. We don’t run to legal action and investigations every ...