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March On: It’s up to us to continue King’s work

Monday may be the official celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S., but Jan. 15 marked the 96th anniversary of his birth. Though King wasn’t yet 40 years old when he was gunned down in Memphis, he and others of his era inspired generations to continue the fight for civil ...

Education: Essay contest offers cash opportunity

Think about how many times, during your elementary school years, an adult asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up. For many of us, there were the standard shoot-for-the-moon answers (sometimes maybe literally), but also a real beginning of pondering what was possible. That’s why ...

Tobacco: Smoking is costing us in lives and money

As mid-January tests New Year’s resolutions across the region, many may be weakening in their resolve. Certainly that must include some who vowed this is the year to give up smoking. To add a little incentive to the effort, WalletHub took a look at the true cost of tobacco use. The dollar ...

Leadership: Elected officials have work ahead

Gov. Patrick Morrisey gave us a peek at his inspiration when he touched on points from the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush during his inauguration ceremony Monday. Rather than Reagan’s “shining city on a hill,” Morrisey repeatedly referred to West ...

Credit Score: Ranking shows work needed on economy

Some of us may have shied away from looking at our credit scores once we finished our holiday shopping, but WalletHub took a look anyway and found perhaps we’d better do a little work. In “States With the Largest Credit Score Decreases,” West Virginia ranked 11th in the country. The ...

High Points of the Valley

* As part of her president’s report to the West Virginia University at Parkersburg board of governors last week, WVUP President Torie Jackson read some of the results of an exercise in which students were asked to respond to the prompt “first generation.” Some of those responses were ...