There’s been plenty of talk in the last few years about the cost of a college education, and the debt many students incur to fulfill their higher education dreams. Oddly, at the same time some scholarship-granting entities report they are seeing a decrease in the number of students applying ...
Now that the dust has settled, responsible adults have a duty to look back on what we witnessed during college football’s rivalry week and understand it was all part of a larger and very disturbing trend we MUST reverse. The Atlantic Coast Conference fined four of its schools — North ...
For decades, West Virginia’s representatives in Washington, D.C., tried to impress upon their colleagues the importance of directing more research funding to West Virginia University — where great progress is being made in fields ranging from neuroscience to forensic science to ...
* Local and regional economic development officials have done an excellent job cultivating relationships that bring new interest from those who might one day consider building (and employing) here. Last week, Keith Burdette, president of the West Virginia Polymer Alliance Zone and Lindsey ...
This week West Virginia prepared for the end of an era, as U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin gave his final speech on the floor of the Senate after having devoted his life to serving the state’s residents for more than 40 years. Manchin has been a stalwart for the Mountain State, at all levels — the ...
Mid-Ohio Valley residents know we are surrounded by people with enviable talents. Often it is easiest to focus on those with athletic ability or entrepreneurial prowess — and they are, indeed, worthy of our admiration. But last weekend we got a reminder of the incredible artistic gifts ...
