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Elder Abuse: Strong protections could still be improved

It’s easy to pick out areas in which we wish West Virginia and Ohio were doing better for residents. The list is long and varied. But in one category, both states are doing quite well. In WalletHub’s list of “States With the Best Elder-Abuse Protections,” the Buckeye State is 4th in ...

Education: PACF has scholarship money available

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 ...

Violence: Sports fans, show some self-restraint

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 ...

Research: Marshall, WVU doing amazing work

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 ...

High Points of the Valley

* 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 ...

Manchin: Senator worked hard for West Virginia

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 ...