Last week’s legislative interim meetings were a bit of a let down for the press and the general public, and perhaps lawmakers themselves, though that is unclear. It was a traveling interim set among the mountains of Tucker County at Canaan Valley Resort State Park. Sunday and Tuesday ...

Drive-ins usually showed two features plus a cartoon. With few exceptions, once darkness arrived the movie would begin, as the ads say, “come rain or shine.” A memorable experience of going to a drive-in was that car windows were usually left down, except for the one on which the speaker ...

Happy West Virginia Day, happy Juneteenth, happy Father’s Day, welcome to the start of summer … it’s a lot to cram into one weekend. You’d think a column writer would be able to land on one topic, wouldn’t you? You would be wrong, about this writer, anyway. In fact, it’s tempting ...

Plastic is everywhere. Some uses are beneficial and unavoidable, like the specialty plastics that enable contact lenses and lightweight eyeglasses. Other uses are less beneficial but often seem almost equally unavoidable. Take grocery shopping as an example. Unless we milk our own cows, make ...

We have now passed the June 15 deadline marking the end of the application period for 100% funding of the Hope Scholarship program for the 2026-2027 school year. This year’s application closure is distinct from the rest because it is the first year of universal eligibility, meaning that every ...

MetroNews Talkline cohost T.J. Meadows has been quite up in arms lately about what he refers to as the progressive left or, as in one Facebook post from T.J., “Washington Liberals,” and their criticism of Elon Musk becoming the world’s first official trillionaire. He is just indignant ...