“I can see the future. And it’s full of pals helping pals.” *** Just because you bury something doesn’t mean it is gone. It is simply out of sight. It is aggressively dismissed. It is forcibly relegated to “away.” But with that being said, it is still there. I have experienced ...

Here we go again, the merry-go-round that simply will not end. If it seems like I’ve written a whole column on the efforts by some to eliminate West Virginia’s certificate of need law, I did back in March. Remember, I got to shoehorn in a “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” reference. ...

The following are excerpts from appendix XI of Dave McKain and Bernie Allen’s book, “Where It All Began.” The reporter, on a mission to document and share about the oil regions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, has left the Pennsylvania oil fields and begun his journey to Burning ...

Whoever wrote the Appalachian Regional Commission’s report “Classifying Economic Distress in Appalachian Counties” for fiscal year 2026 declares that ours is “a region of great opportunity,” while reminding readers of the agency’s mission to help Appalachia achieve socioeconomic ...

It has become obvious that the Trump administration as well as Republicans in Ohio and West Virginia no longer believe their own mantra “all of the above” when it comes to energy sources. Instead, this administration has put a halt to as many renewable energy projects as possible and is now ...

Why is the United States Constitution the world’s longest surviving written charter of government in the world? Could it be because of the three branches of government, mapped out in Articles, I, II and III, providing the checks and balances to ensure power is shared? Or is it the states’ ...