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Look Back: Heroics and matters of the heart

Handsomely Rewarded — A Young Man Saves a Train and Gets a Gold Watch One night about a week ago a tremendous mass of earth and rocks slipped down onto the track of the O.R.R.R. a short distance this side of New Martinsville. E.E. Williams, a young farmer living in that neighborhood, ...

Editor’s Notes: Using ‘patriotism’ as a club

Slapping the word “patriot” on things that are emblematic of anything but the behavior of a person who is truly patriotic seems to have become a favorite hobby of a few politicians who have forgotten who they were elected to serve and the founding principles they are bound to ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: Climate change and children’s health

I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is. — Greta Thunberg, Swedish activist *** Children are uniquely vulnerable to climate change. In many parts of the world, people are facing multiple climate-related events such as severe drought, flooding, air pollution and water ...

Op-ed: Hello, West Virginia

If we haven’t met, I would like to introduce myself. I am Michael T. Benson — you can call me “Mike” — president of West Virginia University. I officially started July 15 and I am amazed at how three decades of work in higher education across the United States have brought me, step ...

Op-ed: Push back on efforts to change voting

A recent social media update from the Alt National Park Service brought to light an extremely disturbing effort being made by the Trump regime regarding elections administration and voting. The post reads, in part: “Federal agencies, led by the Department of Justice, have requested full ...