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Letter to the Editor: Where is the outrage?

Working people in our state should be angry. If you work in a factory, drive a truck, stock shelves, work construction, care for patients, or run a small business, you are expected to show up and do your job. Try telling your employer you’re going home for weeks while there’s still work ...

Letter to the Editor: Time to clean up

Clean up America the beautiful. How to achieve it? Have plenty of physical help. Start off in West Virginia to pick up tons of miscellaneous litter and trash laying around. All 55 counties in West Virginia along every road and over guardrails is way out of sight, unless you get out of the ...

Letter to the Editor: Don’t sit it out

Your Sept. 9 editorial “Elections: Get off the sidelines and vote,” was right on the money. Local elections are often decided by a handful of votes. And some are resolved by a flip of a coin. Your point was that if voters sit on the sidelines, they allow extreme voters at both ends of the ...

Op-ed: West Virginia’s AI future depends on 7,000 bridges

When Sen. Shelley Moore Capito toured the site of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in July, she stood beside a $5.2 billion reminder of what happens when a critical link in America’s transportation system disappears. A cargo ship brought the bridge down in March 2024. ...

Editor's Notes: Fighting fear with curiosity

It’s the season for ghost stories and haunted attractions, pumpkins, costumes and candy — and the kind of weather that makes people say “What a gorgeous day!” for a week straight. (Hold on to this in December-February). It’s funny. There are plenty of people ready to escape the ...