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Opinion

Reporter’s Notebook: The action of inaction

Local columns

We can now put a bow on the now-completed 2026 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature now that Gov. Patrick Morrisey has acted on most of the 306 bills passed during the 60-day time period between Jan. 14 and March 14. Morrisey had 15 days, not counting Sundays, following the sine ...

Look Back: Baseball season in the Mid-Ohio Valley

Local columns

Parkersburg Is Spring Training Site Even though they may at times push themselves through a blanket of snow, “Easter flowers” have always been a harbinger of spring. And then, as if stirred by months of winter repose by the pretty yellow flowers, ballplayers, the knights of the diamond, ...

Easter: Carry the day’s lessons with you

Editorials

For Christians, Sunday is the holiest day of the year — Easter. It is a day of celebration; commemorating the resurrection of the Son. For millennia, this season has also been a time to celebrate the return of the sun, when our minds are on a kind of rebirth and living again in the ...

Editor’s Notes: Reforestation project has room to grow

Local columns

If you drive long enough in West Virginia during the bare, gray winter months — when there is no foliage to obscure the view of mangled mountaintops and bare hillsides — you can’t help but notice humans and nature have taken their toll on huge swaths of land. Just a few days ago I was ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: No kings, no exceptions

Local columns

Easter is the most important day in the year for Christians. It commemorates the state torture and execution of a political protester and agitator, Jesus of Nazareth, more than 2,000 years ago — and the disappearance of his body two days later. No one could have anticipated that minor event ...

Letter to the Editor: Cooperation is the key

Letters to the editor

This letter is in response to the letter titled “Can I trust the police?” in the Sunday, March 15, newspaper. The author wrote she watched on TV as armed men broke into homes without judicial warrants, marched half-naked citizens down the streets to detention centers across the country and ...