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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...