Educators across the state understand each child comes to the classroom with different experiences. They try to meet the needs of individuals even while they’re teaching many students at once. Some of those children are part of military families, with their own set of challenges. During ...
Federal officials continue to behave as though they have the right to demand access to West Virginia’s full unredacted voter registration database. Earlier this week, U.S. Department of Justice attorneys filed a memorandum asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West ...
When Rufus Putnam and his group of men set out to form Marietta 228 years ago, they did a little shopping along the way to make sure they would have enough to eat. Among their purchases was 500 pounds of hard bread and a firkin of butter. Last year I wrote a long account of their April 1788 ...
Time and again, I have written about the wisdom of having a well-written, comprehensive Durable Power of Attorney (DPA), which is a document in which you give permission to those helpers you chose to help you manage your finances, real estate and other business affairs in life. Rather than ...
Last week, two West Virginia communities suffered losses that have become much rarer — thank goodness — but still are thought of as something to be accepted as a risk taken by those who work in our coal industry. Two coal miners died within a 24-hour stretch late last week — Thursday ...
Local residents know something about the importance of celebrating and educating about the earthworks that enhanced this region’s landscape long before the Ohio Company showed up. But even if many of ours are no longer fully visible, there are still spots in the Buckeye State where Hopewell ...
