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United Front: Working together gets the job done

Bipartisan efforts to address housing accessibility and affordability are becoming more common, though many are at the state level. Now federal legislation introduced by U.S. Sens. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., could help increase home ownership in rural regions by expanding ...

Letter to the Editor: Thank you

I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation and gratitude to the VA and their employees for all that they do. Thank you to the administrators, doctors, lab technicians and all other support staff. I recently experienced a condition with my skin. It was the first time since ...

Letter to the Editor: Thankful to be here

Yesterday we were extremely lucky that our daughter came by when she did. I’ve had two stoves in my kitchen for over 40 years. I love them. I can bake a ham in one oven and bread in the other while cooking 6 or 7 different side dishes on the cook tops for big dinners. Yesterday I had gotten ...

Backyard Gardener: Ornamental trees to replace the Callery pear

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Everyone is enjoying the beauty of spring flowering trees and shrubs around the Mid-Ohio Valley. This spring you will notice hundreds of white blooming trees along the highway, interstate and even in rural areas. Many of these white blooms belong ...

Purple Up: Recognizing students from military families

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 ...

Overreach: Feds have no right to our full voter data

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 ...