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McCuskey: Foundation decision may offer benefits

West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey made an important decision earlier this week, when he announced a change in the method of distribution for any future opioid settlement money to be received by the state. No longer will it be distributed by the purportedly private nonprofit West ...

Op-ed: Clearing up politicized myths on socialism

Every time the word “socialism” rises up in the public lexicon and reenters the zeitgeist, the myth machine goes into overdrive. The authoritarian right and so-called “moderate” or “centrist” Democrats and others like them engage in delusional scaremongering and spread all the ...

Editor's Notes: One foot in front of the other

Well, I did NOT go running down the big hill with my arms waving Muppet-style while yelling “Wheeeee!” but I did manage to finish this year’s News and Sentinel Half Marathon five minutes (ish) faster than last year – and ahead of 29 whole people! (The people who crossed the finish ...

Cracking the Code: Our superpower

One of my concerns on our U.S. Commercial Services Roadshow trip to Turkey earlier this year was language. I do not know any Turkish. In Istanbul and Ankara, the presentations were in English or they had a headset with a translator. In Koceali, our second stop, everything except our afternoon ...

Fun Times: Attracting, keeping residents requires effort

Most of us are proud of the state where we live for many reasons (and not so proud for others). But we don’t usually tend to think of our home territory as “fun” as compared with other places. California, for example, is ranked the most fun state in WalletHub’s “Most Fun States in ...