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Letter to the Editor: Cooperate to finish P2P

There is a little known effort called the P2P initiative, a cooperation between Pennsylvania and West Virginia to build a 180-mile-long rail trail connecting Pittsburgh’s Point Park to the Point at Parkersburg. To complete this trail as part of a 1,500 mile network from New York to Ohio ...

Editor's Notes: Harm reduction effort working

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data included some good news for the Mountain State, as numbers from October 2024 through September 2025 showed a dramatic reduction in opioid overdose deaths. Vital Statistics Rapid Release data shows there were an estimated 2,042 opioid ...

Cleanup: Adopt-a-Highway event needs volunteers

Did warmer weather have you flinging open your windows and getting a jump-start on spring cleaning recently? If you’ve already started planning for that annual home reset, it’s time to start planning for how to help West Virginia’s highways get a clean start to the spring/summer travel ...

Unlucky: Be responsible; don’t drink and drive

One of our state’s biggest holidays for cultural appropriation (suddenly everyone is Irish) is just around the corner as many of us make our plans for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. The Governor’s Highway Safety Program has rightly chosen March 13-17 for a “Buzzed Driving Is Drunk ...