This letter is being offered to notify you that I am giving my total endorsement and support to Jeffrey Sandy in his bid to run for the West Virginia House of Delegates. I first met Jeff when he was a young Treasury Special Agent and I was a young West Virginia State Trooper. It was the 1970s ...
Sen. Michael Azinger has written a passionate op-ed in these pages about protecting West Virginia taxpayers from wasteful government spending on advertising. It’s a worthy goal. There’s just one problem: The supposed villain of his story — NewsGuard, where I work — has received ...
I’m a little slow on the uptake for this one — what? It’s been a busy few … years — but I’m just catching up to the news that someone had to file a lawsuit to ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether to protect the yellow-spotted woodland salamander. You know the ...
This week marked another busy week of action under the dome. We are quickly approaching the final weeks of the 2026 Legislative Session as crossover day was Wednesday. The Senate passed SB 59, relating to voter eligibility and residency requirements. The bill tightens up residency ...
Political and military turmoil sets us all on edge — and there is no doubt the events of the last several years combined with the pervasive nature of social media already have our collective mental health and ability to interact with one another civilly in a fragile state. Wood County ...
As I write, four Americans have now given their lives in this new war. We mourn for the patriots who raised their right hands and took an oath to put everything on the line, willing to go wherever their government said they were needed, sacrificing all for our country. The president (a ...
