The Parkersburg City Council regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 24, wasn’t entirely contentious and unpleasant. Council did vote 7-1 (with only District 3 Councilman Roger Brown voting “no” and District 6 Councilman Mike Reynolds absent) to reinstate open public forum, wherein members of ...
If West Virginia lawmakers are looking to reduce rates on something, there is another issue that should be commanding their attention. The Mountain State’s foster care rate is eight times the national average. It is one of the few categories in which we are — shamefully — first in the ...
More than three years after a disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Congress has continued to sit on its hands rather than upset its friends in the railroad industry by implementing desperately needed rail safety reform. Well, most of Congress, anyway. A few have repeatedly tried to ...
One of the biggest battles of the cold war with the Soviet Union occurred not on the battlefield but on the ice of a smallish hockey rink in the quiet village of Lake Placid, New York. Forty-six years ago, a group of young men, the youngest ever sent to the Olympics by the United States, ...
Del. David McCormick, R-Monongalia, chose a soft target with his Vape Safety Act — House Bill 5437 — perhaps hoping state House of Delegates committee members would not look too carefully at the language he wielded or be affected by the dog whistles he was blowing. First, it is important ...
There is good reason House Bill 5168 passed out of the House of Delegates without a single vote against on Monday. It is one of the very few, genuine no-brainers to come before lawmakers in recent years. HB 5168 would establish a permanent funding stream for EMS workers across the state — ...
