An editorial by The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The Huntington Police Department got a healthy dose of criticism last week after officers shot and killed a black bear roaming the city’s Southside neighborhood. Many residents commented online that they felt the bear should have been tranquilized and relocated without the loss[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
Supreme Court hands EPA a welcome rebuke
An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week that the Environmental Protection Agency did not properly consider economic costs in its Mercury and Air Toxic Standards rule is rightly being hailed as a needed rebuke to an out-of-control administrative agency. The MATS[Read More…]
Flying the Confederate flag is different
An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After a crazed racist who wrapped himself in the Confederate flag massacred nine blacks at a South Carolina church, those defiant banners are being removed across the South. Great. They should come down, because flying the rebel flag became a symbol of[Read More…]
Federal agency wasting money on corridor study
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — It often seems as though government organizations search out ways to throw away money. Take, for example, the Appalachian Development Highway System, established by Congress 50 years ago, to increase economic development in isolated Appalachian regions, through improved infrastructure.[Read More…]
Founders would be appalled
A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — What would Patrick Henry say today? “Give me liberty or give me death?” Nah. More like, “Give me liberty or, heck, let me trade that for a government that promises to protect me from lemonade.” Next weekend[Read More…]
Good, bad news in Supreme Court marriage ruling
An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The good news in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down states’ bans on same sex marriage is that it confirms that government has no right to decide who should be marrying whom. “No union is more profound than marriage, for it[Read More…]
Op-Ed on Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage
RENDER UNTO CAESAR WHAT IS CAESAR’S AND UNTO GOD WHAT IS GOD’S By T.L. HEADLEY MBA, MAT, MA The Supreme Court has spoken – gay marriage is now the law of the land and short of a Constitutional Amendment there is little that can be done to reverse the decision. As[Read More…]
Investing in a reliable water delivery system
An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some ancient Roman aqueducts in Europe are still in use, a testament to ancient engineering and craftsmanship. Are the ones in this area as well-built? With the news pointed out Thursday by the Gazette’s Ken Ward Jr. that at its current[Read More…]
Confederate flag represents only hatred, racism
An editorial from The Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Perhaps it’s better to hang your hat on the right side of history. Or, rather, hang the right flag on your pole. We’re weary of the argument that the Confederate flag represents the culture and heritage of southern states. The Confederate[Read More…]
State must find way to keep young people
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — At Camp Pocahontas, on the other side of our state, young people from all over the country are participating right now in the 2015 National Youth Science Camp, for a few weeks of science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities and[Read More…]
