CHARLESTON, W.Va. (May 22, 2015) – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin Friday issued a statement following additional reports of layoffs in the coal industry: “Additional layoffs and mine closures are heartbreaking for our miners, their families and the communities in which they live. These cutbacks affect more than just those directly employed – they[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
U.S. Senators Manchin and Capito issue statements on W.Va. mine layoffs
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito issue statements Friday on announced mine layoffs in West Virginia: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin: Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) issued the following statement regarding today’s announced mine layoffs: “First, my[Read More…]
Sen. Manchin alarmed by passage of TPA legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin issued the following statement on the Senate passage of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), legislation granting the President fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): “I am deeply alarmed that the Senate has passed this harmful piece of[Read More…]
Op-Ed: Trumka, Roberts — Time to fight for coal jobs
Cecil Roberts! Rich Trumka! I am calling you out! It’s time to get out of your offices, get your noses out of the White House and put them in the right house – the bath house at the mine. Get down here to the coalfields of Appalachia and[Read More…]
Merely patching highway funding doesn’t hold up
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Another Band-Aid is being placed on the federal program that pays for maintaining the nation’s transportation infrastructure, and it won’t be sticking around long. So is there any hope that the nation’s lawmakers will come up with a way to fix the wound[Read More…]
Officials right to suspend teacher for showing ‘Grey’
An editorial from The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Hampshire County school officials may well have turned 50 shades of red in their embarrassment over a fiasco last week. They were right to discipline the teacher involved. It seems that students in the teacher’s class asked if they could watch a movie[Read More…]
Common Core results in stronger learning
An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kentucky — partly a troubled coal state like West Virginia — is producing better-trained high school graduates, thanks to tough new Common Core requirements. The Wall Street Journal reports: “The college and career readiness rate increased to 63 percent from 54 percent[Read More…]
ATV trails working, still growing in W.Va., Va.
An editorial from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — If there is one thing that is working well for the coalfields of southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia, it is the region’s still growing ATV tourism engine. The Hatfield-McCoy Trail system is already a proven tourism and economic development success[Read More…]
High court ruling a black eye for West Virginia
An editorial from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — In a baffling decision that can only be viewed as a step backward for the Mountain State, the West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that drug addicts can sue doctors and pharmacies. This nonsensical decision by the high court justices is[Read More…]
Just plain facts about pistol danger
An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After rival motorcycle gangs slaughtered each other at a Texas biker hangout, a CNN commentary asked: “Is this who and what we have become as a nation? … Is American culture now so drenched in weaponry — and so wearily accustomed to violence[Read More…]
