From The Intelligencer of Wheeling: Local residents will have a chance in about a month to tell West Virginia Board of Education members what we think. That opportunity should be seized eagerly. State board members plan a series of public meetings this fall, but there are only six scheduled. The[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
Editorial: Everyone in W.Va. was wrong on income growth (including this newspaper)
From the Charleston Gazette-Mail: In an editorial over the summer, we applauded the news that West Virginia had the best income growth rate in the country for the first quarter of 2019. But we tempered that with the context that growth rates here were largely linked to temporary economic boosts from[Read More…]
Editorial: W.Va. expats can always return with jobs
From The Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Perhaps there will be some advantage after all to the number of sharp young minds that have left West Virginia in search of brighter futures. At least some of them never forgot their homes among the hills, or stopped thinking about how to help[Read More…]
Editorial: W.Va. needs accurate numbers on coal’s future
From The Charleston Gazette-Mail: An article last week from PolitiFact — a Pulitzer-award winning fact-checking publication — gave United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts a “mostly false” rating after Roberts said there are 1,600 coal-fired power plants under construction worldwide. PolitiFact found there are actually 458 plants under construction. Another 445 are in[Read More…]
Opinion: W.Va. Senator Capito statement on House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry announcement
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today issued the below statement following House Democrats’ official impeachment inquiry announcement: “West Virginians have made it clear to me time and time again that they would rather Congress focus on the issues that truly affect their day-to-day lives—not political and partisan[Read More…]
Editorial: Bankruptcy allows opioid makers to hide
From Charleston Gazette-Mail: Were he alive today, British wordsmith Samuel Johnson might remark that bankruptcy is the last refuge of a scoundrel. That will be the final refuge for Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, which made billions off of the development and marketing of OxyContin, the drug[Read More…]
Opinion: State subsidization of greyhound racing no longer makes sense in W.Va.
By W.Va. Senate President Mitch Carmichael In recent years, our Legislature has placed an emphasis on moving West Virginia into the national mainstream. From legal reform to education reform, and everything in between, a common driver of our agenda has been to ensure that West Virginia is no longer ranked[Read More…]
Editorial: 18 months ago, Charleston Gazette-Mail faced bankruptcy. Now, its doubled the digital subscriptions
By Greg Moore Executive Editor In my conversations with Gazette-Mail readers, by both email and phone, I find myself thanking them more and more regularly. Doesn’t matter if they’re suggesting a story, or complaining about one that’s been written, or having trouble logging in to our website, or saying they can’t[Read More…]
Editorial: W.Va. must use energy wisely
By The Intelligencer of Wheeling: No doubt the fossil fuel-hating crowd will be upset at action last week by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection — but DEP officials were absolutely right. The DEP has approved construction of a plant proposed for Mason County, where a coal-to-liquids plant is[Read More…]
Editorial: Drug War is far from won in W.Va.
From The Intelligencer of Wheeling: Gov. Jim Justice missed the mark a bit in reacting to some good news recently. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced the total number of drug overdose deaths in the state decreased from 2017 to 2018. Estimates show 952 drug overdose[Read More…]