An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — As West Virginians look through the candidates for the various positions being decided in the Nov. 8 general election, we’re sure much attention will be given to the presidential and gubernatorial races. Granted, that should be the case. But it would[Read More…]
Month: October 2016
Dominion Post hosts first Family Fall Fest
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — About three hundred people shuffled through The Dominion Post’s Family Fall Fest visiting booths, eating funnel cakes and decorating pumpkins on Oct. 23. With this being the first year the newspaper has done a fall festival, Multimedia Coordinator Amanda DeProspero wanted to bring a lot of vendors[Read More…]
Endorsements: Cole, Reynolds, Buckley get nod
An editorial from The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Dominion Post endorses Bill Cole for governor, Doug Reynolds for attorney general and John Buckley for secretary of state. Cole freely admits he’s a businessman, not a politician. His track record clearly backs that up. His tenure in the Legislature —one term in the House[Read More…]
Endorsements: Tennant, Claytor, Perdue, Helmick good choices
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The contests for West Virginia’s state constitutional offices often do not grab the headlines, but each plays an important role in state government and voters will be making choices in five different races next month. SECRETARY OF STATE: Natalie Tennant is seeking[Read More…]
Prices, oil rig numbers up in Ohio, West Virginia
WHEELING, W.Va. — Southwestern Energy Co. lost $2.5 billion in the first nine months of 2016, a reflection of the global oil and natural gas price collapse that could be felt throughout the Marcellus and Utica shale region this year. However, commodity prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange are[Read More…]
Good honorees hard to find
A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — For many years, winning a Nobel prize meant something. It meant you had achieved something really big — something beneficial to all humankind. It meant more than political correctness. Well, no more. We should have suspected in[Read More…]
Clinton wrong for West Virginia
An editorial from The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — It may be that no state will give presidential candidate Donald Trump as much election-day support as West Virginia. Mountain State residents understand Hillary Clinton would, if elected, be devastating for us. Some voters will be concerned enough about Trump’s personality to conclude[Read More…]
WV man fosters social media star with new paws
BUNKER HILL, W.Va. — A five-month-old puppy named Hope is teaching people a thing or two about not letting life knock you down. Hope was born without fully-formed paws on both her back legs, but now fitted with prosthetics, she is just as quick as ever. “The right foot is[Read More…]
Truck-or-Treat benefits WVU Medicine Children’s
WHITE HALL, W.Va. — Area children had a safe place to go trick-or-treating Sunday during the annual Trunk-or-Treat event held in the Wal-Mart parking lot. While children’s faces were filled with excitement, residents were also supporting the efforts of the Children’s Miracle Network and WVU Medicine Children’s, with all proceeds[Read More…]
Run for the Wall bikers bring winter gear to Rainelle
RAINELLE , W.Va. – The thermometer read 37 degrees, but inside this town’s elementary school compassion warmed a rainy, cold Saturday morning. Scores of children and their parents or grandparents sat on wooden bleachers, excitedly eyeing about 40 men and women donning leather vests and headbands, who placed new winter[Read More…]