No one likes school consolidations. No one wants to see an elementary, middle or high school that has traditionally been a central part of a community shut down for students to be bused somewhere else — sometimes quite a distance — every day. It wasn’t surprising to see so many[Read More…]

The Wayne County News The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant could come back online in a few years to feed Microsoft’s need for data centers and artificial intelligence, but that is far from the only indication things are changing in the nation’s power grid. There is so much going[Read More…]

The Journal As we head into another election season, the time to reiterate the cry to candidates and to those who work for them regarding the legality of placing campaign signage. Election season brings us every size, shape and color of campaign sign imaginable and these signs have already begun[Read More…]

The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Lawmakers who still think it is more important to protect “personal freedoms” for homeschooling parents than it is to protect the children being kept at home got another wake-up call this week. Fortunately — this time — the children involved in this case are still alive to[Read More…]

The Intelligencer. Wheeling News-Register Today, we at the News-Register celebrate our 134th birthday. It’s amazing to consider that, for nearly a century and a half, this newspaper has been a trusted source of the most important information for the people of the Upper Ohio Valley. From the inaugural edition published[Read More…]

The Journal Most Mountain State residents already know what a treasure the late Katherine Johnson was, and how important she and her colleagues were to any successes the United States had at the beginning of the space race. The White Sulphur Springs native and West Virginia State University graduate was[Read More…]

Charleston Gazette-Mail The run-up to the general election has been surprisingly quiet, in respect to the race for the Governor’s Office. Arguably the biggest news so far is that Democratic Party candidate and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams has challenged West Virginia Attorney General and Republican nominee Patrick Morrisey to a[Read More…]

The Journal It’s hard to understand what the lawmakers who rode into office boasting of their aim to “right size” state government were thinking when they decided to turn the Department of Health and Human Resources into three new agencies (four if you count the Office of Shared Administration that[Read More…]

By Stephen Smoot, The Shinnston News & Harrison County Journal SHINNSTON, W.Va. — Last month, Wallet Hub released its yearly ranking of what they consider “fun” states. Once again, West Virginia came in last for “fun.” That assessment, however, counters what other outlets say. National Geographic, for example, in January[Read More…]