An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Sometimes you just have to shake your head in wonderment. On Thursday, state senators advanced House Bill 2381, which will provide $2,000 pay raises to nationally certified teachers who teach at low performing schools and provide mentorship to other teachers. While[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
Transparency vital in politics
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Americans have a right, as the Supreme Court has ruled, to express themselves about politics by donating money to candidates and causes. But as politics involves bigger and bigger money from all sides of the idealogical spectrum, we also ought to[Read More…]
Lend food bank a hand in time of need
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG — At first glance, the news of a crisis at Mountaineer Food Bank in Braxton County may not seem as though it matter much to people in the Mid-Ohio Valley. But the food bank serves 68 soup kitchens in 48 counties.[Read More…]
Failure to address Common Core regrettable
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Monday’s decision on national Common Core education standards represented a triumph of both procrastination and federal government pressure. It appears some lawmakers feel it would not be realistic to simply ban use of the standards in West Virginia. They may be[Read More…]
Common Core review preferable to repeal
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate is on a path toward adopting a more reasonable approach to dealing with concerns about the state’s Common Core educational standards than the one undertaken by the House of Delegates. If the Senate’s path becomes law, the result[Read More…]
Misdirected frustration evident at labor rally
An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia has the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate. In October, only 49.8 percent of eligible people in the work force were employed, compared to a national average of 62.7 percent. Despite being among the top states in per person spending[Read More…]
Commentary: Disgusted by $100,000 breakfast
ELKINS, W.Va. — Disgusted is the way I reacted last night after reading a Twitter post about a $100,000 breakfast being organized by a “secretive” and likely “extreme” conservative group. You must read/click this link to see exactly what is going on. It is unfortunate the organizers of this $100,000 breakfast have[Read More…]
Restoring the ‘open and obvious’ doctrine of liability
An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — One of the most egregious decisions by the West Virginia Supreme Court in recent years was corrected last week when Gov. Tomblin signed Senate Bill 13 to reinstate the long-standing “open and obvious” doctrine in premises liability. Simply put, that[Read More…]
Wholesale repeal of school standards bad idea
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — States and local governments on average spend about $12,000 a year for each public school student, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. So, a high school graduate can represent an investment of as much as $150,000 for 13-14 years in[Read More…]
Lawmakers need to find money for road work
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Once upon a time, drivers told stories about road trips on which they were able to tell when they had crossed the border into West Virginia based on road conditions, rather than looking at signs. Smooth sailing was replaced[Read More…]
