An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginia’s campaign to reduce jail and prison overcrowding is succeeding, state legislators were told Monday. But what about the second part of the initiative, to “rehabilitate” those who have committed crimes? During interim committee meetings in Bridgeport, W.Va., lawmakers heard[Read More…]

An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Administrators in a few West Virginia counties say they are faced, in the early days of this school year, with overcrowding in their schools. Despite having recently built new facilities in Doddridge County, for example, the superintendent says there is[Read More…]

An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With all due respect to the increasingly small minority of Americans who still support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the law is doing to the economy exactly what its critics predicted. Obamacare increased the cost of employment. Employers[Read More…]

An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — When men and women reach milestones of age, they and those who know them often look back on long, productive lives – and sometimes, to the future. So it is with those of us at The Intelligencer. We, too, have celebrated[Read More…]

An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — We’re excited to welcome state legislators to North Central West Virginia for their August interim session. While much of the activity will be at the Bridgeport Conference Center, we’re pleased to see lawmakers will be venturing out to a variety of[Read More…]

An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The images from Ferguson, Mo., over the past two weeks have been troubling on many levels. The shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown raises a host of questions about the use of force by police and the impact of race in these[Read More…]

A column by Bob Hertzel for The Times West Virginian MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Did Oliver Luck throw his football coach Dana Holgorsen a life preserver or an anchor when he put together one of the most difficult schedules in modern West Virginia history that begins at 3:30 p.m. this Saturday[Read More…]

An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia has taken a much-needed step forward with the completion of a new facility that beefs up its ability to provide workforce training. The step was highlighted when officials gathered Tuesday to dedicate the Advanced Technology Center located in the West[Read More…]

An editorial from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — A new study by the West Virginia Press Association has found that the number of concealed carry permits in the Mountain State is soaring. And the same can be said for Mercer, McDowell and Monroe counties where residents are exercising[Read More…]

An editorial from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph CHARLESTON, W.Va. —  What’s more important? The safety of students who must travel each day across a partially collapsed section of Gardner Road to reach PikeView High School or the protection of freshwater mussels who call a nearby river home? You would think[Read More…]