Opinion

The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.

Air pollution proposal animates the usual critics

An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Predictably, West Virginia conservatives went ballistic over the Obama administration’s modest, reasonable attempt to reduce air pollution and curtail global warming caused by coal-burning power plants. The state Republican headquarters issued a statement titled “When Obama Attacks.” It said West Virginia[Read More…]

Global warming: Obama plan a job killer

An editorial from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — President Barack Obama says his new carbon emission plan is another way of “skinning the cat” in terms of addressing climate change, or the science formerly known as global warming. But here in the coalfields of southern West Virginia and[Read More…]

With reunion set, Hatfield Cemetery blocked

A column by Dwight Williamson for The Logan Banner  LOGAN, W.Va. — Logan County needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Seriously, the county has three sites which have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Most people cannot name all three of them, so let me relay[Read More…]

New W.Va. chemical tank law has big holes

An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel  PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection has a big problem, when it comes to implementing new rules that require above-ground storage tanks to be registered by Oct. 1. The DEP has no idea how many tanks are in our state.[Read More…]

Timing bad for coal kickback indictments

BECKLEY, W.Va. — The federal indictments of former workers at Arch Coal over an alleged kickback scheme involving nearly $2 million from vendors could not have come at a worse time. On Monday, The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to release new emissions regulations that will no doubt continue to[Read More…]

Dictating lunch menu is misguided

An editorial from the Weirton Daily Times    WEIRTON, W.Va. — While it’s laudable to care about the health of school children, it’s also, unfortunately, a little laughable when it’s the federal government trying to dictate daily lunch menus in schools. First lady Michelle Obama has her heart in the right[Read More…]

Student drug testing may prevent addiction

An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — The Raleigh County Board of Education put a proposed drug testing policy out for 30-day comment at its Tuesday meeting. The only students affected would be those who participate in the simulated workplace program at the Academy of Careers and Technology. This[Read More…]

Schifino reflects on sudden end to WVU career

A column by Bob Hertzel for The Times West Virginian MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Time and circumstances have a way of changing history. Drew Schifino is proof of that. Schifino was one of the most prolific scorers ever to play basketball at West Virginia University, but his memory has faded fast and the[Read More…]

Race Card: Rockefeller owes W.Va. an apology

An editorial from The Journal  MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Once again, U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has accused those critical of President Barack Obama’s health care law of being racists. He did it last week during a Senate hearing. Rockefeller said some critics of Obamacare “don’t want it to work, because[Read More…]

Try again on abortion limits

An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginians with deep moral concerns about abortion often grow frustrated at the name-calling so prevalent in most discussions of the subject. Proponents of limits on even late-term abortions frequently are accused of waging “war on women.” That is nonsense, of course.[Read More…]

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