An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — All one has to do is travel our highways to know that on a daily basis a huge amount of chemicals and other hazardous materials travel through our area. With increased Marcellus shale drilling, that will continue. And that’s also true[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
College degree is ticket to bigger earnings
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — This weekend, thousands of students across our region will pass a life-altering milestone when they receive a college degree. About 1,500 are set to graduate from Marshall University on Saturday, and commencements are scheduled over the next few days at West Virginia[Read More…]
Huntington initiative to help small business
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The Tri-State grew in the first half of the 20th Century with many large manufacturers. Coal was a big part of the regional economy, of course, but plants in our region also cranked out automobile bumpers, glass bottles, railcars, steel and nickel.[Read More…]
Low-cost internet will boost Raleigh iPad initiative
An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — The announcement of a partnership between Suddenlink and Raleigh County schools to provide cheap home Internet service to underprivileged students is welcome news on the education front. For a two-year guaranteed rate of $9.95 per month, Suddenlink will deliver high-speed Internet in its[Read More…]
Clayton Lockett’s murder victim had a name
An editorial from The Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Forty-three minutes. A lot can be accomplished within that time frame. It’s a one-way trip up Interstate 79 to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. It’s an hour-long television program, if you fast forward the commercials. You can walk two miles at a leisurely pace.[Read More…]
Heroin: old foe a new threat
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Illegal drugs have become a deadly merry-go-round in West Virginia. Just when the authorities believe they are making a dent in one form of abuse, another one comes around to take its place. Sometimes the cycle repeats itself. Police and prosecutors[Read More…]
EPA must delay new CO2 rules for power plants
An editorial from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is correct in asking the federal Environmental Protection Agency to delay its plans to establish new carbon dioxide emission regulations for existing power plants. Morrisey forwarded a letter to the EPA last week arguing that the[Read More…]
Manchin right about pipeline
An editorial from The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., often is in demand for weekend interview programs. That is because he is plain spoken, uses common sense to analyze policy questions, and is not afraid to speak the truth – regardless of whether Republicans or fellow Democrats,[Read More…]
Keystone pipeline would curtail oil derailments
An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Flames shot in the air and black smoke billowed from the James River in downtown Lynchburg, Va., last week when a CSX train carrying crude oil from the Bakken field in North Dakota derailed, sending three rail cars into the[Read More…]
Americans Need To ‘Make Stuff’
A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register Wheeling, W.Va. — In March, the highest unemployment rates in West Virginia and Ohio were, respectively, Wetzel County at 12.7 percent and Monroe County at 12.5 percent. Why? In a word: Ormet. Both counties had fairly high[Read More…]
