An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — David Gordon, coordinator of the Ridge to Rivers urban trail system in Boise, Idaho, visited Charleston to tell 50 community leaders and reporters that Charleston and the Kanawha Valley can have a similar trail of 100 miles or more. What[Read More…]

An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — During Joe Manchin’s first term as governor, he signed legislation allowing counties and cities to combine operations in one of three forms. The bill allows a metro government to be formed between city and city, city and county or county and[Read More…]

Please Help our Veterans! This past legislative session was very good for the Veterans of West Virginia. Our state stepped up and approved legislation to build a new Veterans Nursing Home in Beckley. It was because of the leadership of Sen. Mike Green for introducing SB 523 to build this[Read More…]

An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — It’s been 28 years since the battle was won to help curb the scourge of biting, annoying, swarming black flies. Before the state started spraying the fly larvae in the New, Bluestone and Greenbrier rivers in 1986, outdoor activities were accompanied by what was[Read More…]

An editorial from The Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — There are a solid few weeks of 2006 that Division of Highways worker Bill Swan just doesn’t remember. He doesn’t remember being hit by a vehicle, smashing his head against the windshield or falling with such force to the ground that[Read More…]

Happy Earth Day! I learned a long time ago that there are no free lunches or as Tim McGraw said in his hit song How Bad Do You Want it “There’s always a price to pay no matter what you do.” That is certainly true when it comes to energy.[Read More…]

An editorial from The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — We were on the same page with the Preston County Commission, too. That is on the need to beef up law enforcement in Bruceton Mills … until it went into executive session. Let’s be clear. No one here has an issue[Read More…]

An editorial from The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — Yet another crack in the foundation of the Randolph County judiciary appeared Monday as details of an extramarital affair between Judge Jaymie Godwin Wilfong and a county employee were aired, further eroding public confidence in an already scandal-plagued legal system. The 20th[Read More…]

An editorial from The Exponent Telegram  CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — The death of a child is tragic and shocking. It’s even more so when it appears there were telltale signs that the child’s welfare was in danger. While the charges against Tricia Brooke Moore McCoy and her husband, Clovis Harold McCoy[Read More…]