Opinion

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

Time for prosecutor to resign

An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kanawha Prosecutor Mark Plants is charged with domestic battery of his 11-year-old son. Plants does not refute that he struck the child with a leather belt hard enough to leave a long, purple, U-shaped bruise on the boy’s thigh. But on[Read More…]

PSC right to support expanding water service

An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — As hundreds of thousands of people in the Kanawha Valley learned all too well in January, water is a precious commodity. The chemical leak into the Elk River near a water intake for a West Virginia American Water treatment and distribution plant[Read More…]

Proposed school calendar lives up to spirit of law

An editorial from The Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — West Virginia state law requires that students be in a classroom for 180 days. Why 180 days? It’s probably a carryover from the 19th and 20th centuries when agriculture was a prominent industry and family members, young and old, were[Read More…]

Huntington residents urged to support Keith-Albee

An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Huntington has been fortunate that those who built the Keith-Albee Theatre more than 85 years ago and have been entrusted with its care in the decades since were serious about their responsibility to the structure that graces 4th Avenue. Most of the[Read More…]

Do we want more government advice on nutrition?

An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — The bad news last week was that West Virginia doesn’t just have the most obese city in the nation in Huntington, but we had Martinsburg waddling in at No. 3 and Charleston at No. 6 on the list, too. The researchers were[Read More…]

Princeton editor called heart of Mercer County

A column by Matt Christian of the Princeton Times PRINCETON — I really wish I could talk to Tammie Toler right now. I am having the most difficult time of my life coming up with the right things to say as a way of offering my support following her stroke[Read More…]

Water safety: New inspections justified

An editorial from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The new state safeguards on above-ground storage tanks and water systems signed into law this week by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin are justified and necessary. The legislative action comes in response to the Jan. 9 chemical spill in Charleston, which[Read More…]

Police manpower problem has no easy answers

An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — It’s one thing to operate a convenience store with fewer people, but it’s quite another thing when a city is down 10 police officers. Clarksburg’s Police Department is budgeted for 48 officers, but with the expected departure of two of them[Read More…]

Ruling gives another edge to special interests

An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — It is hard to argue that what the American political process needs is more money from the wealthy and special interests. But the Supreme Court has made sure that is what we are going to get. In 2010, the court’s decision on[Read More…]

Collegiate athlete compensation overdue

An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — With a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Northwestern University football players should be considered employees of the school, and could even unionize, much attention has been focused on the finances of big-time college athletics. That attention is long overdue. For[Read More…]

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