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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

An editorial from The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. —  Forty years ago, little did we know that Vietnam and Watergate would one day be referred to as watershed events. Events that mark a unique or major historical change of course in our nation. It’s safe to say that the Jan.[Read More…]

An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Last month, the family of 14-year-old Jenna Betti was in mourning after the teenager was stuck and killed by a train in Martinez, Calif. She was trying to retrieve her cell phone from the track, where she dropped it as the train[Read More…]

An editorial from The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Exports are a key component of West Virginia’s economy – but they were down drastically last year. That does not bode well for state budget planners. During 2012, state businesses exported $11.3 billion in goods. But last year, the total plunged to[Read More…]

An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Thousands of the world’s best scientists — working through the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — have intensified their alarm that humanity faces worse peril from deadly superstorms, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes, rising sea level, melting icecaps, disease,[Read More…]

A column by Mickey Furfari from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Craig Turnbull, the latest head coach victim of Oliver Luck’s shocking series of firings at West Virginia University, had generally enjoyed what many rate as an outstanding career not only in athletics but in life. Like the[Read More…]