An editorial from The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is being urged to do something irresponsible – to sign into law a bill that would be bad for West Virginia. Never mind flaws in the Legislature’s minimum wage bill, the governor is being told. Just sign it.[Read More…]

An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Coal continues to lead the way when it comes to West Virginia’s exports, despite a decline of 26 percent over the previous year. U.S. Census figures released last week show we exported $8.4 billion worth of products in 2013, which was the[Read More…]

A column by Misty Poe, managing editor of The Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Gay marriage is legal in 17 states and the District of Columbia, dating back 10 years ago when a state supreme court decision in Massachusetts shot down a lower court ruling. After the Massachusetts Supreme[Read More…]

A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — We Americans often are accused of not keeping up with more “progressive” folks in slashing our use of coal. We’re supposed to feel inferior, somehow, because we haven’t stopped using the most economical means of[Read More…]

An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia leaders have to be asking, “What’s wrong with this picture?” While each of our neighboring states showed some growth in the 2013 census population estimates, West Virginia was one of the few states in the nation that saw a slight[Read More…]

An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s lawmakers have received their share of criticism for some bills they passed and some they didn’t during the recently concluded 2014 regular session of the state legislature. But one of the many issues they did address with passed legislation was[Read More…]

A column by Mickey Furfari MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Sonny Moran, undoubtedly the unluckiest coach in West Virginia University men’s basketball history, still golfs three times a week at the age of 88 in Alabama. The Charleston native, an assistant to Bucky Waters from 1966 to 1969, took over the program[Read More…]

An editorial from The Parthenon HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Lazy. No work ethic. Undependable. In need of constant affirmation. These are just a few ways millennials – people in their late teens and early 20s – are being defined by their employers as they enter the workforce, according to a recent[Read More…]

  An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is being urged by liberal groups to sign a bill he has good reason to believe was not what West Virginia legislators intended. As we reported last week, a bill to increase the state-required minimum wage[Read More…]

An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — President Obama’s Affordable Care Act wisely includes a guarantee that all American women may obtain birth control at no cost, if they want it. We think this is a welcome step to prevent undesired pregnancies and many abortions they cause. However,[Read More…]