An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — As West Virginia continues to struggle to find enough medical professionals, especially in rural areas, we have to wonder about the hesitancy to give advanced-practice registered nurses, or APRNs, more ability to provide care. Two bills, Senate Bill 212 and House[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
After pill ring bust, watch out for heroin
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Local and federal law enforcement agencies pulled off quite a coup this week, breaking up a major prescription pill distribution ring. They deserve high praise. But they are well aware of the potential for their efforts to result in a very,[Read More…]
Why not invest in tomorrow?
Advancing bill to save fraction of oil, gas revenue in W.Va.’s best interest An editorial from The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Some are having a hard time making heads or tails out of Senate Bill 461. After all, when did government actually start wanting to save money? It spends[Read More…]
Raleigh County rejection of school bond disturbing
An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — What’s next? With Saturday’s defeat of a $39.5 million bond call, that is the question Raleigh County Board of Education members will try to sort out when they meet for an as yet unscheduled work session. There are several things about the[Read More…]
Suicide should not be a veteran’s legacy
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Every year, thousands of American servicemen and women are sent to serve in dangerous corners of the world. Some of these servicemembers have served multiple tours. This is a time of extreme anxiety for both the service members and[Read More…]
Nurse training critical to prosecuting rape cases
An editorial from the Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — About 20 percent of women say they have been raped sometime in their lives, according to a survey by the Center for Disease Control, almost 40 percent by someone they knew. But for a variety of reasons — from fear to shame[Read More…]
Multiple factors reduce WVU basketball attendance
A column by Bob Hertzel for The Exponent Telegram MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It is, perhaps, time to have a frank conversation about West Virginia’s conversion from an East Coast team to a Midwestern or even southwestern entity on the American sports scene. To date, it isn’t working — on the[Read More…]
Leave chemical monitoring up to the states
An editorial from The Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — By definition, both the state of West Virginia and the federal government failed about 300,000 Mountain State residents badly last month. Most of them probably assumed government at some level was ensuring hazardous chemicals stored near water supplies was being[Read More…]
Here’s hoping Olympics serve to unify the world
An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — It’s hard not to feel a little uneasy about the Winter Olympics which are being held in Sochi, Russia. The venues are only a couple hundred miles from Chechnya, which has fought two wars against Russia in the last 20 years.[Read More…]
Actor’s death shines light on heroin scourge
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG — Philip Seymour Hoffman was a rumpled version of every man. An Oscar winner, who was called among the greatest actors of his time, this generation’s Marlon Brando. Now he is dead. Hoffman, 46, was found by a worried friend on[Read More…]
