An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Under the cloud of $300-plus million state deficits projected in FY 2016-2017, state and education officials met Tuesday to discuss the PROMISE Scholarship, West Virginia’s merit-based scholarship program for in-state students. Of course, some legislators want to redirect those funds elsewhere.[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
Foresight lacking in Parkersburg stadium project
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — In hindsight, it is easy to see that members of the Parkersburg High School Stadium Renovation Committee were in over their heads during the recent Stadium Field construction project. Their well-intentioned blundering led to serious cost overruns on the[Read More…]
Texting great way to reach students at critical time
An editorial from the Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — HYH? There’s a GR8 new program that helps students IRL as they prepare for college. If you’re having trouble deciphering that sentence, it’s probably because you haven’t grown up in an age when text messaging on cellphones is the primary[Read More…]
Pseudoephedrine bill would reduce meth menace
An editorial from the Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s meth curse nearly doubled last year. Police found 533 of the illegal dope-cooking labs statewide, up from 288 the previous year. Kanawha County led the sorry tally with 159 labs. “It’s an epidemic, a cancer and a scourge on[Read More…]
Requiring prescriptions cure worse than scourge
Effort to require prescriptions for cold, allergy medicine dose of over-reach An editorial from The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN — This is not a case of swatting a mosquito with a sledgehammer. Instead, what House Bill 4212 does is attempt to rid our state of a pestilence by spraying everyone[Read More…]
W.Va. Senate president’s future fund idea has merit
An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — As state lawmakers debate how to close a $143 million budgetary shortfall for this budget year, the options are less than thrilling. They are debating a second year of 7.5 percent budget cuts and a hiring freeze for state employees. And they[Read More…]
How not to save the planet
A column by Mike Myer of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Questioning even the most outrageous claim by climate change alarmists will get you the kind of response once reserved for folks who warned about an international communist conspiracy based in Moscow. If you’re lucky, people just shake their[Read More…]
Don’t dismiss future of Charleston just yet
An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Many residents of the Charleston area are feeling smacked around the last couple of weeks. With the leak of more than 6,000 gallons of Crude MCHM from Freedom Industries tanks contaminating the area’s water supply, the resulting “do-not-use” order, closure[Read More…]
Politics paint Harrison school board in bad light
An editorial from the Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Most times, we see members of the Harrison County Board of Education as people who profess to be dedicated to the interests of our children. Often, though, we are reminded that these individuals ran for the seats they hold, and they[Read More…]
A little history, a lot of concern about water safety
An editorial from the Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink” recently became the unofficial slogan for some 300,000 residents served by West Virignia American Water in the Greater Charleston metropolitan area and the adjacent counties that surround it. Charleston not only serves[Read More…]
