From The Journal of Martinsburg: The Eastern Panhandle is becoming a destination for leading-edge technology in the field of medicine thanks to advances at WVU Medicine’s Berkeley Medical Center. Recently, BMC became the first medical center in the West Virginia and the tri-state area to add the Mazor X, a[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
Editorial: Country can’t afford moral, ethical faults of big pharma
From The Register-Herald of Beckley: We have known for some time that the pharmaceutical industry in the United States, as demonstrated in one opioid drug distribution story after another – to say nothing of noxious pricing and marketing schemes – is morally and ethically bankrupt. Now, with the release of[Read More…]
Editorial: No politics past this point
From The Dominion Post of Morgantown: School boards of the past were once as much about political patronage as championing education in West Virginia. But, by and large, that mentality in most school districts changed long ago, if it is not altogether gone now. Though we would like to believe[Read More…]
Editorial: Welcome US Methanol
From The Charleston Gazette-Mail, Daily Mail page: A funny thing is happening here in the Kanawha Valley. A chemical manufacturing company is disassembling a plant at a foreign location and moving it here. It’s the reverse of a process that began in our area, then known as “Chemical Valley,” in[Read More…]
Editorial: It’s not sadness: Why women cry at work
From The Register-Herald of Beckley: By Gina Barreca of The Hartford Courant Crying at work might not mean what you think it does. A woman weeping in front of her colleagues, her clients or her boss is probably not a woman expressing sadness. She’s not displaying weakness. Instead she’s a[Read More…]
Editorial: Your new part-time job, watching your credit history
From The Charleston Gazette-Mail, Gazette page: As if having a storm the size of France on its way wasn’t enough to be going on with, Americans learned late Thursday that Equifax lost to hackers valuable identity information on about half the adults in the country. Social Security numbers, drivers license[Read More…]
At the Capitol: State Corrections in crisis
By Phil Kabler For the West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While legislators returned to the Capitol for the first time since an extended special session on the budget ended on June 26, their August legislative interim committee meetings were overshadowed by events in the governor’s office. During interims, Gov.[Read More…]
Opinion: Oil and natural gas: a West Virginia solution
By Charlie Burd Executive Director, IOGA WV West Virginia history shows the success of the tried and true custom of leveraging our abundant natural resources to not only generate revenue statewide, but to lower unemployment and boost the quality of life for our residents. West Virginia needs to take a stand[Read More…]
Opinion: Appalachian Storage Hub represents ‘Galaxy of Hope’
By Marc A. Monteleone President, IOGA WV The Texas Gulf Coast region and anchor cities such as Houston are suffering from the devastating impacts of Hurricane Harvey. Houston is the epicenter of the nation’s oil, natural gas and chemical industry and has become our nation’s fourth largest city. Our hearts and[Read More…]
Daily Mail editorial: WVU president advances ideas to move WV forward
Daily Mail editorial Charleston Gazette-Mail “West Virginia faces a critical time in its history as it lags behind a growing national economy,” West Virginia University President Gordon Gee told business leaders Thursday at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s 81st Annual Meeting and Business Summit. The affable and tireless 72-year-old[Read More…]
