From The Weirton Daily Times: Economic development often is more of a marathon than a sprint. Projects many of us may feel should be simple, usually can take years of negotiations before an announcement can be made, let alone before any construction or hiring can take place. Those involved in the[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
Editorial: Nonsense — Gov. Justice has chance to do more than showboat
From The Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Surely anyone who begins a speech by announcing he “can’t do anything but tell the truth” understands he has just cued his audience to put up its guard. But Gov. Jim Justice’s spotlight grab Wednesday morning was so dishonest, disingenuous and full of self-serving[Read More…]
Editorial: Look back at West Virginia’s heritage
The Journal of Martinsburg, W.Va.: As we marked our state’s birthday this week, some West Virginians may wonder whether there is much to celebrate. Our unemployment rate is 5 percent. We are the only state in the union with a workforce participation rate below 50 percent. The poverty rate here[Read More…]
Editorial: State Budget Not Being Cut
From The Intelligencer of Wheeling: West Virginia legislators have agreed on a General Revenue Fund budget of $4.228 billion for the fiscal year that begins in two weeks. It happened only after much hand-wringing over alleged cuts in spending that would affect many Mountain State residents adversely. Look at the[Read More…]
Editorial: Cuts to cost more than pretty penny
The Dominion Post of Morgantown: Never mind that everyone told us we cannot cut our way to prosperity. Don’t confuse us with facts. The Legislature had already made up its mind. Overall, the state budget that will become law today — without Gov. Jim Justice’s signature — contains more than[Read More…]
Editorial: State budget funds vital government services
From the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Daily Mail Editorial Page: To hear Gov. Jim Justice put it, West Virginia could have “absolutely eradicated this terrible drug epidemic” if only legislators had included a five-percent successful “bidders fee” to roads projects in the Fiscal Year 2018 budget. Who knew that eliminating the drug[Read More…]
Editorial: Capito holds the fate of millions
From the Charleston Gazette-Mail: Sen. Shelley Capito, R-W.Va., says she is studying intensely to decide whether to support the proposed Senate Republican replacement of the Affordable Care Act. She says she will “evaluate whether it provides access to affordable health care for West Virginians, including those on the Medicaid expansion[Read More…]
Opinion: Using miners for political gain nothing new, still repulsive
By Rob Byers Executive Editor The Charleston Gazette-Mail Earlier this spring, I was asked a question about my late father, who had been a coal miner in the 1970s and ’80s. It had to do with a familiar romantic storyline: Did he feel at home underground? Was it a calling[Read More…]
EDITORIAL: Justice has chance to do more than showboat
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel editorial Surely anyone who begins a speech by announcing he “can’t do anything but tell the truth” understands he has just cued his audience to put up its guard. But Gov. Jim Justice’s spotlight grab Wednesday morning was so dishonest, disingenuous and full of self-serving[Read More…]
EDITORIAL: Program to help miners should expand
The Inter-Mountain editorial President Donald Trump knows, despite his rhetoric on the campaign trail, that nothing he can do will restore the job of all the coal miners who lost them during the past eight years. Between former President Barack Obama’s war on coal and market forces, some of those[Read More…]
