By Ryan Thorn, West Virginia state director of USDA Rural Development The success of every community across West Virginia depends on the health and wellbeing of its people. At USDA Rural Development, we believe that everyone should live in a healthy and safe environment, and everyone should have access to[Read More…]
Opinion
The Editorial category is a roundup of links to editorials and columns from West Virginia newspapers.
Opinion: WVSSAC
Moorefield Examiner This article comes not to bury the WVSSAC but, at least initially, to praise it. The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission is an organization that quietly does a lot of good. Those who work in it will not get rich from their labors, but put in endless[Read More…]
Manchin: The American people picked Trump. Now is the time to deliver solutions for everyone
Washington, DC – On Nov. 17, Fox News published an op-ed from U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) on the U.S. Presidential election results. The full op-ed is available below: Today, we celebrate the strength of our democracy. In record numbers, Americans from every corner of this country cast their ballots, showing up[Read More…]
U.S. Sen. Capito Op-Ed: West Virginia knows how to fight the good fight against opioid abuse
By U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and featured in the Charleston Gazette-Mail WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an op-ed published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail over the weekend, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), highlighted the successes[Read More…]
COLUMN: Success comes from the struggle
By Greg Kozera, Shale Crescent USA A few years ago, I was having a drink with Lyle, a friend, at the Greenbrier after a golf outing. We talked about our families. Lyle had been through some stuff. Years earlier his fiancée told him on New Year’s Eve, “I don’t love[Read More…]
Opinion — Statehouse beat: How we got here
By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail How in the world did this happen? How did a majority of American voters, when presented with the choice of a platform of hope, progress and inclusiveness, or a platform of hate, fear and divisiveness, opt to embrace the darkness? How did a majority of[Read More…]
Opinion: West Virginia elections are the best run in America
By Diana Cromley, president of WVACo, the WV Association of Counties I’m a West Virginia County Clerk, the County Clerk from Mason County, to be exact. For 31 years, I along with my staff have coordinated the free and fair elections in Mason County, all races from President on down to[Read More…]
COLUMN: Find your diamonds
By Greg Kozera, Shale Crescent USA This week Lynnda and I attended an economic development, climate and energy conference held in Oil City and Titusville, PA the birthplace of the commercial oil industry. For decades the world oil price was set at the building where we ate lunch on Monday in Oil City.[Read More…]
Opinion: Honey boosts southern West Virginia economy and brings value to Appalachia and the Mountain State
By Terri J. Giles, The Register-Herald Sweet, nutritious honey and our resilient bees are a Godsend for West Virginia and Appalachia. Honey is boosting the economy of southern West Virginia and bringing positive benefits to us. After decades of public service and foundation management, I was blessed to be able[Read More…]
Statehouse beat: The special session that shouldn’t have been
By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail This week’s special session should never have happened. All it has accomplished (so far) is to waste $35,000, with legislators no closer to approving Gov. Jim Justice’s 5% income tax cut than when he first proposed it in July. Special sessions are intended to do[Read More…]
