As an adopted child raised in a Catholic family with other adopted children, the issue over whether Roe v. Wade should be overturned has been fiercely contested among us literally our entire lives.
I did not fully grasp until the recent action by the U.S. Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade what a watershed decision this is for our country. The legal implications for our future go very far beyond the issue of abortion and the rights of women to the heart of our democratic system.
Perhaps the most permanent image to come out of Tuesday’s hearing into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was of the cleanshaven Chief of Staff Mark Meadows bustling about to help Donald Trump overthrow the United States government.
Martin Walker, the gifted former Washington correspondent of The Guardian, used to start his speeches saying that the Fourth of July wasn’t a time for sorrow for him, as it was a time when good British yeomen farmers in the colonies revolted against a German king and his German mercenaries.
This editorial originally appeared in The Washington Post and was distributed by The Associated Press.
A country careening off the rails need no longer be concerned about third rails, which explains their disintegration, a kind of societal Big Bang, abortion being the latest charged motif to be splintered.
Seven years ago, President Barack Obama tried, and failed, to get Congress to pass the Clean Power Plan. The proposal included regulations that would have shut down coal-fired power plants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It is almost conventional wisdom to say that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks a turning point in the next major conflict between liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes. But Russia’s aggression did not happen in a vacuum, even though it is a visible milestone. Vladimir Putin’s unjust…
The COVID-19 pandemic was the first exposure to online lesson delivery for many parents, students and even teachers themselves — but it was a far cry from a real, proven, virtual education. Families and faculty were thrown into an emergency remote teaching situation in the midst of a global …
William Alpert, the associate professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut whose, “A perfect storm for US on energy” op-ed appeared in the Gazette-Mail recently, is part of a group of economists who for the last 50 years have been lending scholarly gravitas to the dumb ideas of the ub…
Congress has an opportunity to pass legislation that benefits all local citizens, businesses and even protects our democracy. The Local Journalism Sustainability Act, should be included as part of any upcoming reconciliation bill that Congress is considering. The sustainability act is a well…
Carbon capture storage — technology that removes carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal and stores it underground or converts it into other products — has long been hailed as the savior of the coal industry in West Virginia.
After serving 20 years as Marine Corps intelligence officer and five years as the Commissioner of Agriculture, it’s easy to identify trends that have the potential to affect the security of the United States.
The battle for Iwo Jima was a seminal event of World War II. American forces were fighting their way closer to Japan, but Japanese fighter planes taking off from the Pacific island were intercepting American bombers.
Told by the Secret Service that members of his mob had been seen carrying handguns and AR-15s on the National Mall, Donald Trump proceeded with his incendiary Jan. 6, 2021, speech anyway, imploring the crowd to march to the Capitol and “fight.” That is according to the Jan. 6 Select Committe…
“Man-made climate change is real and it’s a serious threat to our citizens, to our economy, to our environment and to our national security.” — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in an opening statement to Senate Energy Committee, March 2019.
Claim solar energy is
Hershel “Woody” Williams understood sacrifice. He understood service. The Marion County native who eventually settled in Cabell County never stopped working to make his country a better place, especially as it pertained to the families of those who understood sacrifice the way Williams did.
Chris Jacobs, a congressman from New York, uttered the unthinkable on national television the other day: “I’m now the only Republican that’s come out and said I’m in favor of an assault weapon ban.”
I get called a “radical” now and again. That is, I call for big change and grow frustrated with incremental change. But my radical tendencies pale compared to those of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
New West Virginia Democratic Party Chairman Mike Pushkin has his work cut out for him, and he knows it.
For many residents of West Virginia, the last few years have felt like one hurdle after another. We have had to contend with COVID-19, the ensuing lockdowns and surging inflation in rapid succession. With these challenges taking center stage, it is easy to overlook a looming health crisis th…
West Virginia schools Superintendent Clayton Burch and state Board of Education President Miller Hall are right about the problems with the newly-created Hope Scholarship. A voucher law that diverts public education dollars to private schools and homeschooling will obviously weaken public sc…
The loud collective groan you heard behind the noise of last week’s protests was that of women my age: Somewhere between 65 and 80. We were the generation just coming into our child-bearing years in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was handed down by the US Supreme Court. We arrived, quite fertile, out…
History will record that the recent Dobbs v. Jackson decision overturning Roe v. Wade will rank as one of most controversial Supreme Court decisions.
As a parent of two children involved in athletics in the Charleston area, I along with other parents have worked many tireless days and nights to prepare grass and dirt fields for our children’s practices and games.
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and sending the abortion question back to the states has created legal confusion in the Mountain State.
The Democratic Party had controlled the West Virginia Legislature for more than 80 years when the 2014 election and a party change in the state Senate switched control to the Republicans.
Independence is America’s first value. It’s such a big deal we have a national holiday to celebrate and reflect on it. It’s our birthday, it’s who we are or who we should aspire to be.
The fall of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey has officially happened. The Supreme Court of the United States has officially left it to individual states to decide whether or not all persons within their boundaries capable of becoming pregnant are walking, talking incubators and fe…
You may be excused if you missed it. What with Roe v. Wade being overturned, Congress passing the first gun control legislation in 30 years, the Jan. 6 hearing revelations and the Supreme Court striking down certain gun carry restrictions, you may have missed the news that Donald Trump is no…
The U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has triggered this question in West Virginia: Now what?
The worldwide energy shortage is a hot issue in America because the cost of gasoline has shot to in excess of $5 per gallon, with comparable increases in other energy prices. While Americans will find this situation inconvenient, the energy shortage will have catastrophic consequences in oth…
I am grateful to Kathleen Jacobs for her honest, heartfelt and heartening op-ed in a recent edition of the Gazette-Mail expressing her feelings and beliefs on the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Gazette-Mail cartoon: June 27, 2022
This editorial originally appeared in the Ashland Daily Independent and was distributed by The Associated Press.
Medications are too expensive. As pharmacists, we hear every day about unsafe or extreme measures people are forced to take to afford their medications: skipping doses or skipping other bill payments, sharing prescriptions, and traveling to pharmacies outside the country, among other things.…
As I write this I am thinking about the past week, with so many disparate but meaningful occasions to reflect on. FestivALL events. Juneteenth celebrations. Leadership changes in the state Democratic party. Unpacking more boxes and finding things that had gone missing or that I did not know …
This editorial originally appeared in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel and was distributed by The Associated Press.
A gun’s beauty is in the eye of the holder, a truth made acutely evident to Kanawha County Family Court Judge Jim Douglas during a cruise Monday night on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met Thursday with executives from the big oil companies over high gas prices. Afterward, her office said she challenged the executives to “deliver solutions to ensure [a] secure, affordable supply” of fuel.
Let me tell you a story, keeping in mind that the most important part of any story — fictional or not — is the story behind the story.
