Opinion

Guest editorial: Consequences for Chinese camps must stick

Readers' Vent: Oct. 14, 2019

18 min ago

How low will our senators go to keep their power? We need new representation that will go to Washington to defend our values not just theirs and our economic interest.

Michael Gerson: The dangers of tribal politics (Opinion)

3 hrs ago

“Civilization is hideously fragile. ... There’s not much between us and the horrors underneath. Just about a coat of varnish.”

Leonard Pitts: The thing about forgiveness (Opinion)

8 hrs ago

Here’s the thing about forgiveness.

Robert Gebelhoff: Tired of politics? Check out Saturn's newly discovered moons

Oct 12, 2019

Yes, the latest impeachment developments are very important. And yes, the president’s refusal to cooperate with Democrats’ congressional subpoenas will throw us into a legitimate constitutional crisis that will have real implications for the 2020 election and the future of our country.

Nigel Jeffries: How to deal with WV's overwrought education system

Oct 12, 2019

I must respectfully disagree with the Gazette-Mail’s stance on the business inventory tax in a recent editorial.

Booth Goodwin: Don't forget about infants in opioid fight

Oct 12, 2019

There have been many headlines lately regarding opioid lawsuits. There is a massive group of lawsuits brought on behalf of cities and counties in front of U.S. District Judge Dan Polster pending in Cleveland. Those cities and counties asked for and received designation of a “negotiation clas…

Charles McElwee: What can we actually do about firearms?

Oct 12, 2019

There has been a lot of sustained public outcry concerning recent mass shootings. On Aug. 3, a white 21-year-old gunman in El Paso, Texas, killed 22 people and injured 24. Hours later, a white 24-year-old gunman in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine people and injured 17. On Aug. 31, a white 36-year-…

Allan Tweddle: Climate change denial is dangerous

Oct 12, 2019

Fossil fuel attorney David Yaussy’s distorted industry mantra in a recent op-ed spinning doubt that the anthropogenic climate change crisis is nothing to worry about triggers an old memory of companies telling people “cigarettes are good for you.”

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Oct 12, 2019

Readers' Vent: Oct. 12, 2019

Oct 12, 2019

In a rally speech last night, Trump said Biden was a good vice president only because he knew how to kiss Barack Obama’s butt. Amazing, coming from a man who gets up each day demanding that everyone kiss his.

LETTER: Global warming deniers need to be voted out

Oct 11, 2019

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Gazette-Mail editorial: Cost often ignored in opioid epidemic

Oct 11, 2019

When West Virginians think about the opioid crisis, the analysis tends to drift in a few understandable directions. Death tolls from overdoses, obviously, are a huge part of the picture, as is treatment and rehabilitation. There’s the law enforcement aspect of stemming the tide of illicit dr…

Carol Williams: Feeling blue in a red state (Opinion)

Oct 11, 2019

No, “Lonely in West Virginia” is not my Tinder profile name. Rather, that’s how I feel about being a minority here — not in language, culture or skin color, but by my political label.

Sherri Young: Pregnant women need flu vaccine, too (Opinion)

Oct 11, 2019

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 54 percent of pregnant women receive the flu vaccine, although it is highly recommended during pregnancy.

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Oct 11, 2019

Readers' Vent: Oct. 11, 2019

Oct 11, 2019

Trump is the worst president in the history of the USA. He is so narcissistic that he can’t think of anything except what benefits him, his family, and his wealthy acquaintances. He does not care about America or Americans. He is similar to a mob boss or a cult leader. He has no loyalty to h…

LETTER: A parody for today of Joy Allison's Mother's Day poem

Oct 10, 2019

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George Will: President adds self-impeachment to his repertoire (Opinion)

Oct 10, 2019

Donald Trump, an ongoing eruption of self-refuting statements (“I’m a very stable genius” with “a very good brain”), is adding self-impeachment to his repertoire. Spiraling downward in a tightening gyre, his increasingly unhinged public performances (Google the one with Finland’s dumbfounded…

Gazette-Mail editorial: Manchin right in blasting withdrawal from Syria

Oct 10, 2019

Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., criticized the abrupt decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, calling it a “terrible miscalculation.”

Susan Bissett: Grandparents are forgotten heroes of opioid epidemic (Opinion)

Oct 10, 2019

The roots of Grandparents Day (celebrated each September) go back to 1956, when a West Virginia mother named Marian McQuade was organizing a community celebration for those over 80.

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Readers' Vent: Oct. 10, 2019

Oct 10, 2019

I don’t need to look up the definition of a liberal. I know what they are and I know I don’t like them or what they stand for. I won’t vote for a Democrat regardless if I like the person or not based upon the liberal agenda that party promotes. I want people that place working, retired and h…

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Oct 10, 2019

LETTER: Congress must pass national park restoration bill

Oct 9, 2019

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Alexandra Petri: In a world where everything is permitted (Opinion)

Oct 9, 2019

WASHINGTON, NEXT WEEK, AT THE RATE THINGS ARE GOING — Asked to account for his attempts to pressure Ukraine into influencing the election, Donald Trump responded by standing bare to the elements in the middle of the South Lawn and shouting, “IN A WORLD WITHOUT GOD, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED!” …

Ben Fields: Some pearls of wisdom on MLMs (Opinion)

Oct 9, 2019

It was at least a year ago. Maybe two. My wife called me into the living room. I had to see what she was watching on her phone.

Gazette-Mail editorial: Saving arts in schools essential

Oct 9, 2019

There’s an ad from Dick’s Sporting Goods that shows Little League baseball, soccer and football programs reading a “to whom it may concern” letter telling them their program has been nixed because of a lack of funds.

Stephen L. Carter: Sports Illustrated needs a plan, not your outrage

Oct 9, 2019

The Sports Illustrated saga refuses to end. Last week, the commentariat erupted with fury after the venerable magazine laid off at least 25 percent of its editorial staff, including a number of respected writers, and announced plans to hire scores of part-time freelancers.

Readers' Vent: Oct. 9, 2019

Oct 9, 2019

Is “free” K-12 education socialist? How is “free” college different than “free” K-12? It’s a bad thing that college debt now stops so many people from starting businesses and families. “Socialist” doesn’t mean, “deprives bankers of cash stream.”

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Oct 9, 2019

Gazette-Mail editorial: WV education still has a long way to go

Oct 8, 2019

Hats off, to Kenna Elementary School, for exceeding West Virginia state standards in every category by which the school is measured. Congratulations also, to Evans Elementary, in Jackson County, which exceeded in every category but one.

Sean O'Leary: Use economic data with care (Opinion)

Oct 8, 2019

Every year, at our Summer Policy Institute, I give a presentation to the students there on finding and working with economic and other data sources. One of the key lessons is that, with economic data, particularly in a small state like West Virginia, there is a balance between timeliness and…

Bob Beach: Where agriculture and the WV economy meet (Opinion)

Oct 8, 2019

I think we can agree agriculture touches all our lives, but for obvious reasons many only recognize the food that makes its way to our tables.

Readers' Vent: Oct. 8, 2019

Oct 8, 2019

If photo ops could fix Charleston the city would be pristine. But they don’t and the do-nothing, missing in action, mayor who doesn’t care is guiding the beautiful city of Charleston into the dumps. Charleston deserves better!

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Oct 8, 2019

Tom Burger: Focus on facts in dealing with climate change (Opinion)

Oct 7, 2019

It’s no surprise that people who have a vested interest in the fossil fuels industry are reluctant to accept the overwhelming evidence that increasing temperatures are doing great harm to our planet. However, what is encouraging is that companies like BP (once known as British Petroleum) are…

Tom Crouser: Jobs are up, but manufacturing's down (Opinion)

Oct 7, 2019

The U.S. added 136,000 jobs in September and unemployment dropped to a low which hasn’t been seen since Joe Namath led the New York Jets to victory in 1969’s Superbowl III. That’s good, right? It’s more complex than that.

Gazette-Mail editorial: Tragic case comes to tragic end

Oct 7, 2019

The shooting death of 15-year-old James Anthony Means, of Charleston, and everything that followed checked a lot of boxes for what is lamentably an all-too-familiar and distinctly American tragedy.

George Will: Legislative branch should add protections, not courts (Opinion)

Oct 7, 2019

The beginning of the Supreme Court’s term this week includes momentous oral arguments on Tuesday in two cases that illustrate clashing theories about how statutes should be construed. If properly decided, the cases will nudge Congress to act like a legislative body.

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Oct 7, 2019

Readers' Vent: Oct. 7, 2019

Oct 7, 2019

I am perplexed by the occasional vents that claim that President Trump is working for the American people. Seriously, what has he done?

Guest editorial: Washington can agree on cutting drug prices

Oct 7, 2019

This editorial originally appeared on Bloomberg News.

Leonard Pitts: Trump's civil war (Opinion)

Oct 6, 2019

“If Democrats are successful in removing the president from office (which they never will be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” — Donald Trump, roughly quoting Robert Jeffress, a conservative Dallas preacher

Rick Wilson: Don't take food from hungry kids

Oct 5, 2019

Over the last few years, West Virginia has made major progress in school-based child nutrition, thanks to the federal Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, West Virginia’s 2013 Feed to Achieve Act and the wise decisions of nearly all county school boards.

Mac Warner: Automated voter registration coming

Oct 5, 2019

Multiagency coordination is underway between lawmakers, the Division of Motor Vehicles, secretary of state, county clerks and the governor to provide West Virginia with new systems to implement “opt-out” Automated Voter Registration. The process is technical, and needs to be done properly to…

Howard Swint: I-68 extension lynch pin for W.Va. development

Oct 5, 2019

West Virginia is on the threshold of a golden economic opportunity that could not only insulate the state to downward recessionary forces but also reorder its manufacturing base for generations to come.

Pamela Constable: I'm returning to an America I don't recognize

Oct 5, 2019

KABUL, Afghanistan — My office here overlooks a well-tended rose garden, surrounded by high concrete walls and scrolls of razor wire, which the neighborhood cats have learned to navigate unscathed. Beyond, though, danger lurks: car bombs, kidnappings, shootouts between insurgents and police.

Readers' Vent: Oct. 5, 2019

Oct 5, 2019

When was the last time Trump signed a legislative bill into law? Trump wont sign a bill with bipartisan support. He doesn’t want to look weak. The U.S. Senate President, Mitch McConnell, will not allow a vote on a bill unless Trump says he will support and sign it. They don’t want to look we…

LETTER: Justice hurts the very children he claims to be helping (Opinion)

Oct 4, 2019

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Funerals for Monday, October 14, 2019

Chapman, Donald - 11 a.m., White Funeral Home, Summersville.

Faucett III, Jehugh - 1 p.m., Grace Bible Church, Charleston.

Gilmore, Debora - 1 p.m., Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes.

Glover, Carrie - Noon, Preston Funeral Home, Charleston.

Holstein, Ronnie - 11 a.m., Pineview Cemetery, Orgas.

Hornbeck, Jo Ellen - 2 p.m., Bartlett-Nichols Funeral Home, St. Albans.

Keller II, George - 1 p.m., First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary.

Lacy, Angie - 1 p.m., Fidler & Frame Funeral Home, Belle.

Myers, Angela - Noon, Stevens & Grass Funeral Home, Malden.

Painter, Dorothy - 1 p.m., Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill.

Park, Emily - 11 a.m., Old Stone Presbyterian Church, Lewisburg.

Stone, Karen - 7 p.m., Casdorph & Curry Funeral Home, St. Albans.

Sweet, Ufa - 11 a.m., Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston.

Tomblin, Vonnie - 1 p.m., Mountaineer Missionary Baptist Church, Harts.

Williams, Raymond - 1 p.m., Dodd & Reed Funeral Home, Webster Springs.

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