I understand Sen. Joe Manchin’s aggravation with fellow Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., authoring an op-ed in the Gazette-Mail urging Manchin to get on board with the Biden administration’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., went after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., recently in an opinion piece published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
No, Democrats are not socialists and are not trying to turn America into a socialist or communist country like Cuba, Venezuela, China or the former Soviet Union.
A recent op-ed in the Gazette-Mail from retired Concord University professor Joe Manzo lays out reasons for adopting term limits, arguing that it is, ultimately, the only way to hit “reset” on sets of policymakers who have run amok.
I watched with interest the protesters in Washington, D.C., recently who participated in the People vs. Fossil Fuels.
Gov. Jim Justice says he has a plan to expand broadband internet access into underserved areas of West Virginia by using about $1 billion in public and private investment. Up to 200,000 residents and businesses should benefit, he says.
The number of new daily COVID-19 cases in West Virginia continues to slowly decline. The Department of Health and Human Resources reported less than 9,000 active cases, as of Wednesday, down from more than 25,000 a month ago.
Here’s how TV news works: What is just an annoyance becomes a concern. A concern turns into a serious worry. And a serious worry is elevated into a crisis. Stoking anxiety is how they keep the public glued.
On Oct. 16, I drove to West Virginia from my home near Richmond, Virginia, to visit the grave of my mother, Sharon, who died in 1987 and my step-father, Carrington, who died in 2014.
Over 4,100 West Virginians have died because of COVID-19. Currently in our hospitals, nearly 80% of those admitted for COVID-19 are unvaccinated. Those percentages go up for patients in intensive care and on ventilators.
I don’t know what a typical West Virginia family is, but mine might be close.
Christopher Holmes started feeling sick in early June. He went into the hospital with COVID-19 on June 14, and remained there for 80 grueling days.
Climate change — and the pollution that causes climate change — isn’t just a threat to “the planet” in the abstract; it is already affecting West Virginians’ lives and harming our health. And the risks seem to be escalating rapidly.
I am a retired family-practice physician currently living in West Virginia — in the same house I left 70 years ago to study for and then to practice my profession.
The West Virginia Public Service Commission is taking considerable heat from various groups over its decision to allow for environmental upgrades to three major coal-fired power plants in the state.
The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. The opposite of freedom is not tyranny, it is order, as pure freedom is chaos.
Gazette-Mail cartoon: October 18, 2021
This editorial originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times and was distributed by the Associated Press.
When teachers look into the eyes of students, we see a lot. Where they come from, where they are going, what subjects excite them.
I cannot remember a more intense time than we are in now. We are on the verge of high stakes changes in federal public policy that will affect every one of us and our descendants for decades to come.
It’s time for Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote Act.
Sins in the realm of the insular principally extend from the singular offense of being an auslander, a foreigner, a Not One of Us. To this group, Us, which means Not You if you are Not One of Us, few crimes disturb so greatly as that of Outsiders setting foot in the realm, a violation declar…
These are challenging times for everyone, both in the public and private sectors, something I know well as the president and CEO of HD Media and the minority leader in the West Virginia House of Delegates.
In America today, the very rich are becoming richer while millions of working families are struggling to put food on the table or pay their bills. We now have the absurd situation in which two multi-billionaires own more wealth than the bottom 40% of Americans; the top 1% owns more wealth th…
As a leader in the fight to combat the opioid epidemic, it might be surprising to hear me say that we don’t have a drug problem in West Virginia. What we have is an addiction problem.
It’s on! McKinley versus Mooney.
Gazette-Mail cartoon: October 17, 2021
The members of the West Virginia, Morgantown and Kanawha Valley Chapters of the National Organization for Women are appalled at Gov. Jim Justice’s misogynistic, sexist and disrespectful comments made on Oct. 7 about Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin.
For all of the noise from both sides leading up to and during a Wednesday hearing on the value of the Charleston Town Center mall, the result was a pretty fair decision.
We should not allow a future with electric vehicles and its associated jobs to pass by West Virginia.
The special session of the West Virginia Legislature to redraw the legislative and congressional boundaries was moving along relatively smoothly, at least as lawmaking goes. But then a curveball — albeit unintended — came flying through the halls of the Capitol.
Republican leaders, their feet mired in Trumpism’s quicksand, have become incapacitated. They stand in a stagnant swamp that is essentially of their own making, unable to direct well-deserved outrage at events that threaten our democracy. Instead, they aim darts at imaginary “attacks on free…
According to 2020 Census Bureau data, West Virginia lost 3.3% of its population in the past decade, the worst rate of loss in the country (and there were only two other states that actually lost population).
Gov. Jim Justice gave a masterclass in circular reasoning and contortionist logic during his COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday.
There isn’t a person in this country right now who doesn’t have an opinion on the words and actions of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
I believe American democracy is worth fighting for. It’s why I joined the Army, to protect our freedoms here at home. I also take it personally when politicians and special interests look to undermine our democratic institutions.
The West Virginia Legislature this week will likely complete the protracted effort to create single-member districts for all 100 seats in the House of Delegates.
In news from the state with the highest rate of overdose deaths and COVID-19 deaths in the country, Gov. Jim Justice got his feelings hurt last week.
Jimmy Wriston is the new secretary of the West Virginia Department of Transportation and commissioner of the Division of Highways. Gov. Jim Justice appointed him to the position last week, following the retirement of former secretary Byrd White.
I worked as an elementary school teacher for 25 years, so I’m pretty good at breaking down complicated ideas into smaller, simpler, ideas. I’d like to think that I have some ability to help people think “critically,” which doesn’t mean to criticize things, but to weigh facts and evidence, an…
