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* Eligible patients in northwestern West Virginia will benefit from a Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation grant that will help Memorial Health System provide free breast cancer screening and mammography services. With the $80,000 received, Memorial will also be able raise awareness for early ...

United Front: Working together gets the job done

Bipartisan efforts to address housing accessibility and affordability are becoming more common, though many are at the state level. Now federal legislation introduced by U.S. Sens. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., could help increase home ownership in rural regions by expanding ...

Purple Up: Recognizing students from military families

Educators across the state understand each child comes to the classroom with different experiences. They try to meet the needs of individuals even while they’re teaching many students at once. Some of those children are part of military families, with their own set of challenges. During ...

Overreach: Feds have no right to our full voter data

Federal officials continue to behave as though they have the right to demand access to West Virginia’s full unredacted voter registration database. Earlier this week, U.S. Department of Justice attorneys filed a memorandum asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West ...

Mine Safety: Risky conditions must be investigated

Last week, two West Virginia communities suffered losses that have become much rarer — thank goodness — but still are thought of as something to be accepted as a risk taken by those who work in our coal industry. Two coal miners died within a 24-hour stretch late last week — Thursday ...

Native Soil: Ancient earthworks worth celebrating

Local residents know something about the importance of celebrating and educating about the earthworks that enhanced this region’s landscape long before the Ohio Company showed up. But even if many of ours are no longer fully visible, there are still spots in the Buckeye State where Hopewell ...