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Vaccinations: Morrisey choosing politics over science

Two of the state’s top political leaders — Sen. Jim Justice and Gov. Patrick Morrisey — are now taking jabs at one another over the efficacy of vaccinations, with Justice, the state’s former governor, standing firmly behind the science. It is getting hard to understand Morrisey’s ...

High Points of the Valley

* While data for individual school districts may still indicate a need for improvement, it is encouraging to learn West Virginia’s overall performance in the annual Balanced Scorecard for public and charter schools continues to improve. Even chronic absenteeism continues to show improvement, ...

Tick Bites: Don’t let down your guard

If you consider yourself to be a carnivore, the West Virginia Department of Health has given you yet another reason to be vigilant about avoiding ticks. Earlier this month, the agency reported multiple cases of the tick-borne Alpha-gal Syndrome, which can cause a variety of symptoms as a ...

Education: Wood County Schools has job opportunities

Wood County Schools is facing a problem familiar to many employers in our region: too much work to get done, not enough people willing (or qualified) to do the jobs. But the effort to fill those staffing shortages continues with events such as this week’s job fair held at the Caperton ...

Urgency: Officials must work fast for health funds

“The program tackles the root causes of rural health care failure. It gives states the tools to design solutions that last, not Band-Aids that fail.” That was Dr. Mehmet Oz, on the speedily unrolled Rural Health Transformation Program that will make available $50 billion — a possible ...

Citizenship: Educate yourself on the issues and vote

Tuesday was National Voter Registration Day. Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. In other words, it is a week during which Americans are asked to think a little harder about what our founders had in mind when they were signing the Constitution back in 1787, and whether we are ...