Think about the Ohio River and you are likely to think about the wide body of water flowing gently past Marietta, Belpre and Parkersburg as giant barges move materials up and down the river and boaters dart about on the Ohio and up the numerous tributaries. Adequate water in the Ohio River ...
As a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, one of my primary responsibilities is ensuring that our government is responsibly funded so it remains open and working for the people we represent, including hardworking West Virginians. That鈥檚 why I鈥檓 deeply disappointed to see ...
Much like a lot of things these days, a speech given last week by West Virginia Board of Education President Paul Hardesty has become a Rorschach test depending on where you stand on the issue of public education versus 鈥渟chool choice.鈥� During the state Board of Education鈥檚 regular ...
CALENDAR, NOT WEATHER, PROCLAIMS WINTER TO BE NEARLY HERE. It is winter on Prunty Avenue in Elizabeth; it is not particularly the cold weather that proclaims this; it is the date, December 9, that brings it to bear on leaf, man and the birds that fly upward. The leaf is prostrate on the ...
Observers who chose not to stay up until past 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning to watch West Virginia lose to BYU 38-24 might have looked at the final score Saturday morning and concluded that the Mountaineers had at least shown improvement and were competitive. They would be sadly mistaken. ...
I鈥檝e reached the age where news of a celebrity death is more likely to make me feel a twinge of 鈥渙h, that鈥檚 a shame鈥� than it did when I was younger. Now the names mean something to me, often reminding me of a favorite movie or song from what feels like lifetimes ago. But this week I ...
