As West Virginia state officials have been doing for several years now, Secretary of State Kris Warner pushed back against federal overreach this week when he announced the Mountain State will not volunteer the release of personally identifying information of every registered West Virginian to ...
A 99-yard kickoff return touchdown would be nice for West Virginia, in the economic Backyard Brawl, but the state needs to get a few first downs, too. One idea for helping make some of those smaller plays successful is the formation of an Office of Entrepreneurship, through state House Bill ...
鈥淭he dead tree is as important as the living one.鈥� *** One of my favorite Fight Club quotes goes 鈥� 鈥淵ou are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We鈥檙e all part of the same compost heap. We鈥檙e ...
As a young photojournalist in the 1980s, I would frequently see firefighter Joe Matthews at the different fires and accidents around town. Joe was always friendly and helpful; he understood that we had a job to do and understood when I might have gotten a little closer than I should have to a ...
As a few attempts to address West Virginia鈥檚 woeful health indicators and perpetually bottom-of-the-barrel quality of life rankings have made their way into public policy over the past year, lawmakers have continued to look for new ways to address the matter. As it seems these days ...
Lawmakers who were sent by voters to Columbus to cut wasteful spending and unnecessary layers of government have an interesting idea in front of them in state House Bill 520. The measure, now sitting in the House Local Government Committee would 鈥渆stablish and convene a Blue Ribbon Committee ...
