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Some Odds and Ends From Under the Dome

Today is the deadline for bills to be introduced in the West Virginia Senate. As of Sunday, we are now two-thirds of the way through the 60-day legislative session with less than three full weeks left. We’re also just over a week until Crossover Day, when bills must be passed by the body ...

Kandrach: America Is Facing Looming Port and Trade Catastrophe

During the pandemic, Americans learned how painful supply chain disruptions can be. Now, a newly proposed action from the Trump Administration could unintentionally make the pandemic’s supply chain disruptions seem tame. President Trump is looking to rapidly rebuild American shipbuilding. ...

Marshall Memo: Upcoming Trip to Dallas; Festival of Steel; and Charlie Brown

The “George Drinks Water” robotics team from John Marshall High School—Sophie Cunningham, Lilly Bergen, and Knox Wilson—took home the Design Award at the West Virginia High School Robotics State Championship this past Monday at Fairmont State University. That win punched their ticket to ...

It’s Time for Wheeling to Stand Behind New Mayor

A recent opinion piece in The Intelligencer about Wheeling Mayor Denny Magruder left me scratching my head, so much so that I felt compelled to respond. It took an unusually aggressive tone and read as the grievance of someone still disgruntled over the outcome of Wheeling’s recent mayoral ...

What World Needs Is Forgiveness — and Love

On July 5, 2016, officers responded to a convenience store about 12:35 a.m. after an anonymous caller indicated a man selling music CDs and wearing a red shirt threatened him with a gun, Baton Rouge police have said. Two officers responded and had some type of altercation with the Black man in ...

Coverage of Riley Gaines Act Wasn’t Just ‘Clickbait’

Last week, we had the first of Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s bills be signed into law. Senate Bill 456, the Riley Gaines Act that defines “male” and “female” in State Code, is now the law of the land. We in the media are sometimes criticized by lawmakers for focusing on the social ...