When the new Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2023, it will mark the end of the longest 50-50 Senate in the history of our country. The narrow makeup forced compromise and ultimately the 117th Congress was the most productive Congress in decades. As Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural ...

There’s an old saying that goes, “with great freedom comes great responsibility.” In my mind, one of the best examples of that phrase is the relationship between the government and the media. It’s an adversarial relationship by nature because we co-exist in the same sphere of operating ...

This past year there were numerous undertakings in different areas of Marshall County, and you can expect more beginning in January. Some of those projects involved the Marshall County Commission, the City of Moundsville, the Marshall County Health Department, the City of Cameron, Grand Vue ...

I hope each and every one of you had an enjoyable Christmas even with the sudden dip in temperatures and, in some cases, ice and snow. I started writing this column Thursday from my office space in the Press Room in the basement of the State Capitol Building. Your State Capitol Building is ...

As a child, my favorite Christmas story was a little volume, a gift from my mother, Henry Van Dyke’s “The Story of the Other Wise Man.” As Van Dyke related the story there were four Magi, not three, who set out to find the newborn King of the Jews — Caspar, Melchior, Balthazar and ...

And finally it’s Christmas. A time for remembrance of happy Christmas past; for enjoying happy Christmas present; for anticipation of happy Christmas future. Many years ago, Francis Church of the New York Sun wrote a famous editorial in reply to a letter from an 8-year-old girl, Virginia ...