For decades, West Virginia’s representatives in Washington, D.C., tried to impress upon their colleagues the importance of directing more research funding to West Virginia University — where great progress is being made in fields ranging from neuroscience to forensic science to ...
As our state’s population decreases, so does the number of students in our schools. Declining enrollment, in turn, is creating challenges for our school districts. Some boards of education are facing the bitter reality that it is time to close facilities. But the Thomas B. Fordham Institute ...
On Wednesday, I will begin my 15th year involved with the start of the West Virginia Legislature’s regular 60-day session. I moved to Charleston during a snowy January in 2010 a week before the start of that session. I had just started one year prior a news website on behalf of a ...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is approaching its fourth year. And as it drags on, Washington is learning just how vulnerable our nation could be in a similar conflict. The glaring problem we now encounter is the erosion of our defense industrial base. The once vaunted arsenal of democracy ...
On Wednesday evening, Gov. Patrick Morrisey will deliver his first State of the State Address to lawmakers and West Virginia residents from the state Capitol. There will be the usual pomp and circumstance surrounding such events, but Morrisey has much work to do in the months ahead — there ...
Editor, News-Register: I met Roger “Cookie” Wallace through his brother Richard “Dick" Wallace, a Brooke County school bus driver who listened with encouragement about my aspiration to be in the fight racket. When I was working in Wellsburg back in the late ’70s his brother would ...