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Editorials

Celebrating Safely This Holiday Season

“Over the river and through the woods” gets taken to another level in West Virginia during the holidays. No matter where they live now, the Mountain State is still “home” to thousands upon thousands of people who will be making the journey home for the holidays. According to the state ...

Keep Public’s Business Public

As they neared the finish line of the 2024 session, Ohio lawmakers slipped into House Bill 315 a provision that will harm all Ohioans. HB 315 will do little more than limit the public’s access to public information. Now it heads to the governor’s desk. Surely Gov. Mike DeWine will see ...

Find a Purpose for School Site

Just because a building is old doesn’t necessarily mean it’s worth spending $25 million to save. Such is the case of one of the city’s most neglected sites — the former Clay School in East Wheeling. Members of Wheeling City Council on Tuesday made the right decision in choosing to ...

Has McLure House Found New Future?

It was with great interest this week that we learned a potential developer has stepped forward to purchase the McLure House Hotel in downtown Wheeling. Returning the condemned downtown anchor point to functional use is a key to the city’s future. Josef France, owner of Roadside Properties ...

Pats on the Back

- To the Bishop Darrell Cummings and all the staff and volunteers that turned out Saturday to make the Bethlehem Apostolic Temple’s Christmas giveaway a success. Your efforts are truly appreciated by all in the community. - To Wheeling resident Paul Smith for his recent reappointment by ...

America, the Land of Second Chances

A day before President Joe Biden announced the largest act of clemency in one day in modern presidential history, Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Cory Booker, D-N.J., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., celebrated the earlier passage of their Second Chance Reauthorization Act of ...