×

Local Columns

U.S. Should Begin Exporting More Coal to European Nations

Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine, U.S. coal shipments to Europe are playing a quiet yet critical role in keeping the lights on from Rome to Amsterdam. If the shipments continue through the winter — and are ramped to replace the loss of Russian fuel — they will save millions of people ...

Manchin Should Put an End to Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’

It’s back. President Biden’s Build Back Better Act is back. Again. And it’s filled with expensive bad news for all sorts of West Virginians. Trouble is, D.C. media this past week report that Sen. Joe Manchin may go along with Biden and Democrat leadership to bring the bill back from ...

Is History About To Repeat Itself?

I smell trouble next week for Gov. Jim Justice's 10% personal income tax cut, assuming a special session still happens.As we've pointed out, Justice sprung this plan on the public and lawmakers a few weeks ago, with no member of Republican leadership in the House of Delegates and the state ...

Marshall Memo: County Fair Gets Underway; Bus Drivers Take Honors

A flag-raising/ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 6:15 p.m. Monday on the Festival Stage of the Marshall County Fairgrounds to kick off the 74th annual Marshall County Fair. Taking part in the ceremony will be fair officials, Marshall County commissioners, city of Moundsville ...

Only You Can Ensure Your Happiness

Since the pandemic began, it has been harder and harder to get people to work at a job. Some jobs have tried to bend over backwards to try to make employees to stay at work. It is said that more and more workers are griping less about their jobs, and more about their companies. Sadly, at the ...