At what point does one quit trying to keep winning the last political party primary? At one point does one stop trying to play to the perceived whims of a base and simply just govern? Gov. Patrick Morrisey won the 2024 GOP primary with 33.3% of the vote in a six-person primary. Albeit ...
Growing up in West Virginia, I was fascinated by the science in nature surrounding me — the deer quietly disappearing into the forest’s edge, the blinking lightning bugs dotting my backyard, the exposed rock layers drawn alongside our winding country roads. Before I even understood being a ...
The Hungry for History 2025 Summer Speaker Series hosted by the Marshall County Historical Society and the Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library continues on Mondays at noon at the Library. Next week, June 23 the feature will be Lewis Wetzel. Joe Roxby will be speaking about the man who ...
I really wasn’t expecting to have to write, in essence, an obituary for former lawmaker and politician Doug Skaff last Tuesday. The accident that killed him remains under investigation, but by all reports it was a freak accident on I-79 near Weston. Skaff’s SUV went into the back of a ...
The evidence suggests that the role of a father in the United States is changing and that the male parent can contribute much more to the child’s development during the first months of life. At a Rotary meeting that I attended, a well-respected pediatrician stated that scientist have ...
Zebrafish are cool. They’re just one of a handful of animals that can regenerate their brain, spine, and even heart after injury. Unsurprisingly, a lot can be learned from studying how these injured organs manage to grow back properly. We also know many genes involved in regeneration are also ...