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Local Columns

Poll Results Show Changing Dynamics in West Virginia Governor’s Race

Finally, the first new polling in the West Virginia Republican primaries for governor and U.S. Senate is out, and while it needs to be taken with a grain of salt, it does provide some interesting perspective. According to a poll conducted between March 19 and March 21 by Emerson College ...

The Alabama Supreme Court, IVF and Catholic Doctrine

The Alabama Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision, declaring that an embryo is a human being and is protected under state law from mistreatment, has brought to public scrutiny the procedure called in vitro fertilization. The media generally has derided the decision, saying that the Court’s decision ...

Marshall Memo: Smarts for Life; Natatorium; Cleanup; and a New Roof

A team from John Marshall High School won the 2024 West Virginia LifeSmarts Championship, which means they will travel to California next month to compete for the 2024 Life Smarts Varsity Team National Title. The JMHS LifeSmarts team includes: Alina Holliday, Maria Huck, Jasper Murrin, and ...

It’s Time for Americans To Prepare for Electricity Rationing

In the hours before President Biden delivered his State of the Union address, the Washington Post ran a front-page story titled “Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power.” What the Post and other national outlets have discovered is that America’s electricity demand is ...

The Curious Case of Caiden Cowger

When writing about lobbyists in my column last summer, I wrote about Caiden Cowger, a Republican political operative and the president of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia. While Cowger’s predecessor at the Family Policy Council, Allen Whitt, was a registered lobbyist with the West ...

Path to Success Is Clear for YSU

I’ve been the president of Youngstown State for nearly two months now, and despite some of the negative publicity at the beginning, we’ve gotten off to a running start on success. In fact, there are some really great things happening here at the University. In the job I left — in the ...