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Local Columns

Addressing Challenges With Health Care Staffing in W.Va.

The core mission of hospitals is caring for people. To fulfill that mission, hospitals need compassionate, skilled, trained, and dedicated professionals. In West Virginia, more than 49,000 compassionate caregivers are employed by hospitals, representing the largest segment of health care in the ...

Money Issues Complicate Justice Campaign

I feel like I haven’t written about West Virginia politics in years, but it has only been a few weeks. I’m almost away in May, between my annual Florida vacation that takes up much of the middle of the month and an annual Memorial Day weekend trip to my friend’s Kentucky cabin to help ...

Could the EPA Really Break America’s Power Grid?

As policymakers in Washington like to point out, America is undergoing an “energy transition.” But as Washington embarks on a major national shift toward renewable energy, there’s a serious question — can we manage this wide-scale transformation without losing the security and ...

March for Freedom Is Not Forgotten This Memorial Day

Sometimes on one of those late spring days when Memorial Day comes, you can almost see them, marching, marching onward, the legion of the forgotten dead. In the soft stillness and solitude of a country graveyard in the evening hush, occasionally you can hear the muffled beat of a drum as the ...

‘West Virginia First’ Agreement To Help All Mountaineers

The opioid scourge is one of the greatest challenges West Virginia has ever faced. The vast oversupply of prescription opioids caused or contributed to too many senseless deaths, and too many broken families, over many, many years. We have fought hard—and we’re still fighting—to bring a ...