Lorelei Williams, an 8th grade student at Moundsville Middle School, was among the top winners in this year’s essay contest held by the County Commissioners Association of West Virginia. Eleven other students from different counties also received awards ranging from first place to honorable ...

America’s permitting process is broken, consumed by bureaucratic delays and endless litigation at every turn. Our inability to permit projects in West Virginia and across the country on a timely basis is not only harming our energy security and ability to provide for ourselves, it’s also ...

There’s a saying in political circles that the only thing in the middle of the road is an Opossum that has met an untimely end from a car’s tire, and the victim usually has a yellow line painted over it by the highway department. I’m hearing from friends on both the political left and ...

Seventeen Marshall County organizations have received funds through the Marshall County Commission’s Community Development program. The commission earmarks $60,000 yearly and then has a nine-person committee review the requests. This year’s requests were made by 21 agencies, with 17 ...

“My mother is someone who shows me how to live,” said Cathy Daigle, Grade 4, St. Joseph’s School, Maine. Say “mother,” “mom,” “momma” to a roomful of people and you’re likely to call forth a roomful of images. Today’s mother may be a homemaker, an executive, a doctor, a ...

The derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio — a mere 38 miles from Weirton — understandably captivated the attention of Americans for much of this year. A giant plume of black smoke tends to do that, and it also tends to lead to emotionally-driven decisions that will ...