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Congress Must Tackle Infrastructure Permitting Reform

Inflation is wreaking havoc on America’s consumers, and the associated shortages and supply chain disruptions are driving prices ever-higher across the economy — especially in the energy sector. Among the most troubling roadblocks to alleviating this pain is America’s inability to ...

Steele Has Work Cut Out for Him in Speaker Bid

We will see what happens after November, but if House Government Organization Committee Chairman Brandon Steele wants to bump out House Speaker Roger Hanshaw from his podium, he's going to have to sway incoming new Republican House of Delegates members.Steele, R-Raleigh, announced over a week ...

Bill Russell — Our Nation’s Champion of Champions

This month will be the 59th anniversary of the March on Washington that took place on Aug. 28, 1963. It is believed that between 200,000 to 300,000 people participated in the March. The last speaker was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was not on the original program, but because of his recent ...

New State School Board President Gets No Easy Introduction

Paul Hardesty, the new president of the West Virginia Board of Education, told me last Wednesday morning that he was completely blindsided by State Superintendent of Schools Clayton Burch's request to transfer to the open slot as superintendent of the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind."It's ...