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Opinion

Grand Vue’s Growth

Editorials

Tucked away in Moundsville, Grand Vue Park is a hidden gem that gives Ohio Valley residents another place to play outdoors. The park recently broke ground on a project that will make it even more attractive. The park is spending $3.8 million to build four new cabins at the park. Two will look ...

Clean Water For West Virginians Is A Congressional Priority

Local Columns

Spring in West Virginia is truly “almost heaven.” Life comes back to our forests, wildflowers scatter across the mountains, and spring rains send cold water rushing through our mountain streams and rivers. Unfortunately, many West Virginians don’t have reliable access to that clean, ...

Gambling Still A Problem

Editorials

As lawmakers continue to look for ways to kick-start our sluggish and somehow still backward-looking economy, West Virginians are falling prey to another draining and damaging addiction at a higher rate than in most other states. WalletHub’s “2026’s Most Gambling-Addicted States” ...

Prescription Take Back Day Important

Editorials

Saturday is National Prescription Take Back Day, a twice-a-year opportunity for us to collect the expired and unused prescription drugs in our homes and dispose of them safely. Having those drugs around the home can be dangerous. They can become lost, stolen and sold illegally, or misused by ...

McKinley Always Put W.Va. First

Editorials

For those who followed his career, David McKinley’s legacy is neither complicated nor difficult to define. In more than four decades of public and professional service to his state, he consistently put West Virginia and its people first. McKinley died Friday at age 79. He is one of just a ...

A Call Home: McKinley Never Lost Touch With The People He Served

Local Columns

It became common practice over a dozen years in this editor’s chair that at least one or two Thursday or Friday afternoons each month were reserved for a phone call from then-U.S. Rep. David McKinley. McKinley, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives during that time, would ...