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Opinion

Time To Get Downtown Wheeling Back on Track

Editorials

It was on Tuesday of this past week — July 1, the start of a new fiscal year — that Market Street in Wheeling was supposed to be paved. Or at least that’s what the schedule for the Downtown Wheeling Streetscape project indicates. In fact, the paving of 12th, 14th and portions of 16th ...

The Power of Possessives May Be the Path Forward

Local Columns

When I was a young junior officer in the Navy, I was once admonished (that’s a polite word for “chewed out”) for referring to San Clemente Island as “my island” in front of a group of visiting senior civil servants. As the Island Operations Officer, I took enormous pride in the work ...

Pats on the Back

Editorials

- To the West Virginia Board of Realtors and the Wheeling Board of Realtors for working with the National Association of Realtors to secure $100,000 in flood relief for Ohio and Marion counties. The assistance, if granted, can cover mortgage payments, temporary rental housing and hotel stay ...

A Business Case for Quality of Life in the Mountain State

Local Columns

There’s something about West Virginia that draws you in — a sense of belonging that makes you feel at home, even if you’re not originally from here. I’ll be the first to admit that when I arrived from Upstate New York, I didn’t know what to expect. What I found, though, was a state ...

Freedom Is Key to Independence

Editorials

Today, we Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence. Our focus is what the document meant — creation of a new nation, a new set of ideals to form a more perfect union. But what the document itself says about the Founders and about what they intended for us is just as important, ...

‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Delivers for West Virginia

Local Columns

West Virginians demanded generational change in November after years of mass migration, inflation, and progressive insanity. They demanded a secure border, lower costs, and a return to commonsense. Today, on our nation’s 249th Independence Day, President Trump is set to deliver on that ...