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Opinion

WPD Gives City Good Image Through Show

Editorials

Here’s a case in Wheeling of boring being something good. REELZ has the Wheeling Police Department among its filming subjects for its “On Patrol: Live” program, where camera crews follow officers and broadcast real-time interactions. The network hasn’t filmed in Wheeling since the ...

Job Fairs A Big Plus

Editorials

School districts around the Ohio Valley have done well for their older students in holding job fairs over the past month. Both Wheeling Park and John Marshall high schools have hosted such events, which give their students a closer look at potential jobs and careers. “The beautiful thing ...

Figuring Out Opioid Fund Distribution

Editorials

There is still what to many West Virginians is an unfathomable amount of money to be spent out of the money entrusted to the West Virginia First Foundation. Nearly $40 million has already been handed out in grants. Now the foundation is planning to spend another $1.5 million to figure out what ...

Bringing Down The Gavel

Local Columns

The two leaders of the West Virginia Legislature came under scrutiny last week for different issues, though one is being more transparent than the other one. First, my friend Brad McElhinny with West Virginia MetroNews reported last week that a political action committee connected to Senate ...

Wheeling Must Seize The Defining Moment

Editorials

This past Tuesday, 14 ceremonial shovels turning over dirt at perhaps the highest point of Center Wheeling marked the official groundbreaking for the WVU Cancer Institute St. Joseph Regional Cancer Complex. It was encouraging to hear hospital, city and local development officials discuss just ...

Americans Deserve Clearer Message On Iran War

Local Columns

The United States has joined Israel in opening a war with Iran. For the last half century, Iran has fomented destabilizing terror in the Middle East while violently suppressing voices of opposition by its own people. The world would be a safer place without the theocratic regime of Iran. But ...