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Awaiting Confirmation

Local Columns

West Virginians awaiting U.S. Senate confirmations will have to wait a little bit longer. Due to Senate Democrats dragging out votes on President Donald Trump’s appointees, the Republican majority has begun approving appointees in large batches. On Thursday, the Senate approved 48 Trump appointees. The next big block of appointees (hat tip Frank Thorp V at NBC News) will likely occur at the beginning of October, assuming the nation is not dealing with a government shutdown. The next block consists of 59 names, including three West Virginians. State Sen. Mike Stuart, R-Kanawha, ...

Celebrating 135 Years of Service

Editorials

We truly are in the “information age.” Never before has so much information been exchanged by so many, so quickly. But long before most people used the term “information technology,” we at the Wheeling News-Register were experts in using it. Today is our 135th birthday. We at the newspaper celebrate it not just because of our long history of service, but also for what our track record says about the future. On Sept. 22, 1890, when the News-Register began publication, founder H.C. Ogden insisted that service to readers and communities would be our guiding light. Back ...

Honoring Ohio’s Heritage

Editorials

Ohioans are proud of their state’s history as a vital component of the Underground Railroad. That’s why it is exciting to learn from Gov. Mike DeWine, the state Department of Development and TourismOhio that the Ohio Historical Underground Railroad Trail is expanding. There are now 48 stops on the trail, with new additions such as the John Gee Black Historical Center in Gallipolis, Lucy Depp Park in Powell, the Gabriel Smith Memorial Gateway to Freedom Display at the Preble County District Library in Eaton and the Black Heritage Library and Multicultural Center in Findlay. Many ...

West Virginia Must Focus on Growth First

Editorials

Two of the state’s top political leaders — Sen. Jim Justice and Gov. Patrick Morrisey — are now taking jabs at one another over the efficacy of vaccinations, with Justice, the state’s former governor, standing firmly behind the science. It is getting hard to understand Morrisey’s position on this matter — particularly at a time when he is working to make the state more attractive to business and more competitive with its neighbors. Morrisey’s executive order expanding religious exemptions for school vaccination requirements represents a worrisome departure from ...

Will Trump’s Actions Result in 2026 Congress Change?

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: Republican politicians know how unpopular President Donald Trump’s actions are. His tariffs are raising prices. His ICE-men are kidnapping nannies and farm workers. His fawning over Putin is un-American. His shaking down companies and universities, accepting bribes of cryptocurrency and airplanes, is corruption. Cutting medical insurance and food programs for working people, while giving tax-breaks to billionaires, is revolting. Republican politicians know they have to cheat, to rig the next election, to stay in power. So they’re changing voting ...

Wheeling Streetscape Project in the Final Stretch

Editorials

Three years. That’s how long it appears it will take for workers to complete Wheeling’s Downtown Streetscape Project, as final touches are now underway and work is set to be completed in the coming weeks. Back in October 2022, when the project began, it was hard to believe that replacing sidewalks and repaving Main and Market streets and some of the intersecting streets would take 36 months. Yet the project hit multiple snags along the way — from unplanned sewerline work to multiple change orders to the installation of those awkward and somewhat dangerous bioswales — ...