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Opinion

Bid Preference Good Idea

Editorials

Ohio County Board of Education members deserve credit for looking at ways in which local companies’ bids on big school construction projects can receive some level of preference. This comes after the school system awarded a bid of $1.99 million to a North Carolina contractor to replace the ...

They Are Coming for Us — They Will Come for You Next

Local Columns

As frustrating as it might be to hear politics preached from the pulpit, even more troubling is to find politicians attempting to legislate religious adherence. “Montani Semper Liberi,” “Mountaineers are always free,” our State motto proclaims, hearkening back to our origins and the ...

Pats on the Back

Editorials

- To members of the Ohio County Board of Education for making the decision to return Wheeling Park High School’s homecoming parade to the downtown. The event has been held at the high school for the past few years, and with the Streetscape project nearing its end, bringing the parade back to ...

Kennedy’s Platform Coming Into Focus

Editorials

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been Health and Human Services secretary for less than two weeks, but he’s already pressing what looks like an anti-vaccine agenda. The HHS secretary has many tools to undermine vaccines, and his early moves are revealing. News reports say he’s preparing to sack ...

Helping Our W.Va. Neighbors In Need

Editorials

It is the reality of living in this wild, wonderful land we love that it seems almost annually — sometimes more often than that — flooding and mudslides turn our waterways and hills into a deadly landscape. We have almost become accustomed to the news reports — and the calls for ...