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Opinion

Five candidates in 2nd District campaign

Columnists

Now that the state Legislative session is over, focus now turns to the many contested Republican primaries for higher office, though now that President Joe Biden has enough delegates for his Democratic Party nomination and former President Donald Trump has enough delegates for the Republican ...

Lack of Will

Editorials

It’s no wonder the federal government doesn’t really know how to interact with West Virginia state agencies. Sometimes we’re ahead of the game, other times we are slow spenders — or simply do not do what we said we would do. The latter is the case with more than half a million dollars ...

Curious case of Cowger

Columnists

When writing about lobbyists in my column last summer, I wrote about Caiden Cowger, a Republican political operative and the president of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia. While Cowger’s predecessor at the Family Policy Council, Allen Whitt, was a registered lobbyist with the West ...

Budget

Editorials

Though it appeared to many to be a mess of our own making — and one that required urgent action — federal officials are being generous in their assessment of West Virginia’s handling of a potential $465 million problem. “West Virginia is not alone. There are other states,” said a ...

Playing the ‘criminal immigrant’ card

Columnists

President Joe Biden chose to scrap a bit with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene at the State of the Union — a choice that should remind us of the old saw, “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” Greene has two modes: heckling and lying. This time, she was doing ...

Another setback

Columnists

Ken Buck is fed up. The Republican lawmaker from eastern Colorado already announced (last November) that he would retire from Congress at the end of his term. But now that apparently is not soon enough. On Tuesday, he abruptly surprised many on Capitol Hill — particularly fellow ...