I’m writing this on Valentine’s Day, three days into the 60-day legislative session, and if Gov. Patrick Morrisey and some members of the Republican caucus in the House of Delegates have love for each other, I’m having a hard time seeing the floating hearts. Morrisey presented his first ...
If you have experienced pain at the grocery check-out lately — and not because you still haven’t mastered ringing up your own produce — you’re not alone. In fact, according to a WalletHub study, “States Where People Spend the Most and Least on Groceries,” West Virginia is second ...
America, unfortunately, has long been suffering from a crisis of civics. Put simply, many Americans are woefully ignorant about the structure and features of their government. But every so often, an opportunity emerges to reteach some basics. The media’s predictable shrieks and howls of ...
Given the headline-a-day approach of Donald Trump, it isn’t easy to understand what is happening on any particular day. The “shock and awe” approach confuses matters even further. Odds favor that this represents political pyrotechnics and brinkmanship, but one never knows with the ...
The first meeting of our “First Friday Focus on Education” group at Kump Education Center was well attended by 15 of people who really care about education. We had parents, grandparents, teachers and college education professors. At the end of the meeting, the group wanted to create a ...
During his first State of the State address Wednesday, Gov. Patrick Morrisey painted West Virginia as being at the start of a “comeback.” If that is the case, it is a resurgence long overdue. Our challenge now is to engineer that comeback with a focus so strong it is not slowed by those ...