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Opinion

Liberal luminaries defend their partners

Columnists

Down in the basement of the Capitol on March 26, I witnessed in person an episode of government accountability that upset liberal journalists. That’s because it was conservatives holding leftist “public” media networks accountable. The House DOGE subcommittee questioned PBS CEO Paula ...

‘Everything bagel’

Columnists

“Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city,” former President Barack Obama rhapsodized in April 2009. “No racing to an airport and across a terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage, no taking off your shoes. Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over 100 ...

Schumer’s surprise

Columnists

Democrats were stunned by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s sudden decision to support Donald Trump’s budget. The decision threw the party into disarray and seemed a betrayal of Hakeem Jeffries in the House of Representatives, where all but one Democrat voted against the GOP ...

Rescuing schools without ruining system

Columnists

Randolph County is at the epicenter of the public education earthquake in West Virginia. The shock waves of this cataclysmic situation ripple throughout this state, and similar seismic conditions exist wherever small populations try to operate schools with limited funding in the computer ...

Focus on continuous improvement

Columnists

(This is part two of a two-part series on innovation.) Innovation often comes from outside an organization. Why? “Outsiders” have fresh eyes and are not undoing something from the inside. As discussed last week, people are comfortable with things staying the same (assuming what is ...

Home Rule

Editorials

State Sen. Ryan Weld, R-Brooke, didn’t mince words Monday when his colleagues voted to try to wrest more control of local decision-making from municipalities across the state. “This is dumb,” he said. “ … Where is this a problem that we have to address? I haven’t heard of ...