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Opinion

Flooding the zone

Columnists

During the early days of Republican rule, a term was used to describe the strategy for governance. It was known as “flooding the zone”, surprising Democrats with so many initiatives that it either unhinged the opposition or sapped their morale. At first, it was spearheaded by a gaggle of ...

Boos & Applause

Editorials

Applause to the West Virginia Highland Dancers, who will present their 2025 Spring Highland Fling event this evening. The Fling will be at 7 p.m. at the Myles Center for the Arts at Davis & Elkins College. The performance is free to the community. The show will be “a vibrant ...

Philosopher returns

Columnists

“Learning in life never stops, even though the student grows older. And if so, the older I become, the younger I am.” These words of wisdom are penned by Dr. David Morrison, a Davis & Elkins College student from 1975-1979, a trustee from 2015-2024, and a Visiting Scholar on campus ...

Vaccines

Editorials

Members of West Virginia’s House Health and Human Services Committee have injected a measure of common sense responsibility into the conversation about vaccine requirements for public and private school students in the state. When state Senate Bill 460 made its way over to the House of ...

Due process for all, or none

Columnists

President Trump is using an 18th-century law — the Alien Enemies Act — to justify the deportation of hundreds of people he says are members of a vicious Venezuelan gang. That law was last used during World War II by the Roosevelt administration to justify the internment of Japanese ...

Democrats should stop rescuing Republicans

Columnists

Chuck Schumer is right, and James Carville is right. They don’t want the Democratic Party getting pulled into MAGA’s cyclone of ruinous policy. To get to safety, they are reining in the left flank for whom the fight is all. The hotheads don’t recognize that bad timing loses ...