The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice Democrats are poorly positioned to criticize, even though the seventh president owned slaves and ...
The tone was set by Franklin Graham’s invocation. Preachers are a fixture at presidential inaugurations, but until now they’ve confined their words to asking the Almighty to bless the new president and his family and to guide the nation to goodness and mercy. The prophets were popular ...
Joe Biden‘s presidency is not going out on a pleasant note. His popularity is below 30% in some polls, yet he insists he was a successful President. Some progressives still taut his successes in passing legislation on par with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. It has been an ...
The title of a favorite Christmas carol has been a real inspiration to me during these last weeks of extreme cold. Bleak midwinters have been part of life in these West Virginia hills for thousands of years, and finding ways to keep warm has been a central focus for women in all cold climates. ...
Applause to everyone who helped set up and man local warming stations during this week’s extreme winter weather. When Pastor Roy Schneider of the Refinery Church in Elkins learned that temperatures overnight this week were projected to be well below zero, he knew he had to snap into action ...
Greetings, and thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I am an educator. I hold a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s degree. I am a highly qualified teacher. No, I do not teach in Randolph County, but I am a resident of the city of Elkins, with ancestral roots in ...