Opinion

After about one year and one month as the Executive Director of the Hardy County Chamber of Commerce, I am...

Whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, the WVU football opener had plenty of items to match your point...

By Stephen Smoot You can find them almost anywhere. They show up at the diner every morning to gab with...

U.S. politicians seem unable to keep us out of foreign wars. The United States has been in a state of...

By Stephen Smoot In early 1918, the brutal Bolsheviks had seized control of the dying Russian Empire. As they killed...

By Stephen Smoot Consider a man who has worked painstakingly to fabricate an entire life that is not his own....

By Amy Pancake, Associate Director and COO, Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation, apancake@ewvcf.org Every August, familiar signs of a new...

By Stephen Smoot Last week The Atlantic put out an article called “Throw Your Children’s Art Away.” That publication, a...

Why our power bills are so much is a constant question we face at the Commission. And there are no...

WVU students have moved in, and classes have started. And the WVU sports year is officially underway! The first official...