Opinion

This week, West Virginians didn’t just get sold out—we got steamrolled. Our U.S. Senators, Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice,...

The Power of Possessives By Commander Steven M. Wendelin, USN (Retired) When I was a young junior officer in the...

Unbased First Published on 07/01/2015 Gay Marriage I think the Supreme Court was wrong to take politicians off the hook....

Happy Birthday, America Happy birthday, America.   I always look forward to the Fourth of July celebrations and festivities, including...

By Stephen Smoot My wife and both sides of her family hail from New York City.  Her father’s family was...

First Published on 06/24/2025 I’m glad I trimmed Big House’s front yard’s bangs yesterday. Spent an hour or so wandering...

“When Cyrus entered Babylon in 539 B.C., the world was old,” wrote historian A. T. Olmstead in his History of...

Letter to the editor; A word of, I don’t know, encouragement, comfort, hope. I’m not saying the National Guard in...

By Stephen Smoot On April 17, 1861, newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln faced a nightmare scenario.   In the Washington...

We strive at the Public Service Commission to resolve complaints in the simplest, fairest, and most expedient manner possible, consistent...