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Opinion

Hancock County’s $2 million mistake

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor, In 2016, the Hancock County Commission offered a nonprofit that was operating the animal shelter $88,000 from the county’s “general account” to continue to operate the shelter for fiscal year 2017. Combined with the $100,000 annual Animal Shelter Excess Levy, the nonprofit ...

Stop piling on

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor, I’ve been truly amazed watching everyone pile on Delegate Pat McGeehan for expressing his concerns about the Form Energy project coming to Weirton. He never once said he was against the project. I am appalled by lawmakers, old and new, stating their opposition for his concern ...

Road project will help Weirton open for business

Editorials

A recent allotment of Congressionally Directed Spending dollars has put the efforts to open up former steel property in Weirton one step closer to reality. Last week, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin announced $1.5 million had been awarded through the CDS process to a ...

Our state’s health is up to us

Editorials

West Virginians love our wild, wonderful state and look forward to many decades living in this Almost Heaven we call home. But the reality is we get a shorter span of time than those living in any other state, according to a study released by healthcare and supplements company Life ...

Major League Baseball is officially back

Editorials

We Americans have a lot on our minds these days. We continue to fight over the future of Social Security and Medicare, gun control, abortion, voting rights and the safety of our banking system. There’s a long-simmering battle over privacy rights and who controls the information we have ...

More than an apology is needed

Editorials

If interim West Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. Jack Chambers’ apology last week is any indication, there is more damage to repair than his predecessor let on, regarding the placement of a hidden camera system in the women’s locker room at the State Police Training Academy. “I ...