One of my favorite movies is Martin Scorsese’s “Casino,” with Robert De Niro as Sam “Ace” Rothstein running a major Las Vegas casino. The whole movie is great, but my favorite scene in “Casino” is a scene where a local county commissioner comes to visit Ace to get a relative of ...

There has been a lot of action in the field for the 2024 presidential election in recent weeks. A reminder that, while many analysts have issued predictions of who the final nominees will be, nothing is ever truly a foregone conclusion until the respective party conventions have held their ...

I’ve talked with you in the past with suggestions to help control rising energy costs. I’m delving back into that important subject again, but with a different twist. By the way, I appreciate you taking the time to read my commentary. I hope you find what I have to say helpful. I’m not ...

One of the things I like to do with my weekly Reporter’s Notebook is take you behind-the-scenes of how I decide what stories I write. Two weeks ago, I wrote two stories involving major announcements and how properties owned by Gov. Jim Justice are in the mix. The first was an ...

It’s almost November, which means we are only about two months away from the official filing period for the 2024 election. We’ve been seeing campaigning already, of course, but none of those are truly set until the individuals have filed their final candidacy papers. Much of the political ...

My collection of tales, many of which I have written in these columns, can be described as our collected folklore. Folklore that I have always enjoyed collecting and reading about, are those dealing with spooky topics. Ghosts, witches, cautionary tales and the like, seem to interest me, not ...