Taking on the role as Hancock County administrator has certainly been a good transition for me. I enjoy working in a position that provides me with an opportunity to learn about many different things and, especially, the important role that county government plays in the life of our people. ...

Last week I wrote a couple of articles looking at spending by lobbyists and on lobbyists when it comes to the West Virginia Legislature. I think I was fair in both pieces. The goal wasn’t to cast aspersions on any particular lobbyist or even say their actions were bad. It was merely an act ...

The Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce is finalizing plans for this year’s Youth Leadership Weirton program. This is a program geared toward sophomores at Weir, Madonna, Brooke and Oak Glen high schools, with a goal of better preparing them for the future. As a matter of full disclosure (and ...

The Public Service Commission gets hundreds of misdirected calls each year from angry utility customers. They want to pay a bill or ask a question about their service, but they can’t find the right number. Almost every utility lists the Commission’s telephone number somewhere on its bill, ...

Here we are barely a week into July, still six months away from the 2024 candidate filing period in January and 11 months away from the May primaries. You honestly shouldn’t even care about the 2024 elections this far out, but here we are. The hottest races in West Virginia – U.S. Senate, ...

The battle over social media supremacy seems to be ratcheting up by several notches, and in more ways than one. In the last week, Meta, which is the company founded in part by Mark Zuckerberg and the operator of Facebook, Instagram andWhatsApp, announced the launch of Threads. Threads, ...