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Summer concerts are great, no matter their form

Local Columns

The summer season is still a couple of weeks away, but the summer concert season is in full gear in the Upper Ohio Valley. Memorial Day saw the first of the seasonal concerts with a performance in Follansbee by Twice as Nice in Follansbee Park. The Monthly Monday Music Madness series, organized by the Brooke County Area Chamber of Commerce, is actually twice monthly, and will alternate its events between Follansbee Park and a site next to the log cabin near the Brooke County Courthouse in Wellsburg. The Historic Fort Steuben Concert Series made its return this past Thursday, with ...

National Cancer Survivor Day

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor, Today, Sunday, June 1st, has been declared National Cancer Survivor Day. Today is a day to recognize and honor cancer survivors. Today is a day to celebrate life! To celebrate National Cancer Survivor Day, Trinity Health System and Tony Teramana Cancer Center will be hosting "Savor the Sweet Life" event on Thursday, June 5th, from 10am to to 2pm. This event will be in the parking lot across from the cancer center. On Saturday, June 7th, the Brooke Hancock chapter of the American Cancer Society will be celebrating life with a Relay For Life event. The Relay for ...

Guest column: Lawmakers must remember to listen to the people

Local Columns

When is Greg Thomas going to start telling West Virginians the truth? For two decades he’s misled us, claiming that he’s fighting for what’s best for West Virginia and the people who live here. Nothing is farther from the truth. Thomas represents woke, out-of-state corporations worth billions, not our local businesses and not us. These corporations hide behind front groups called “Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse” and “American Tort Reform Association,” and they have bankrolled his efforts from Day 1. It is their spokespeople and lawyers who provide testimony before ...

Be your own best advocate

Editorials

It’s hard to know where to start when it comes to tackling the many challenges that are holding back West Virginians. There’s a new metric, a new study nearly every day that shows us how very far we have to go. But it’s important to use that information to help us change things — to show us where “the way things have always been” has gotten us. Among the more recent studies was WalletHub’s “States Where People Spend the Most and Least on Health Care.” Mountain State residents who already know we are among the most unhealthy in the country can guess where we wind up ...

Guest column: Ending the electric vehicle mandate

Local Columns

Oftentimes in Washington, promises made go unkept, and priorities fall to the wayside as politics take over. I’m proud to have worked in tandem with my colleagues and President Trump to make good on a promise I made. On May 22, Congress struck down a key aspect of the Biden Administration’s nationwide EV mandate under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). This is a win for American consumers and protects Congress’s constitutional and statutory oversight authority over federal agencies and unelected bureaucratic overreach. How did we get here? More than 50 years ago, Congress ...

When will rail safety be a priority?

Editorials

Norfolk Southern says it still expects site restoration in East Palestine to be “substantially complete by early/mid June.” This despite additional monitoring wells being installed as recently as the end of March, and sediment and surface water monitoring that continues to show evidence of the catastrophic derailment that occurred there more than two years ago. Charts made available by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show there is still visible sheen on affected waterways — in fact, instances of heavy sheen being observed as late as April in part of Sulphur ...