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Gov. Joe Manchin and other state officials repeatedly note that West Virginia isn't suffering the extent of budget troubles that most other states are, and they are generally correct.
There seems to be an increase of child abductions and rape or murder of children. Many times, the abductor is a known felon who has been paroled from prison for the same or similar crime, some of them three or four times in the past. This has become so common that we really have lost sight of the real problem. Let the punishment fit the crime!
Sworn in on Feb 9th 1825 the election of John Quincy Adams was controversial. In the Presidential election of 1824, none of the four candidates received a majority of the electoral votes. The race for the office of the 6th President of the United States came down to John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Speaker of the House...
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A twilight fog began to engulf my van, and drizzle hitting my windshield threatened to freeze with the temp dropping to 33 degrees as I headed home from a North Carolina editorial trip. I was riding with lots of traffic on Interstate 40 hoping to make it to Mt. Airy for the night.
The paranoid person believes he or she is being persecuted by other people, outside agencies such as being from Mars, by spies from another country, terrorists, by people appearing on television and so on.
Editorial: WVU incident example of larger problem
Crude behavior by students at a West Virginia University basketball game last week has been thoroughly denounced by state officials from the governor on down, and rightfully so.
Gov. Joe Manchin has done all he can to keep his proposed constitutional amendment for a tax break for new businesses alive at the current legislative session, but it may still not be enough to assure its approval by the House and Senate.
I don't know whether Susan Estrich has actually viewed the "Tebow Video" that is to be aired Sunday during the Super Bowl, an ad which she condemns in advance as insulting and offensive. I have not. But I understand that it is a celebration of life. Who can be against that?
As a lifelong resident of the Fairfield community, I care about my neighborhood. Through my volunteer efforts as a Cub Scout leader, president of the Fairfield West Improvement Council and member of the Prevention, Intervention, Treatment and Recovery Subcommittee of the Weed and Seed Program, I work every day with the issues that concern my community.
The West Virginia State Tax Department has made great strides in recent years to process taxpayers' personal income tax returns quickly. However, there are several aspects of the annual tax filing season that cause some taxpayers to wait weeks rather than days for their payments to be processed or their refunds to be issued.
As Gov. Joe Manchin and the West Virginia Legislature wrestle with how to reduce business taxes to boost economic development, they may have hit upon a reasonable step.
Those of you who have an interest in sports and are not attending the Marshall men's basketball games this year are really missing out. Not only are these young men winning games, they are so much fun to watch. There is an excitement in the Henderson Center I have not seen in many years. Kind of reminds me of the "Huck's Herd" years.
The anxiety level is ratcheting up in Huntington's Fairfield neighborhood and with good reason.
Isabelle Gwynn Daine's love of the arts took her around the world, but she never forgot her hometown.
Recently there has been talk by the Lawrence County Commission to put a tax levy before the citizens to provide for ambulance service. However, it is not the ambulance funding that needs help. It is money they need to find for the sheriff's department budget.
Colleges and universities in West Virginia have avoided the dramatic cutbacks that have plagued higher education in many states over the past two years.
Barack Obama's ability to stir the soul of the masses through stage presence alone is rapidly dwindling.
I would like to know why we have commercials on TV showing all of these cats and dogs starving and abused, yet we don't have one showing the kids of America who are in the same but even worse conditions than the dogs or cats are in.
In a recent column, a writer misrepresented a point I had made in a previous column, specifically that he "could not speak on the subject (of global warming) scientifically." What I actually did was to point out that he was not an environmental scientist, yet endeavored to make critical comments about a scientific phenomenon. Whether he had the ability to do so would be based on how well he understands the nature of the scientific process and, in particular, the distinction between weather and climate. His recent column, in which he asks for proof of anthropogenic global warming, suggests that neither is understood particularly well.
Editorial: Despite setback, arena merits continued support
The Create West Virginia Conference came to Huntington last October, attracting hundreds of people to participate in activities such as this workshop at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena.
A few weeks ago, three of us were crossing a downtown street on our way to lunch. The light was green for the oncoming traffic, but one car slowed down measurably. Thinking the driver was being considerate of cold weather pedestrians, we almost started to cross the street.
It's not the kind of problem you usually find in a downtown business district, but it's one that is developing in Huntington.
The purpose of this letter is to address the insensitive remarks by televangelist Pat Robertson, who, in effect, blamed the Haitians for the earthquake that devastated their island nation.
