As you read this, we are celebrating National Newspaper Week. There is a front-page article by Al Cross that I feel makes some very valid points. Like Al, I enjoy[Read More…]

Before I get to the main topic of this writing, I want to mention that the word is getting out on Amendment 2 that would gut funding for public education.[Read More…]

It’s been a busy week round here. I had hoped to get a story in this edition about the Rotary Fall Blood Screening. Unfortunately, I ran out of time. If[Read More…]

A front-page story in this issue details the naming of the bridge over Elk River that provides access to the Braxton County Senior Center. As is noted in that story,[Read More…]

Labor Day was anything but laborsom for me. Obviously, we didn’t work. If we had, you would have received your paper yesterday. Like most of you, we enjoyed the holiday.[Read More…]

The ACLU of West Virginia is suing state Senate president Craig Blair and three others on behalf of a Greenbrier County woman who was unlawfully ejected from the Senate chamber[Read More…]

Not long after I arrived at work on Monday, I received a call from a loyal reader. His message was one of concern. He told me about the special signal[Read More…]

Jeanine and I are very proud of the fact that we have been able to help two of our grandchildren graduate college without any student debt. I have wondered many[Read More…]

Jeanine and I escaped the office last Thursday when we headed to Charleston to take part in the West Virginia Press Association Convention. We arrived at the Sheraton Hotel just[Read More…]

Well, we have begun to get a little relief at the gas pumps. Prices have come down, of course not nearly as fast as they went up. Last week I[Read More…]