1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (415+ words) A Flock Safety license plate reader is seen along a public road, Oct. 16, 2025, in Houston. A bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers is calling on the Ohio Department of Transportation to stop approving new Flock automated license plate readers in state…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (174+ words) Why have our leaders in government become so unmoored from traditional American ways of economic organization, government, and social life? They have ever-so-quietly slipped on the clothing of tyranny and belligerency and fiercely hold their ground like their lives depend…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (322+ words) Letter to the editor: No 'American dream' for this immigrant herald-dispatch.com On Sept. 1, a 20-year-old college student ran into traffic to kill himself in Springfield, Ohio. Perhaps not a story worth national attention. Pierre Damas Bel’s suicide, however,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (340+ words) Bring enough power to operate or risk being forced to cut el… Labor Day was created to celebrate all the Americans who wor… The Charleston Gazette-Mail published this editorial on Sept. 3. Once again, it appears West Virginia is full steam…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1166+ words) In West Virginia, about 4,000 fewer children have Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits about a year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed. About 4,000 fewer West Virginia children have federal food assistance benefits as of May, a year after President…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (319+ words) The 2026 midterm elections will be free, but they may not be fair. This is a shocking realization for Americans who have grown up believing in American exceptionalism and holding an unshakeable faith that we are the world’s oldest and most…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (738+ words) When my wife and I retired from our professions in Richmond, Virginia, 12 years ago, we made the decision to return to Huntington. Both of us were born and schooled here and are graduates of Marshall University. Upon returning, we were…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (427+ words) Chief Justice C. Haley Bunn (left), Becky Kirkpatrick (center), and H. L. Kirkpatrick (right) participate in the swearing in to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia in the East Wing of the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. Attendees…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (547+ words) President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicates the Summersville Dam and Lake on Sept. 3, 1966. Confederate soldiers burned most of downtown Sutton on Dec. 29, 1861. Troops camped at Blair Mountain during mine wars in September 1921 to force the surrender of miners. West Virginia Wesleyan College…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (1465+ words) “You ain’t men to that coal company. You’re equipment, like a shovel, a gondola car, or a hunk of wood brace. They’ll use you ‘til you wear out or you break down, or you’re buried under a slate fall, and…...