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Opinion

Mental health access must be a priority

Local Columns

In West Virginia, we pride ourselves on resilience. We rally for our neighbors, we lift up our communities and we carry our burdens with grit and grace. But when it comes to mental health, resilience alone isn’t enough. Access to care, support and hope must be part of the story, too. This ...

Biden Derangement Syndrome

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Lately, several letters in this paper seem more focused on blaming President Biden than addressing the reality of what’s happening right now under President Trump. It’s starting to feel like Biden Derangement Syndrome—an obsessive need to attack the past while ignoring ...

Please, remember your mother next Sunday

Local Columns

This week, I would like to use this small section of your Sunday paper to remind you that next week will be Mother’s Day. We blinked. And now, it is already mid-May. The month in which we are supposed to pay tribute to the woman whose every breath has been dedicated to our well ...

Ending the power drain in Ohio

Editorials

Ohio lawmakers finally acted in concert to rid Ohioans of a nearly $400,000 a day burden when they voted to end the subsidies for two outdated and unprofitable coal-fired power plants — one of which is in Indiana. The Ohio Valley Electric Corp. plants had been getting bailed out by a ...

The Red Cross is here to help

Editorials

Our region is no stranger to natural disasters and other emergencies. And, as federal officials tell states more frequently that they are on their own after flooding and catastrophic storms, the assistance we can expect is changing. But while states such as West Virginia, Arkansas and ...

The freedom to practice our faith

Editorials

Americans of all faiths will gather Thursday to participate in the annual National Day of Prayer. Held on the first Thursday of May, the event has been set aside as a day to ask for God’s help for our communities, our states and our nation. The annual commemoration has been held ...