Opinions
Rooting out Medicaid fraud demands new leadership
CHARLESTON – Waste, fraud and abuse are rampant nationwide and West Virginia certainly is no exception.
West Virginia needs coal jobs and a better EPA under Pruitt
Dear Editor: Retaining a coal job over the past few years has not been easy, but I’ve been blessed to keep my job at Mepco. Still, like so many others in my community, I’ve been worried about the of future of my career over the past eight years as the “War on Coal” has seemed to have no end in sight.
U.S. Senate should confirm Pruitt as EPA Administrator
Dear Editor: It is clear that West Virginia has been a victim of Obama’s War on Coal these past eight years.
'Don't cut anything! Just keep raising taxes!'
No one in his right mind would turn to Hollywood for economic advice – or almost any other kind of advice, outside of acting and filmmaking tips – but there's a three-letter word that directors shout at the end of every scene that guides the thinking of managers at private companies: cut.
'Hellhole' label used to blackmail lawmakers into rigging civil justice system
MORGANTOWN – For more than 10 years the American Tort Reform Association, a front group bankrolled by America’s most powerful and wealthy CEOs, has attacked West Virginia with its widely discredited “Judicial Hellhole” report.
Bradley Dugan fails to scale Mt. Frito-Lay
What kind of an airhead comes across a box of yet-to-be-unpacked snack items blocking the aisle in a grocery store and – instead of taking a detour or waiting for an employee to remove the obstruction – tries to climb over it?
Voter mandate for change is a mandate to change
MORGANTOWN – During the recent election cycle, a common theme emerged as to the operation of the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office.
Obama pokes West Virginia in the eye one last time
How many West Virginians feel sorry for Barack Obama?
Can state government be 'rightsized?'
MORGANTOWN – As Governor-elect Jim Justice and lawmakers prepare for what is expected to be a challenging session of the Legislature, the term “rightsizing government” is being tossed around.
Dear President-elect Trump, please end the war on coal
Imagine a president using his office to safeguard the rights of the American people, advance our interests and increase our prosperity!
Trump's appointment of Pruitt will bring EPA back in line
MORGANTOWN – The environmental left is apoplectic over President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
With Obama's exit near, Capito accentuates the positive
Shelley Moore Capito has spent much of her first two years as the junior U.S.
W.Va. Democrats have become the party that didn't listen
WHEELING – A political party that stops listening to its voters is like a person who has stopped breathing. For a short time, nothing seems to change. But it gets uncomfortable quickly, and then unbearable. That is how the West Virginia Democrats find themselves after 2016: suffocating.
If you've been negligibly injured or slightly inconvenienced, call now!
“Who's your lawyer?” “Who is?” “Who is what?” “Who's a Hoosier lawyer?” “I didn't say anyone was a Hoosier lawyer.” “Sure, you did.
Outgoing Justice Benjamin strikes a libertarian chord
MORGANTOWN – Outgoing state Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin has always had a libertarian lean.
Three strikes and Ed Kohout is out
Edward R. Kohout has been suspended at least three times in the course of his legal career: once by the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University in Birmingham and twice by our Supreme Court of Appeals, this last time permanently. In case you're wondering, he was suspended from law school after being caught selling books he'd stolen from the university bookstore.
Internet access necessary for growth
PARKERSBURG – While the energy sector has served as a powerful engine of growth here in West Virginia since the Industrial Revolution, a new economic driver has made its way to the Mountain State: the internet.
We're not indestructible, yet
Powered exoskeletons to make us stronger, brain implants to make us smarter –what will they think of next?
Good Gravy!
EDITOR'S NOTE: This editorial originally appeared in the Nov. 16, 2007, edition of The West Virginia Record. Also, both cases mentioned in the following editorial eventually were settled out-of-court and dismissed.
A chance to make West Virginia great again
“Well, well, well.” That's what the chap said when he saw three holes in the ground.