Opinions
President Biden is right: We must end hunger
CHARLESTON – President Joe Biden recently announced his administration’s goal to eliminate hunger and reduce diet-related diseases by 2030. His plan is based around five policy pillars; improve access to food, integrate nutrition and health, empower consumers to make healthy choices, support physical activity and enhance nutrition and food security research.
Manchin's 'sugar high' with Republicans didn't last
MORGANTOWN – Senator Joe Manchin’s roller coaster poll numbers have taken another dip. Morning Consult reports this week that the West Virginia Democrat is now underwater, with a disapproval rating of 51 percent and an approval rating of just 42 percent.
The red tape impeding the health care services West Virginians need most
West Virginia has the highest prevalence of heart attacks, lung cancer, and drug overdose deaths of any state. However, red tape in the form of “certificate of need” (CON) laws and regulations obstruct the provision of health care services to treat these ailments.
Capitalizing on a (properly implemented) bipartisan infrastructure law
WASHINGTON – Last fall, Congress passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that made record investments to address, upgrade, and expand our nation’s core infrastructure.
Combating lawsuit abuse presents opportunities for jobs and growth
CHARLESTON – For decades, West Virginia’s legal climate ranked among the worst in the nation. This negative attention arose from real defects in our state’s civil justice system that put our state courts solidly outside of the national mainstream – a non-starter for job creators choosing where to invest and expand their business.
Manchin has explaining to do for his Inflation Reduction Act support
CHARLESTON – For more than year, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., seemed to stand strong against top-down radical ideas from his colleagues, like the Green New Deal and more wasteful spending. Then came the Inflation Reduction Act.
Guns are a-blazin' in this legal shootout!
If you’re looking for a good old-fashioned shootout (hopefully one that doesn’t include more guns), stay tuned here. We’ll keep covering this modern-day gunfight at the W.V. Corral as best we can.
We have full access to West Virginia courts ... in 7.5 of our 55 counties
We here at The West Virginia Record have one complaint that has been a major problem for us since we started our newspaper and website back in 2005. It’s online access to the court system.
Veterans, families harmed by poison water at Camp Lejeune soon will have a remedy
As many as one million military and civilian staff and their families may have been exposed to the drinking water. Most affected were Marines, but anyone who spent 30 days or more could be affected.
AFP-WV is doubling down on supporting policy champions
As West Virginia trends more red, the focus of political intrigue will center on hotly contested Republican primary races.
All hail the newest Knight of the Golden Horseshoe!
Remember a few years ago when Gov. Jim Justice promised the state a rocketship ride? We didn’t know he meant we'd be taken for a ride as we suffer from spiraling inflation and gas prices that continue to skyrocket. Prosperity, indeed.
Where there’s culpability, there also should be accountability
We cannot bring back the lives lost to the opioid epidemic, but our efforts will allow the money to start coming in to address the underlying issues brought about by this menace. We can target resources to those who need it most.
West Virginia judges living in the Wild, Wild West
It’s almost as if they think having the title of judge means they can do whatever they want, so they take the law into their own hands. They seem to think the rules don’t apply to them.
Biden rollback of permitting reform is making his own energy goals impossible
Now it is time to come together and reform the environmental review and permitting process to support an all-of-the-above approach to American energy — including oil, gas, coal, nuclear, renewables, and critical minerals.
It’s time to unleash American energy independence
Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) says the Biden administration's energy policies led to record-high gas prices.
County officials preparing for May 10 primary election
West Virginia's 2020 election turnout rate was the second-highest in state history. An independent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology placed voters’ confidence in West Virginia's election results in the top 10 nationwide.
Judge Carter Williams should resign in disgrace
What is it with this guy? He’s been a lawyer for 30 years, a judge for five, and he’s continually being investigated for alleged lawbreaking.
Raskin was ‘a risk we can’t afford’
It might have been Senator Joe Manchin's announcement that pushed Sarah Bloom Raskin into removing herself from consideration for a key Federal Reserve position.
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the governor’s office
For being such a big man (in every way, shape, form and fashion), West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice sure is small.
West Virginia should restore freedom to vote to those with past convictions
West Virginia lawmakers have the chance to deliver on something that voters all across our state can get behind, and when such an opportunity would restore the freedom to vote for thousands of West Virginians, that's a chance we can't afford to miss.