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It behooves us to ask who’s benefiting from all the activism, and who always gets stuck with the bill.

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 14, 2020

Right-to-work, if you can get it

Four years ago, West Virginia became the 26th right-to-work state in the nation when our Legislature overrode former Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s veto of a bill prohibiting workers from being required to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment.

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 7, 2020

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On the watch list once again

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 3, 2020

Four years ago, West Virginia managed to climb out of the judicial hellhole we had wallowed in for more than a decade, but we’ve remained on the American Tort Reform Association’s “Watch List” ever since, perilously close to the hole’s edge and perpetually in danger of slipping back in.

Let’s make energy and pipelines great again

By The West Virginia Record | Dec 17, 2019

Message to all the green bullies: Oil is good, pipelines are good, and we’re not giving them up.

If you don’t give the quid, you don’t get the quo

By The West Virginia Record | Dec 11, 2019

The phrase “quid pro quo” has been bandied about lately, what with Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives charging that President Trump offered one to the president of Ukraine. Trump, they claim, promised substantial foreign aid in return for the promise of an investigation into the possibly corrupt activities of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, while “serving” on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.

Are we the only ones who can still be ridiculed?

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 27, 2019

Hoosiers, hillbillies, rednecks, and crackers – we’ve all been treated with contempt by our self-proclaimed superiors, and we’ve had enough. They think they’re so smart and we’re so dumb, but they overestimate themselves and underestimate us.

Moviegoers pay to be propagandized

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 19, 2019

We weren’t there for the pitch for "Dark Waters," but we do recognize a cheesy, fast-buck formula when we see one.

You can't blame Kroger for a pre-existing condition

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 13, 2019

If insurance companies won’t cover pre-existing conditions, why should supermarkets? You didn’t know supermarkets cover pre-existing conditions? Well, they don’t, actually, but someone needs to explain that to Jennifer Thompson and Carolyn Foster.

Brenda Miller, do your job or find another one!

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 6, 2019

You wouldn’t think you’d need to explain to someone who’s been an Ohio County Circuit Clerk for 20 years that attorneys deserve the respect and cooperation of court employees. Brenda Miller may be just a clerk, but she seems to fancy herself a queen, with the power and authority to do as she pleases.

What’s not to like about a Judge Richard Neely?

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 30, 2019

“No one wants to bring back the bad old days of jackpot justice, including when Richard Neely was on the court. West Virginians don’t want more runaway verdicts and embarrassing actions and rhetoric from greedy personal injury lawyers like Richard Neely.”

It’s time for green revolutionaries to admit defeat

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 23, 2019

You can’t accuse the facile foes of fossil fuels of lacking energy. Knowledge or logic or honesty, yes. Energy, no. Whether it’s generated by lots of wind or the product of biomass hysteria, they’ve got plenty of energy. They never give up.

We’re enjoying Richard Neely’s retirement, and so should he

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 16, 2019

The problem with Richard Neely’s “real experience” is the same as Darrell McGraw’s: we had to live through it, too. We’re old enough to remember it, not old enough to have forgotten.

Scaremongering lawyers should be disciplined

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 8, 2019

Lawyers running anti-drug commercials should be held accountable for their claims. If they can’t substantiate those claims, they should be forced to compensate the companies whose sales they’ve depressed and the drug users whose health they’ve impaired.

Grease at a ‘greasy spoon’? What a surprise!

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 1, 2019

Is any fast food fan so obtuse as to not know the obvious hazards associated with facilities offering such fare?

Our lawsuit climate is in a holding pattern

By The West Virginia Record | Sep 25, 2019

Ever feel like you’re just treading water, not really getting anywhere? It’s discouraging. Still, it beats the hell out of being swept downstream and over the falls.

Affirming the rights of states and landowners

By The West Virginia Record | Sep 18, 2019

The original WOTUS rule proposed to interpret the terms “navigable waters” and “bodies of water” so broadly that they could be applied to every inch of every acre in every state in America – no matter how dry or unnavigable.

Opioid regulator Joe Rannazzisi, hero or villain?

By The West Virginia Record | Sep 11, 2019

What if Big Pharma is not to blame for the opioid crisis? What if it wasn’t the big bad drug companies that created and exacerbated the problem, but the politicians and government officials pretending to be the good guys?

The VA needs to protect the medical records of veterans

By The West Virginia Record | Sep 3, 2019

The VA has a responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of all veteran records, and the persons responsible for any breach should be held accountable.

Opioid ‘solution’ may be worse than the problem

By The West Virginia Record | Aug 28, 2019

Let’s hope West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's recent litigation on our behalf is not motivated by an opportunistic desire to exploit a crisis and swell state coffers by shaking down legitimate companies that may have had little or nothing to do with the crisis.

Proud to be a coal miner’s warriors

By The West Virginia Record | Aug 20, 2019

Truth be told, those who have grown up in West Virginia and Kentucky are sons and daughters of coal miners in a way – if not genetically, then psychologically at least, as grateful beneficiaries of the hard work they’ve done throughout their lifetimes.

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