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Let’s not let this crisis go to waste – show appreciation for unsung heroes

Now is the time to support our leaders, to stop finger-pointing and playing "gotcha" with one’s perceived political enemies at every opportunity. It is the time to show appreciation for the unsung heroes all across this country, the time – to borrow a phrase – to make America great again.

By The West Virginia Record | Mar 24, 2020

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It might be time for Judge Warren McGraw to retire

This might be a good time for Judge McGraw to engage in self-examination and consider whether or not he himself needs to seek a change of venue.

By The West Virginia Record | Mar 17, 2020

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No intermediate appellate court this year

By The West Virginia Record | Mar 11, 2020

“Will this be the year that West Virginia finally gets an intermediate appellate court?”That was the question we posed in an editorial two weeks ago.

Depriving Americans of lower-cost energy is depraved

By The West Virginia Record | Mar 4, 2020

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a 600-mile conduit of natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia and North Carolina. The pipeline is good for them and good for us. For whom could it possibly be bad? Who could possibly want to perpetuate scarcity, high prices, and deprivation?

House should pass bill establishing appellate court

By The West Virginia Record | Feb 26, 2020

The most compelling argument in favor of establishing an intermediate appellate court may be the trial bar’s opposition to it.

Those plantiff’s attorneys who push too far

By The West Virginia Record | Feb 19, 2020

It seems like Judge Wilson assumed too much. He gave the plaintiff attorneys too much credit. He overestimated their level of maturity. To his credit, though, he seems to be losing his patience, and it’s about time.

Scare-mongering films are not evidence

By The West Virginia Record | Feb 12, 2020

We’ve had enough of this nonsense. Let’s put the kibosh on emotional appeals and re-embrace reason. Give us the unadulterated facts and let us analyze them. Then we can determine if there is a problem, and what to do about it.

The insanity is over: ‘navigable’ now means ‘navigable’ again

By The West Virginia Record | Feb 4, 2020

Let that be the end of the nightmarish, Humpty-Dumpty world where words can mean whatever any meddling, overzealous bureaucrat says they mean.

Everyone else has an intermediate appellate court!

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 28, 2020

Maybe 2020 will be the year we finally establish an intermediate court for West Virginia – not because most other states have one, but because it’s a good thing to have.

Why the opioid crisis is being blamed on big pharmacy chains

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 22, 2020

The plaintiffs don’t seem interested in going after smaller outfits.

When so-called solutions are worse than alleged problems

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 14, 2020

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

Right-to-work, if you can get it

By The West Virginia Record | Jan 7, 2020

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.

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.”

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