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EDITORIAL: W.Va. Legislature is failing state’s teachers

February 8, 2018

State leaders have failed to implement an effective pay increase and to improve Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) premiums for West Virginia state employees, including public school teachers, which...

EDITORIAL: The Market is a symbol of Huntington progress

EDITORIAL: The Market is a symbol of Huntington progress

February 5, 2018

There is no doubt that Huntington has problems. Nobody disagrees with that fact. But what city doesn’t? There is an opioid epidemic crippling our city and exhausting our law enforcement. The Huntington...

Photo courtesy of Lydia Waybright.

Smiling is not in the job description

Lydia Waybright, Contributor February 1, 2018

When I was in high school, I started to learn firsthand that the list of demands for me to succeed, even as a teenage girl, was longer and much more specific than the coordinating list for my male classmates....

Controversial senatorial candidate Don Blankenship, laying out his agenda.

EDITORIAL: We haven’t forgotten, Don

February 1, 2018

Few names have as great an infamy in West Virginia as this one: Donald Blankenship. Blankenship, an ex-coal baron and recent ex-convict, is running for U.S. Senate. One of the most fatal coal mining disasters...

All eyes on President Trump as he prepares for first State of the Union address

Tom Jenkins, Executive Editor January 29, 2018

President Trump is expected to address issues such as immigration, the rise in economic success and brag about his deal-making ability in the reopening of the government. He has already hinted at saying...

EDITORIAL: Celebrities talk politics, as they should

January 29, 2018

Award show season is in full swing, with the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and most recently, the Grammy’s behind us. For many celebrities attending and accepting awards, events like these are seen as an...

Rosie the Riveter a timeless example that strength is beautiful

Lilly Dyer, Photo Editor January 25, 2018

With a polka dotted red headband and a blue work shirt perfectly rolled to expose a flex, Rosie The Riveter, a feminist icon, has taught me and so many others that ‘we can do it.’ The first time...

EDITORIAL: 'This place sucks,' America agrees

EDITORIAL: ‘This place sucks,’ America agrees

January 25, 2018

On Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin, the democrat representing West Virginia in the U.S. Senate officially announced his intention to defend his seat in the upcoming midterm election. Certainly, this announcement...

Over 2,800 attended March on West Virginia (Jan. 21, 3017), according to organizers. The sister march of the March on Washington, D.C. aimed to combat what marchers view as divisive rhetoric in American politics.

Column: Women march across history, stomping out gender inequity

Sadie Helmick, LIFE! Editor January 22, 2018

They marched in the 1900s to win the same equal social, political and economic rights as men. They marched in the 1920s for the right to vote. They marched in the 1960s for peace. They marched in the 1970s...

EDITORIAL: Jenkins ad prompts troubling questions

January 22, 2018

A week ago, a video from Congressman Evan Jenkins and his family began circulating on Facebook. In the video, Jenkins, a republican seeking incumbent democrat Joe Manchin's senate seat this November, introduces...

Wolff cries ‘Fire and Fury’ in new book

Tom Jenkins, Executive Editor January 18, 2018

In an age of “alternative facts,” “fake news,” and a growing lack of trust for the institutions that we as a country rely on to sift through the truth and the illusion, a book like Michael Wolff’s...

Editorial: ‘Fake News’ claims a danger to democracy

STAFF January 18, 2018

Since the 2016 election, one thing has been made very clear in President Trump’s administration—his opposition to the press, at one point even going so far as to tweet, “the FAKE NEWS media,” citing...

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