Opinion

A Path To Solve West Virginia’s Water Problems

Local Columns

For many years, numerous water systems in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle have been in distress. Whether it’s from industrial pollution, lack of adequate supply or simply limited infrastructure investment, many communities have been impacted and left with no or limited access to this vital resource we call water. I grew up in the Ohio River Valley where I graduated from Paden City High School, West Liberty State College and West Virginia University. I still have family and friends who are part of the region. It’s hard to witness what many residents have had to endure when it ...

Musings on Loss of City’s Winter Viennese Ball

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: The announcement of the cancellation of the Wheeling Winter Viennese Ball is met with great disappointment among many. Sometimes, the ball goers embraced a winter night filled with crisp, cold, biting north winds and fresh snowfall. A Winter Wonderland: a true Vienna winter atmosphere. The decorated Glessner Auditorium red carpet world, the scent of beautiful fresh cut flowers that took the onlookers dressed to the nines to the magical time of the House of Strauss, as the young cotillion members who had spent countless hours in organized workshops and dance ...

WVU Must Ensure It Is a Good Investment

Editorials

West Virginia University President Michael Benson had a lot of big ideas in his first State of the University address this week. They come as he is in the middle of an effort to visit every county in the state — an important attempt to truly understand his new home and the state his university serves. Sure, it’s nice to learn the holiday lighting party will return to Woodburn Hall this year, but it is also encouraging to hear Benson has a realistic understanding of the challenges faced by the university, and the need to tackle them — with help from those who responded to the ...

Make Sure To Move Over

Editorials

There are plenty of designated days, weeks and months meant to raise awareness and perhaps steer conversations toward finding solutions to some of our biggest challenges. For example, the third Saturday in October is National Move Over Day, according to a representative of AAA, who spoke with WCHS earlier this week. Lori Weaver Hawkins told the news station “That gives us an added way to really educate the public and bring awareness to this issue.” Ignoring the rules continues to prove deadly in West Virginia and everywhere, as Beau Evans with the Governor’s Highway Safety ...

MEC A Wonderful Wheeling Partner

Editorials

As the Mountain East Conference held its preseason men’s and women’s basketball press conference at WesBanco Arena — the home of the MEC Basketball Tournament since 2019 ­— Commissioner Reid Amos discussed why the conference decided to extend its deal with the city of Wheeling for another three years. “(T)he outstanding support we’ve received from The Health Plan and CEO Jeff Knight and Dave Flatley who coordinates an organizing committee, the support we’ve received from the City of Wheeling and we’ve worked with the current mayor, Denny Magruder, when he ran WesBanco ...

Student Loan Issues Not Good for W.Va.

Editorials

Among the concerns for some of those worried about their finances amid a federal government shutdown, continued increasing inflation, high interest rates and an unsteady jobs market, is the burden of student loan repayment. In West Virginia, that burden is especially heavy. According to personal finance company WalletHub, West Virginia carries the eighth most student debt in the country. The Mountain State is 25th for average student debt, but third for the proportion of students with debt and fourth for student debt as a percentage of income. Meanwhile, the state is 15th for the ...