Opinion

West Virginia’s Health Care Guardrails: Ensuring Quality, Access

Local Columns

The health and well-being of West Virginia citizens is everyone’s business. Hospitals, local clinics, physicians, and so many others work together to provide quality care at the most affordable price possible for health and wellness throughout our state. West Virginia’s Certificate of Need process helps to ensure quality of care, good accessibility to providers, and, importantly, allows our hospitals to provide the best quality of care in as many locations as possible throughout West Virginia. The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce is a private, voluntary membership organization ...

Pats on the Back

Editorials

- To T.J. and Bonnie Radevski, who for 35 years owned TJs Sports Garden in Wheeling. The business served its final customer on Thursday. Along with being an excellent eatery with a motif focused on Ohio Valley sports history, the business always will hold a special place for us, as The Intelligencer’s sports page each day adorned the wall for patrons to peruse. TJs has been a staple of our region for nearly four decades, as have its owners. Join us in wishing the Radevski’s a happy retirement and thanking them for all their time and effort not only in serving Ohio Valley residents ...

Creating a Fair and Level Playing Field

Editorials

The Wheeling Planning Commission’s preliminary approval Monday for a new car wash on Mount de Chantal Road marks a pivotal moment for the city’s commitment to lawful and objective governance. While the decision aligns with the city’s zoning code and professional staff recommendations, the journey to this point revealed a concerning trend: the intrusion of personal biases and animus into what should be impartial, code-based decision-making. Over the past several months, Wash-Rite Express Car Wash’s proposal has faced multiple hurdles, not due to zoning incompatibilities — the ...

Marshall Memo: Events at the Library; Shrimp Boil; and the Strand

Local Columns

There will be several program offerings next week at the Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library. At 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, the library is teaming with Marshall County Schools to promote the importance of literacy and a love of reading as part of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Day. Shelby Haines, superintendent of Marshall County Schools, is the guest reader. She will share the Book “Corduroy,” by Don Freeman. At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, is Book Club — “Jefferson’s Sons” — by Kimberly Brubaker. On Thursday, Aug. 7 there is a book talk with Jacob ...

Sanders Visit Shows Wheeling’s Influence

Editorials

The announcement that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will make a stop at Wheeling’s Capitol Theatre on his national speaking tour is just the latest time that a national political figure has surmised that the Friendly City is an important place to visit. Future and sitting presidents have been visiting Ohio County since George Washington saw Wheeling Creek in 1770. President Donald Trump has been to Wheeling twice, in 2018 and 2019. Then-President George W. Bush made stops in 2004 and 2006. Such visits haven’t been limited to presidents. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney came ...

Flood Studies Necessary

Editorials

Time and again West Virginians in all corners of the state have had to deal with storms, flooding and mudslides that wreak havoc on lives and communities. This has gone on for generations, and after each disaster, there is always the question: Why does this keep happening? Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced this week a couple of flood mitigation studies that might help get to the bottom of that. Federal and state funding will amount to $6 million for studies of both the Upper Guyandotte River and Kanawha River Basin watersheds. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will play a significant role ...