A dozen years ago, when George W. Bush was President, I wrote my first of thirteen columns lamenting our nation’s inability to solve immigration problems. Three presidents later, rational long-term immigration legislation is still absent.
The purge of Robert C. Byrd’s name as that of a racist whose memory must be erased has begun. Will it continue?
The names of Albert Gallatin Jenkins and Stonewall Jackson offend many people in West Virginia. They want these names removed from places of honor.
For the past several weeks, I have written about former Logan Countians who at some point left these hills and achieved what I shall term as a “forgotten avenue of greatness.”
I remember as a youngster spending hot summer afternoons standing alone in what we all referred to as “the bottom,” which is now where the Verdunville community playground is located at Mud Fork.
Have we become a nation of germophobes?
I have been frustrated in my attempts to find meaningful information about electoral candidates in West Virginia. The Logan Banner has proven to be the best source of such information that I have found in my extensive searches. I greatly appreciate the job that you are doing in providing the…
The worst of the novel coronavirus pandemic is past us, at least in the United States. What began in China and traveled to the West has now moved on to afflict Third World countries. Latin America, India and South Africa are the latest hot spots for the disease.
Here we are again. We’re at the same place we’ve been so many times in the recent few years. The names and venues change, but the script is pretty much the same.
There is a small green sign at Amherstdale on Buffalo Creek in Logan County that simply reads “Cowan Avenue.” It is a solemn reminder for those few people who actually know that the sign represents the father of one of the Los Angeles Rams’ all-time great football players — Charlie Cowan, wh…
There was much excitement in Huntington a few months ago when Marshall University announced it was ready to build a long-awaited baseball stadium.
Here are the candidates the Gazette-Mail has endorsed in the June 9 primary election.
As a longtime postal employee, I’m working through the coronavirus period.
Logan County, like much of southern West Virginia, prides itself in having established the Hatfield-McCoy trails that thousands of people come each year to traverse through the hills and valleys that have for over a hundred years produced the black gold, which throughout history truly helped…
Few West Virginians have a direct connection to the state Supreme Court of Appeals. The court moves along in relative obscurity and only comes to people’s attention when a controversial ruling turns an established part of life upside-down.
Gov. Jim Justice has been a divisive figure in West Virginia government the past three and a half years. The question before West Virginia voters now is whether they want to continue the course he has set or if they want a new direction.
“I don’t want to die alone on a ventilator” — A friend from church
“I don’t want to die alone on a ventilator” — A friend from church
There is a “history” behind everything, be it good, bad, or simply interesting. Unfortunately, too many things of historical significance fade away with time, just like human beings. Future generations therefore, oftentimes cannot relate to people and events that should be made a part of you…
There is a “history” behind everything, be it good, bad, or simply interesting. Unfortunately, too many things of historical significance fade away with time, just like human beings. Future generations therefore, oftentimes cannot relate to people and events that should be made a part of you…
“I don’t want to die alone on a ventilator” — A friend from church
There is a “history” behind everything, be it good, bad, or simply interesting. Unfortunately, too many things of historical significance fade away with time, just like human beings. Future generations therefore, oftentimes cannot relate to people and events that should be made a part of you…
In case you haven’t noticed, West Virginia has an election coming up. People who live for politics tend to hype every election as being the most important in our lifetimes. This one probably isn’t, but that doesn’t diminish its importance.
In case you haven’t noticed, West Virginia has an election coming up. People who live for politics tend to hype every election as being the most important in our lifetimes. This one probably isn’t, but that doesn’t diminish its importance.
In case you haven’t noticed, West Virginia has an election coming up. People who live for politics tend to hype every election as being the most important in our lifetimes. This one probably isn’t, but that doesn’t diminish its importance.
In case you haven’t noticed, West Virginia has an election coming up. People who live for politics tend to hype every election as being the most important in our lifetimes. This one probably isn’t, but that doesn’t diminish its importance.
I get a little perturbed when I hear on television the comparison of today’s economic hardships in relation to the Great Depression that started with the stock market crash of 1929.
I get a little perturbed when I hear on television the comparison of today’s economic hardships in relation to the Great Depression that started with the stock market crash of 1929.
COVID-19 has upended our communities, nation and world. Everyone has been forced to adapt; previous work, home, free time and social schedules have been obliterated.
In one week in March, we jumped from 2020 to 2030. That’s the assessment of West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee. In some ways, the response to the COVID-19 virus brought the world of 2030 to the world of 2020, Gee said in a joint meeting of the editorial boards of The Herald-Dis…
Sometimes, I like to pilfer through a slew of notes, pictures, books, magazines and things that I’ve piled up either at my home or in my office, some of which I have set aside, and, frankly, just forgot about. Therefore, allow me to partially clear off my desks by passing along to readers a …
I’m not too superstitious and don’t always believe that the number 13 is unlucky. You see, I was born on Jan. 13, so I sometimes have birthdays on Friday the 13th, therefore I can’t believe it’s unlucky. Then came Friday, March 13, 2020. Whether I believe in luck or not, it was an unfortunate day.
After two or three years of construction, the new section of West Virginia 10 near Huntington opened to traffic last week. The wider, straighter road from Huntington High School to Cedar Crest Drive cuts a few minutes off the driving time and allows for faster movement of traffic through the area.
We’re in the middle of the best time of year — the months of April and May. April usually starts with bare trees and ends with green ones. The greens get deeper and richer in May, and the month ends with the unofficial beginning of summer.
Like no one saw that coming.
There is clearly confusion amongst the masses, as more people pull down their virus prevention masks to speak of the upcoming election on all three fronts — local, state and federal.
My parents were born in 1909 and 1910. As they became adults, sought work and planned marriage, the country entered the Great Depression, which essentially ran from the 1929 stock market crash into the early 1940s.
It’s almost time to vote in West Virginia. The coronavirus pandemic has upset the normal rhythm of the primary election season to the point that processes of voting and counting votes has changed.
Last month the Georgia Environmental Protection Division denied a request to extend the construction permit for a new power plant.
West Virginians say they want their voices heard in national affairs, yet they are ignoring the best way of accomplishing that.
The recent death of Jean Queen, a fine lady who formerly served as both a teacher and then later as a member of the Logan County Board of Education, got me to thinking about how politics has changed in Logan County. Just in the last few years, things have evolved in dramatic fashion, probabl…
Anyone who tells you that the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t affected everyone has a problem with reality. Our lives have not just changed; they’ve been upended. Some of these changes will affect us indefinitely; others will fade with time.
There’s a dam waiting to burst when the novel coronavirus has peaked and public health officials give people the all clear to resume their normal lives.
It was the summer of 1972 and the almost unbearable scorching heat was taking its toll on the “boys of summer” — better known as the “Porch Sitters.”
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