Editorials

Short takes
The state Board of Education does not communicate a sense of alarm
What was the point of picketing a brokerage firm in Charleston?
Coaches at Marshall and WVU are making good on their promises
Raising property owners' costs will affect what renters have to pay
Underhanded tricks won't make a bad health care bill look better
West Virginians need a real break, not just a weekend shopping spree

Commentary

It is Democrats who are having to do the heavy lifting
Only 44 percent of Americans wantDemocrats' bill
An intermediate court of appeals could be set up for $1.5 million

Nanya Friend

The Legislature takes high hopes and low heels
The Tech Park proposal needs close scrutiny
Taking personal responsibility is the way out
The challenged help the dispirited regain perspective
Schools alone cannot produce good test scores
The W.Va. base will thrill people across the U.S.
Lewis scholarships target W.Va. kids

Johanna Maurice

Higher taxes on workers are not the answer
Distant elites simply guarantee bad governance
With national debt at $12 trillion, more spending?
Congress can deny only us energy security
Private-sector strains reach the public sector

Don Surber

Let's examine the evidence of global warmth
Congress has made democracy look kind of dirty
Should taxpayers be forced to fund W.Va. judicial races?
Congress said it would pay as it goes along
Some jokes do ring true in politics
Who does not want to become an instant scientist?
It is unwise to mock what you don't get

Dave Peyton

The United States will fail unless we fix public schools
Gunfire in bars has a long history,and a future, too
Now, sigh, to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps

Hoppy Kercheval

Process does matter to many West Virginia voters
In the Big Apple, a glorious victory
Ultrasound bill certainly prompted intense negotiations
The costs have been enormous, but promise exists
Senators should now fear the public more than the EPA
Union members would not be told about their money
Our economy could shrink by $1.8 billion by 2030

Charles Krauthammer

It confers layers of legitimacy, yet allows challenges
Redesigning U.S. health care with one vote
We depend on things that are also dangerous
The structure is not the problem; the left wing is
Americans would have to beg rides from Russians
Three elections late, the president gets the message

Robert Samuelson

Obamacare will not achieve the results claimed
Will young fans of big government like the cost of it?
Governing means either raising taxes or cutting programs
Welfare states can't be sustained with massive debt

Thomas Sowell

Democrats are trying to mislead the American people
Nobody knows what government will pull next
Politicians play Santa so insurers look like Scrooge
 'Public option' will soon become the only option left
Politicians pushed lenders to make risky home loans

George Will

School decline coincided with federal oversight
Liberals are just disappointed with the public
Fortunately, some justices protected it
Humans beings aren't the cause of every change