The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia Editorials

Drug screening

2012-02-10T00:01:46-05:00

When it comes to coal mine safety issues, representatives of the United Mine Workers often are leading the way.

This is why

2012-02-09T00:05:00-05:00

Operation of Fayette schools
won’t return to local control
until there is some consensus

MSU

2012-02-08T00:02:02-05:00

Mountain State University is at a critical crossroads and southern West Virginians need to step up and show their support for the school and its hundreds of students and employees.

MSU

2012-02-08T00:01:27-05:00

Community needs to show its support for our university

If you don’t think so, you’d better think again

2012-02-07T00:05:00-05:00

EPA regulations turning the screw on coal industry

Airport projects crucial

2012-02-05T00:04:00-05:00

Tom Cochran and others at the Raleigh County Memorial Airport can breathe a little easier, or at least take a deep breath and exhale, after word came from Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s office last week that a deal has been struck between the two chambers in Congress to authorize long-term funding, into 2015, for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Thumbs — Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

2012-02-04T00:05:00-05:00

It’s not a choice

2012-02-03T00:02:39-05:00

Whether a bill to eliminate tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike when the current bonds expire some eight years from now is passed by the Legislature and signed into law or not, one thing is absolutely certain — the state Transportation Department has the responsibility to maintain that 88-mile stretch of Interstate highway.

On the shelf

2012-02-02T00:03:13-05:00

A Senate bill (SB168) offered by 13 of the upper chamber’s members that would have given counties the option to boost the pay of county commissioners, sheriffs, county and circuit clerks, assessors and prosecuting attorneys by at least $10,000 each has apparently been shelved and will do nothing but draw dust this legislative session.

The time is now

2012-02-01T00:02:00-05:00

Drug abuse.