Miners healthcare gets a ‘permanent solution’
Since the continuing resolution passed in December with only a four-month “fix” for miners healthcare, I have continued the fight to get a permanent solution. That is why the first bill I re-introduced...
View ArticleLooking for streams of gold
The prize of any trout fisherman’s stringer is the mystic golden trout. There is a lot more to the story of the golden trout than most people realize, especially here in West Virginia. The bright...
View ArticleBroadband key to economic growth
The fate of rural America is the focus of much national attention today. Yet, many across West Virginia have been feeling the very real effects of this debate for some time. Our communities have been...
View ArticlePainkiller alternatives may reduce risk of prescription opioid abuse
Opioid abuse is devastating our state, and too often it starts with something as seemingly harmless as the prescription of an opioid-based pain medication. Powerful painkillers, such as oxycodone or...
View ArticleBetter watch where you step
With the mild winter and the early heat waves of spring so far, the creepy crawly things that live out and about in the fields and hollows of the mountain state are already out in full force. If you...
View ArticlePainkiller alternatives may reduce risk of prescription opioid abuse
Opioid abuse is devastating our state, and too often it starts with something as seemingly harmless as the prescription of an opioid-based pain medication. Powerful painkillers, such as oxycodone or...
View ArticleHere’s to the ones who got away
The West Virginia Spring Gobbler Season has just finished up and it was a great year for gobbler hunters all over the state. Years ago, it would take several weeks or even months before the harvest...
View ArticleMaking Memorial Day personal
Memorial Day is a day of remembrance. Memorial Day is a day of appreciation for sacrifice. Memorial Day is a day of profound thanks. To truly feel and appreciate the sacrifice of Memorial Day, we need...
View ArticleIt’s that time of year
It is the time of year when the mountains are a lush and wondrous salad bar of green leafy delicacies of every size, shape and flavor. A time when Mother Nature provides plentiful food for all those...
View ArticleBass aren’t the only summer time fish
The sun has been hot and the weather has been dry for a while and those summer water temperatures are starting to heat up. When anglers start thinking about fishing in the summer heat the first fish...
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