Mountaineer Journal

07/11/2025

Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, first published in 1903, has the stripped-down intensity of a parable and the punch of a survival narrative. It is a story about a dog—Buck, half St. Bernard, half sheepdog—who is stolen from a genteel California estate and sold into the brutal world of Yuko...

29/10/2025

CHARLESTON — S&P Global Ratings has upgraded West Virginia’s credit outlook from stable to positive while affirming the state’s AA- rating on general obligation debt, citing strong fiscal management and consistent budget surpluses. “This positive rating action affirms my administration’s a...

28/10/2025

It begins in the cold, with a letter written amid the ice. And it ends, still cold, with a figure drifting into the darkness, consumed by grief and fury. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her name in 1823, is a novel born ...

27/10/2025

CHARLESTON — Del. Scot Heckert (R-Wood, 13), was one of only two Republicans to join Democrats in voting against House Bill 3342, known as the Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination Act, during the 2025 regular session of the Legislature. The bill, which passed with broad Republican support, prohibits...

23/10/2025

Victor Hugo did not write short books, and he certainly did not write small ones. Les Misérables, first published in 1862, is sprawling in every sense—a novel that spans decades, revolutions, ideologies, and an entire nation’s moral soul. To read it is not simply to follow a plot, but to be sub...

22/10/2025

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has filed notices of a federal tax lien against U.S. Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia, marking the latest in a series of financial troubles tied to the former governor, his family and their business network, according to a report by POLITICO. Documents ob...

17/10/2025

Moore Capito was sworn in by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank Volk after being confirmed by the Senate on October 7 in a 51-47 vote. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito was the deciding vote.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) voted to confirm her son, Moore Capito, as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, a position he officially assumed last week. Moore Capito was sworn in by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank Volk after being nominated by the...

15/10/2025

It begins with a conversation in a Moscow park—two men debating the existence of God. One is a poet, the other a literary bureaucrat. And the third? The Devil, of course. In Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, first published posthumously in 1967 after years of Soviet censorship, the De...

13/10/2025

CHARLESTON — GreenPower Motor Co. Inc. (NASDAQ: GP), a Canadian electric bus manufacturer with operations in West Virginia, completed a one-for-10 reverse stock split on Monday, Sept. 8, as part of an effort to maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing requirements. The reverse split reduced the num...

07/10/2025

There are some books that don’t simply respond to literature—they seek to revise it, to dismantle the foundations of what came before. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966, is one such novel. Billed as a “prequel” to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Rhys’s novel imagines the ...

02/10/2025

It begins in the off-season. London in winter, that strange, polite hush between the wars, where everything respectable seems just a little bit wrong. Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart, first published in 1938, is a novel of atmosphere and emotional undercurrents, in which the chill outside...

16/09/2025

“I think comparing Charlie Kirk to the Carlos Brown Jr. situation is an absurd analogy,” Sen. Maynard told Mountaineer Journal. “And very sad that Delegate Hamilton would even think they are similar. Charlie Kirk believed in his heart he was doing the right thing and would never advocate for any type of violence.”

WAYNE — State Sen. Mark Maynard (R-Wayne, 6) on Tuesday criticized Del. Anitra Hamilton’s (R-81) comments following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling her comparison to a recent stabbing case in North Carolina “absurd” and “very sad.” “I think comparing Ch...