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What other newspapers are saying: Time to close Guantanamo overdue

Since President George W. Bush opened the facility in 2002, at the height of the “ war on terror,” the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba has been associated with torture, isolation, indefinite detention and the denial of basic constitutional protections, including the right to counsel and a fair trial. Most detainees there have been terrorism suspects captured on battlefields in Afghanistan or Iraq, or whisked away on U.S. military aircraft during “extraordinary renditions.” Their treatment violated the Geneva Conventions and U.S. laws. And this was precisely ...

New apartments just a step in what region needs

We are happy to see the progress on the apartment building in the former YMCA building at Fourth and Elmira streets. The building, which long sat vacant, will soon offer 34 apartments, according to a report in Thursday’s Sun-Gazette. As we have editorialized before, our region’s future ...

Support our federal prison workers

The request is simple — and, we believe, worth fulfilling. Andrew Hill, Feliciano Dosman and Keith O’Neal recently visited the Sun-Gazette to discuss their concerns about staffing levels within federal prisons, the toll those deficiencies take on the hard-working corrections officers and their fears about the impact erosion of incentives to attract and retain staff may have on the problem going forward. The request is that the constituents of our federal lawmakers — U.S. Reps. Dan Meuser and Glenn Thompson and U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick — reach out to their ...

What other newspapers are saying: Russia’s dictator wins

Toward the end of his on-camera, Oval Office brawl with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, President Trump quipped that it was “great television.” He’s right about that. But the point of the meeting was supposed to be progress toward an honorable peace for Ukraine, and in the event the winner was Russia’s Vladimir Putin. “He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media on Friday afternoon after the exchange, while booting the Ukrainian president from the White House. “He can come back when he is ready for ...

Dissent and civility

A recent visit to a West Virginia University classroom offered some insight to a group of newspaper editors who were asked to speak to a group of journalism students. When posed with the question of where they get their news, most of the students responded, not surprisingly, from social ...

An editorial here several weeks ago focused on cancer’s link to alcohol and that doctors and researchers currently are studying gut health in their probe of cancer’s causes. “There’s no question we’re missing something” was the comment of a California gastrointestinal ...