Two Baptist ministers spent $124,000 attacking each other for a job that pays $20,000 a year. The math tells the story. The scripture tells the truth.
Epigenetics has confirmed what scripture always implied: trauma is inherited, written into DNA before a child draws their first breath. The question is whether we are rescued from that loop — or resurrected through it.
News was never free. Not really. It was subsidized, regulated, edited, reviewed, and walled off from the interests paying for it. Over the last century, those walls were dismantled one trumpet blow at a time — until advertising, influence, and journalism became almost indistinguishable.
West Virginia has no breeder accountability law. The Dalmatians surrendered in Greenbrier County this February are what the absence of policy looks like in practice.
A century of Appalachian policy, from both parties, tells a consistent story: the mountains are a resource. The people who live in them are not.
A dog killed on the Greenbrier River Trail. Puppies in a box on a highway shoulder. A humane society that needs $500,000 to do its job and receives $200,000. West Virginia can do better — and a 2026 bond initiative is where to start.