Author: Donald Zeigler

Company meetings are often dreary, which can lead to minds wandering. It’s difficult to appear smart and attentive if your mind keeps going back to vacation planning, that cool gadget you saw on eBay, or pizza. Does that happen to you? Here, I’m happy to — [Read More]

Donald Trump’s rallies are basically like a well-rehearsed but stale circus sideshow. No matter where it pitches its tattered orange tent smelling of rancid popcorn and tired fried food, the act remains the same, night after night, city after city. Attend a Trump rally once — [Read More]

The outcome of Donald Trump’s Senate trial was never in doubt. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it plain from the beginning that his only interest was to get things over with as quickly as possible. His Republican colleagues eagerly acquiesced, fearful of blowback from — [Read More]

In what can best be described as an eyeroll reaction moment, Governor Jim Justice recently called for conservative rural Virginia counties who disliked the Commonwealth’s new Democratic leadership to secede and become a part of West Virginia. Liberty University President and evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr. — [Read More]

Another day, another column on page A-4 of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph moaning about how poor Donald Trump is being treated unfairly. Charles Owens apparently believes being “duly elected” immunizes a president from impeachment, even if his actions are blatantly unethical and illegal. Mr. Owens criticizes — [Read More]

Coal producer Murray Energy has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The nation’s largest privately held coal mining operation, Murray is merely the latest casualty of a changing energy landscape as consumers shift to cleaner and cheaper sources of power. Company founder Robert Murray has — [Read More]

I regularly peruse the official Facebook page for the Bluefield Daily Telegraph — partially because I prefer print news over broadcast, and partially to chuckle over some of the comments left behind by readers. While their posts don’t garner the number of responses seen on — [Read More]

It was a warm night in Charlotte, NC, on August 30. I was at the beautiful PNC Music Pavilion to enjoy a concert by 1970s rock icon Peter Frampton. I’d never seen him during his heyday, although like millions of others, I had played his — [Read More]

For nearly two centuries West Virginians watched as mining operations greedily chewed up millions of tons of earth to extract coal. They saw the coal shipped out of state to feed America’s industrial revolution. They watched the profits leave to fatten up far-away bank accounts. — [Read More]

Our planet is getting warmer. Average global temperatures have risen 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, with two-thirds of this warming having taken place since 1975. Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw. In large areas, the frozen ground that for thousands of years has insulated the permafrost far — [Read More]