The Dominion Post

We love our little local newspaper. We really do. It just drives us mad at times.

Published by the Greer family (current progeny and publisher Mr David Raese), The Dominion Post (hereinafter TDP) is Morgantown's sole newspaper. Its coverage area often overlaps with newspapers in Wheeling, Fairmont and Clarksburg but given the strong sense of individuality and identity in West Virginia towns and communities a cover-the-state newspaper really doesn't exist and probably wouldn't work anyway.

As you might expect, West Virginia University and WVU Sports loom large in any issue of TDP. In a state dominated by Democrats for decades (except for the occasional Republican governor) the mining industries, public schools and state government in general are favorite - even incessant - topics for TDP. Local governments dithering over what coarseness of sand to buy for gritting the roads in wintertime is heady stuff for the newsroom types.

TDP's editorial positions tend to shift with the wind and are frequently tinged by a Dear Abby mawkishness. Some days they can't be bothered so an editorial reprinted verbatim (and credited) from another newspaper is substituted - just in case you were curious as to what the newspaper folk in Butte MT or Norman OK think about current events. One might expect these copy-n-paste jobs to appear OPPOSITE the editorial page but that masthead would look mighty lonely with empty column inches appearing above it.

There are dozens of aspects of TDP that amuse, infuriate and mystify but we'll leave those for future posts.