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Monday Watercooler: Lieberman keeps up the DADT fight

James Withers — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:38:29 +0000

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal on life support. Last week, the U.S. Senate hid behind process instead of taking a stand for principle. The defense authorization bill, attached with a “Don’t Ask,(...)

Gamer suspended over name of W.Va. town: Fort Gay

Jennifer Vanasco — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:00:03 +0000

(Morgantown, W. Va.) Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming(...)

Withers: Notes on a march

James Withers — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:08:50 +0000

I could bore you with economic tales of woe and how I barely made it to Washington, DC and back, but does anyone care a whit about Withers’ finances? Despite my lack of Tweets–attempted but my(...)

Boy harassed at 4-H summer camp for being gay

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:00:34 +0000

(W. Va.) A mother from Jackson County, West Virginia, filed a police report after her 15-year-old son was harassed for an hour and a half at a summer 4-H camp because he is gay.

“He was(...)

Withers: 10 random thoughts

James Withers — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:08:48 +0000

I’ve been searching for hours to find something to ruminate about, and nothing is coming to me. So here is a list of 10 unrelated thoughts, some serious others not so much. This could be a(...)

West Virginia rejects anti-gay amendment

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:23:51 +0000

(Charleston, West Virginia) A bid to advance an amendment to West Virginia’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage has failed.

Republicans and social conservatives had pushed the amendment, but(...)

Anti-gay group accused of ‘intimidating’ lawmakers

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:41:49 +0000

A conservative Christian group opposing an LGBT equality bill and pressing for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage has been accused of trying to intimidate two West Virginia lawmakers.

Lesbian couple appeals order removing their foster child

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:39:12 +0000

The West Virginia Supreme Court was asked Wednesday to overturn a lower court ruling that removed a child they had reared from birth because the judge wanted the child placed with a married, opposite-sex couple.

Withers: Tarheel state comes out against something that isn’t happening

James Withers — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:45:47 +0000

I love my southern sistern and brethren. Hard not to really. They produced Faulkner, O’Connor, Armstrong, Young, red beans and rice, peach cobbler (mmmmmm), and barbecue. Michael Jordan,(...)

Withers: Straight hysteria hits Atlanta

James Withers — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:17:38 +0000

Maybe the stinky economy is drying up logic cells. Could be people are reeling from Alez Rodriguez’s steroid use confession. Possibly the Nadya Suleman drama is making a few of us nutty.(...)