Anyone who walks or drives around Cumberland sees plenty of American flags displayed on homes, in addition to the Stars and Stripes found at post offices and other public buildings and even in rows atop poles along city streets. It’s not uncommon to see them rippling on passing motorcycles a…

Each week the Times-News editorial page features this Hits and Misses column. It is a look at the positive and negative news or events over the past week. Readers are invited to send their suggestions.

Though most mines have closed and consumption is a fraction of what it was in the past, Western Maryland is still considered coal country. The mascot for Mountain Ridge High School is a miner for a reason.

Infectious disease specialists and other health care professionals agree that testing people to determine if they have COVID-19 is crucial to stopping the spread of the dreaded illness. Folks who know they’re infected can stay home and keep it to themselves.

The following editorial from The Register-Herald of Beckley, West Virginia, appears here in abbreviated form.

Father’s Day — which is Sunday — is the perfect time to show appreciation for male parents and all they do for their families. It’s a day for dads.

Sometimes, we as journalists adopt terms that could fall into the category of bureaucratese, defined as “a style of language held to be characteristic of bureaucrats and marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms and circumlocutions.”

The following editorial on removing Confederate statues, provided through The Associated Press, appears in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The following editorial appears in The Register-Herald of Beckley, W.Va. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Times-News.

The following editorial, made available by The Associated Press, appears in The Miami Herald on the killing of George Floyd, subsequent protests and racism in the United States.

Each week the Times-News editorial page features this Hits and Misses column. It is a look at the positive and negative news or events over the past week. Readers are invited to send their suggestions.

The anger and protests that follow the death under questionable circumstances of African-Americans in the custody of white police officers or at the hands of white civilians are understandable and a justifiable demonstration of the American freedom to demand fairness and justice.

Most of us frequently get unsolicited credit card applications in the mail and, if we have our wits about us promptly throw them out.