Sarah Beth Terry delivers Monday’s Porch Paper Evening Edition, covering attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure, fuel prices above $100 a barrel, mounting artificial-intelligence fears, the court fight over mail-in ballots, President Trump’s proposed $5,000 payments, cryptocurrency regulation, John Brennan’s subpoena and an anxious week for interest rates and financial markets.

Closer to home, Sarah checks in on West Virginia healthcare, broadband, football and fall tourism; remembers legendary designer Bob Mackie; celebrates pop-tarts and The Golden Girls; and introduces Dash, a five-week-old kitten rescued from the interstate.

Along the way, she confronts a frustrating number on the scale and remembers the number where she started. Progress may jiggle. It may resemble a roller coaster, paint beneath your fingernails or simply  ...