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Life Through the Lens: If it costs nothing, it has no value

“And when the day comes that you have peace and love forced upon you, who knows, maybe in that last fleeting moment you might just realize you treasured your individuality.” *** Imagine a world at your fingertips. A world that will no longer differentiate between the learned and the ...

Reporter’s Notebook: Media literacy

I’ll be the first to say that I, as a reporter, am not perfect. No one is. I can sometimes make mistakes in stories, both grammatical and factual. I can sometimes read a bill or a study too quickly and miss something important. If I get something wrong, I work as quickly as I can to send up ...

Look Back: Memory lane

Popular Column of Newspaper ‘Do You Remember?’ Recalled Do you remember the popular column by the late E. E. Meredith headed, “Do You Remember?” that was a feature in a Parkersburg newspaper for a number of years? The following columns appeared in the mid-1930s. “Wonder if the ...

Editor’s Notes: Mandating one faith over others

We know some politicians have essentially stopped pretending they aren’t working toward their own — very specific and exclusionary — agendas in statehouses and in Washington, D.C. Still, it comes as a shock to realize the lack of self-awareness it takes to sponsor a bill that would ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: Earth’s greatest enemy, part two

In my previous Climate Corner column, I discussed “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” the explosive new documentary from journalist Abby Martin, which details the U.S. military’s role as the single worst institutional polluter on our planet. The film had its Columbus and Cleveland premieres last ...

Op-ed: This isn’t conservatism

For most of my adult life I have considered myself a conservative. I voted Republican because I believed in limited government, personal responsibility, and the idea that people should be left alone to build their lives without politicians micromanaging them. I still believe those things. What ...