Robert Schornstheimer climbed into the pilot seat of a Boeing 737 on April 28, 1988, unaware that his routine flight between the Hilo International Airport in Hawaii and Honolulu would end up being the number one news story in the world by the end of the day. The Marietta native and 1963 ...
Last week, I noted how shocked I was by the sheer amount of spending by political action committees and independent expenditure committees in statehouse races for this primary period. As I reported last week, just five groups had spent more than $1.6 million in a 30-day period between March ...
In the previous Look Back, an early Wood County dairy and the beginning of rules to protect the milk consumer were shared. The requirement of pasteurization in 1950 caused many small dairies to 鈥済et out鈥� or at least alter their business methods. The story that first appeared in the ...
I took a friend on a little adventure this weekend. I鈥檇 been promising her I鈥檇 find a restaurant that served food like what she was used to back home, and the opportunity finally presented itself. So we found ourselves in a traditional German beer tavern a couple of hours away from here ...
Last fall I received a phone call from someone in Parkersburg who reported that she witnessed brine waste (production waste from high-pressure hydraulic fracturing, i.e., fracking) being transported from railway freight cars in Parkersburg to trucks, which were taking the waste to the Deep ...
The entire judicial career of John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), has been dedicated to the undoing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Roberts鈥檚 personal vendetta against the legislation that codified an end to Jim Crow has now reached its zenith ...
