You know the feeling of barreling headlong toward Christmas and thinking of all you have to get done combined with all you are looking forward to? As it always does, everything either gets done or wasn鈥檛 important to begin with. And though it may have been that you were looking forward to a ...
At a recent meeting of the Marietta Area Chamber of Commerce, I posed the following question to Brian Chavez, who represents the 30th Ohio Senate District and is chairman of the Ohio Senate Energy Committee: 鈥淲hat economic benefit does the injection-well industry (which pumps millions of ...
This week I saw Ryan, one of my former high school soccer players for the first time in years. Ryan played at the turn of the century on our first three teams to win regional championships and go to the West Virginia State Soccer Tournament. One of those teams played Morgantown High for the ...
Elected officials, including our inhumane President, take an oath to support 鈥淭he Constitution,鈥� and vow to carry out their duties to, 鈥淲e The People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union 鈥︹�� Unfortunately Wood County鈥檚 and Parkersburg鈥檚 dogmatic officials do ...
鈥淲hen someone asks for help, the answer shouldn鈥檛 be a stack of paperwork.鈥� That is true in most facets of our lives, but in this case, U.S. Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., is talking about addiction treatment 鈥� and rightfully so. Those ready and willing to seek help sometimes find ...
And finally it鈥檚 Christmas. A time for remembrance of happy Christmas past; for enjoying happy Christmas present; for anticipation of happy Christmas future. Many years ago, Francis Church of the New York Sun wrote a famous editorial in reply to a letter from an 8-year-old girl, Virginia ...
