Vlog

Breaking News

Reporter's Notebook: One is the loneliest number

As the old song says, one is the loneliest number. So, it must be pretty lonely for James Paul, the former executive director of the West Virginia Professional Charter School Board, being Gov. Patrick Morrisey's lone appointment to the state Board of Education. Morrisey named Paul as his ...

High Points of the Valley

* The Parkersburg Area Association of Realtors and Cornerstone Gospel Church stepped up in a big way when Wood County Schools needed to pause its Summer Feeding Program as a precaution in the early stages of the Peoples Cartage warehouse fire. They helped make brown bag lunches available at ...

Education: Cirino’s attempts at indoctrination will fail

One wonders whether Ohio Senate Finance Chairman Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, sees the irony in railing against an alleged liberal agenda and bias in education while simultaneously proclaiming “We have to change people’s minds and hearts,” with state-mandated “intellectual diversity” ...

Cracking the Code: Impressions of Scotland

It is 10:15 p.m. in Dornoch, Scotland. The sun is just setting. Temperature is a cool 58 degrees. Today’s high was in the 70s, with no rain for the first time since Lynnda and I arrived in Scotland. This is a pleasure trip, of golf and sightseeing with our daughter, Dannielle, and her ...

Editor's Notes: Tools for middle school teachers

Do you remember who you were in middle school? I do. Ish. I remember being thrilled to discover I had a talent for music and joining band and choir — taking it very seriously. I also remember (at about age 11, possibly 12) thinking it made sense to join the others in seeing how far I could ...