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Cracking the Code: Don't just coexist; thrive

Less than a week after Lynnda and I returned from Scotland, we were in the air heading to Influence, The National Speakers Association’s (NSA) annual convention in Austin, Texas. What a change. When we left Inverness Scotland, the temperature was 64 degrees. In Austin, the temperature was 99 ...

Letter to the Editor: Being an inspiration

Dancing has been a big part of my life for over 40 years. You probably remember that my husband, Charlie, and I used to teach line dancing and country couples. We also did a bit of ballroom dancing. I miss the old days when we had a lot of energy and could dance to several fast tunes in a ...

Letter to the Editor: Understanding socialism

On a recent, July 17, Fox News airing of Life, Liberty and Levin, pollster, and former Bill Clinton advisor Mark Penn stated that many of today’s American young people were supporting socialism, while decrying capitalism as an unfair system, without understanding what socialism ...

Editor's Notes: Skynet presents ‘Fahrenheit 451’

If you are the kind of person who cringes when you think about what happened to the Library of Alexandria, or watched Dr. Elsa Schneider cry while Nazis burned books in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” and thought “OK, she can’t be ALL bad,” you’re one of my people. It will ...

Health Care: Lawmakers are not addressing problems

Reports from data analysis finance websites such as WalletHub don’t often paint a pretty picture of West Virginia, but in its “Best and Worst States for Healthcare” 2026, there is one bright spot for the state — and it may come as a surprise. The Mountain State ranks 19th in the ...

The Backyard Gardener: Divide and conquer the iris


Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Cooler temperatures prevail this week as we say goodbye to July and hello to August. I want to send a big thank you to all the supporters of our 4-H and FFA livestock program here in Wood County. We had a successful week at the Wood County 4-H ...