First of all, you must understand that the vast majority of educators at all levels do not have a clue as to what it is like working in the real world. Once they acquire 鈥渢enure,鈥� K-12 teachers and higher education professionals have a job for life unless they do something really stupid. ...
We know some politicians have essentially stopped pretending they aren鈥檛 working toward their own 鈥� very specific and exclusionary 鈥� 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 ...
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 ...
In the beginning of this week, we experienced one of the worst snowstorms and I鈥檓 sure for many it was the first time to see so much snow. Some called it snow catastrophe and I tell you why when you see 100 cars and trucks that lose control on the highway due to the snow and black ice, ...
Many of you know of me as the 鈥淕uitar Man鈥� who performs the marketing for a local pizza company on Division Street on the south side of Parkersburg. I recently have been blessed to have arrived at two more significant milestones. January 2026 is 17 years on the job and December marked 12 ...
With the retirement of former state Sen. Donna Boley, the question on the minds of many Mid-Ohio Valley residents was who might fill the empty seat. Gov. Patrick Morrisey has made an excellent choice in Del. Trenton Barnhart, R-Pleasants. Barnhart has worked alongside Boley long enough to ...
