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Police Week: Show appreciation for law enforcement

Ahead of this National Police Week, law enforcement officers from across the Mid-Ohio Valley traveled through our communities as part of Operation Blue Sky. It was a recognition of officers serving now AND those who have sacrificed their lives while protecting the rest of us. It is a local ...

High Points of the Valley

* During last week’s celebration of National Nurses Week, WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center honored its nursing and clinical teams. “We also celebrate the influences nurses have on the healthcare industry,” said Camden Clark President and CEO Sean Smith. “You are so impactful ...

Broadband: Delegation must keep applying pressure

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Kelly Workman, director of West Virginia’s Office of Broadband, are right to keep up the pressure on federal officials over the pace of their review of grant funding for high-speed broadband. “As we have discussed, I am concerned that West ...

Speak Up: Airport Authority wants your input

Next week there is an opportunity to shape the discussion about the future of service out of the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport. The airport authority will be talking about pitches made by Air Wisconsin, Breeze Airways, Contour Airlines, Denver Air Connection and SkyWest, and they want to ...

Revenue: Cautious approach to spending is needed

How many of us had a good idea how much we would be receiving with our tax refunds, and had already mentally spent that money before it arrived? We can’t blame state government for being in the same boat, as an “April surprise” arrived in the form of the largest single month of tax ...

Fraud: Learn what you can to protect yourself

As technology has evolved and criminals have an easier time accessing not only our information, but us, it has become much more important to learn how to protect ourselves against financial fraud. That can be easier said than done, particularly for those who are thrown off kilter by the fast ...