“This is why people hate Washington.” Outgoing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, had good reason to speak his mind this week when lawmakers dropped the ball on the Railway Safety Act. Inspired by the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine on Feb. 3, 2023, the act would have enhanced ...
Politicians in Washington, D.C., certainly love their red tape. Despite the damage such bureaucratic bungling does to their constituents, they just can’t give it up. It should not have come as a surprise, then, when they jettisoned much-needed permitting reform late Monday. “It’s a ...
For many young people this Christmas, the gifts under the tree will include a tech gadget or two — maybe a new phone, maybe a new video game system. Some of them may rush up to their rooms and immediately get connected to the internet, social media or others playing the same video game half ...
Despite what we learn every now and then about some bad actors in police departments, we know our Mid-Ohio Valley officers do an excellent job serving, protecting — and bringing a little extra Christmas joy to those who need it most. Over the weekend, officers from the Vienna, Williamstown ...
* Pieces of Mid-Ohio Valley history will be now be on display as part of an outdoor exhibit at the Capitol complex in Charleston — West Virginia: Nature Designs a State That Fuels a Nation. “We’re proud to donate the engine, along with a number of other items, including a yellow dog,” ...
A day before President Joe Biden announced the largest act of clemency in one day in modern presidential history, Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Cory Booker, D-N.J., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., celebrated the earlier passage of their Second Chance Reauthorization Act ...
