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Red Tape: Permitting reform effort must continue

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 ...

Safety: Talk to your children about online interactions

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 ...

Christmas: Shop With a Cop brings happiness

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 ...

High Points of the Valley

* 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,” ...

Opportunities: Second Chance deserves to pass

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 ...

Elder Abuse: Strong protections could still be improved

It’s easy to pick out areas in which we wish West Virginia and Ohio were doing better for residents. The list is long and varied. But in one category, both states are doing quite well. In WalletHub’s list of “States With the Best Elder-Abuse Protections,” the Buckeye State is 4th in ...