On Oct. 13 I spoke at the Belpre City Council meeting, bringing up issues with the city of Belpre buying the Badger Lumber Building. My purpose is to ensure that any actions taken by this council comply fully with Ohio Revised Code and protect the city from legal and financial risk. It is ...
As we sang “This Land is your land … for you and me.” I felt very proud of my country and was surrounded by many from Ohio and West Virginia as we assembled in Marietta, Ohio, on Oct. 18. We carried signs that expressed our thoughts and concerns about the authoritarian government in ...
Well meaning parents question the need to vaccinate their children and even to receive Covid vaccinations. Public health experts are concerned low vaccination rates may lead to reoccurring paralytic polio, which has no cure. Reoccurring polio is incomprehensible. I am a scientist and use ...
Just back from Geneva, Switzerland, for the United Nations 11th annual conference of state parties, Dudley Brown, the president of the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) sat through a representative of communist China attacking Americans for refusing to roll over and ratify the U.N. ...
There is something afoot in the Mid-Ohio Valley. People in Washington and Wood County are turning out for Democracy. Four members of Living Democracy: Engaging Citizens, a local citizens group, just finished teaching a four-week LIR (Learning in Retirement) class with 55 community members ...
I attended the local city council August meeting in Parkersburg. They passed (to go into effect in six months) an animal feeding ban in a local park. Several individuals (community caregivers) in that area have been feeding the stray and feral cats. The ban would result in these cats starving. ...
