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Letter to the Editor: Vote down Issues 1 and 2

We see in the news all the atrocities committed by Hamas, the radical Muslim group inflicting great harm on Israel and whose goal is to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth. Stories about murders, kidnapping, the slaughter of innocent people, and more recently the murder of babies through ...

Letter to the Editor: Vote no on Issue1

Satan’s followers are extremely busy in their drive to exterminate even more of the most helpless innocents in Ohio. Abortion (slaughter) of unborn children, with no restrictions, even up to the moment of birth, is their main demand. A truly detestable sight is the TV ad, all over the ...

Letter to the Editor: Proposed ‘event center’ and historic City Park

Is it me, or has the intended use of the proposed Parkersburg “City Park” recreation center changed? Or has only the rhetoric of the project changed, not the scope, to push the project forward? What are your thoughts? The Parkersburg News and Sentinel article (March 29, 2023) states ...

Letter to the Editor: Stolen memories

Four of my friends have dementia or Alzheimer’s. I sadly watch as their lives are stolen from them one memory at a time. It starts by forgetting little things. Of course, we all forget things once in a while like there was something else I needed at the store, etc. Before long they each ...

Letter to the Editor: Is Trump really what we want?

I was born during the Eisenhower Administration. I grew up revering him and the others who helped destroy Hitler and his Nazis. American soldiers represented the height of patriotism and sacrifice for our country. Who would have guessed that in 2016 we would elect a commander-in-chief who ...

Letter to the Editor: But what do we cut?

Leave it to Rep. Alex Mooney to compose a long op-ed that complains but offers no solutions. It is one of his strongest capabilities. Mooney complains about “reckless spending” and needing to get budgets under control, even applying convoluted logic to tie spending to “woke leftist ...