If June’s incessant rain/steam and August-like temperatures have put you off going camping so far this season, bear with me for a minute. A story I saw several days ago reminded me that a good camping experience doesn’t have to mean traveling far enough away that the comforts of home are ...
Federal elected officials in the House, Senate and Oval Office have frequently stated that their energy policy is “all of the above,” meaning coal, oil, natural gas, wind, solar, nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal, and more. But what appears in the “Big, Beautiful Budget Bill,” which ...
Last Friday we all welcomed in the first day of summer along with all that summer and good weather brings. Now is the time for gardening, planning summer vacations, swimming, and many outdoor activities such as painting your house and more. Of course it also becomes a major problem when the ...
A few years ago, I did an interview for the University of Colorado student radio station. They wanted to know more about energy, especially gas and oil. In the middle of the interview, the host stops me and says, “Did you hear what he just said, dear friends?” I’m thinking, Now what! ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! I hope everyone has survived the sweltering heat of this week in late June. I noticed lots of hay being baled this week and backyard gardeners catching up on important work. There is time to make another planting of sweet corn and cucumbers, in ...
Thousands of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic descended on Marietta in May of 1903 to reflect on their service and honor those who had died in the Civil War. Decades after the north and the south reunited, veterans of the conflict were still gathering from time to time to ...
