I have practiced orthodontics in Wheeling for 45 years. I have sat across from parents who budget carefully for braces, cleanings, and routine dental care. I have watched families try to stretch insurance benefits that look much the same as they did nearly half a century ago. Now, we have ...
Extreme and more frequent flooding and related calamities (e.g. landslides and mudslides) are some of the most dire immediate impacts of the anthropogenic (human-caused) global climate crisis in Central Appalachia. The West Virginia Legislature and gubernatorial administration are not taking ...
Among my favorite lathe projects is a lamp. They’re not difficult, but I recommend proficiency in using a skew chisel. Turning a lamp is basically turning a spindle. I may incur the wrath of bowl turners, but I believe spindle turning requires a different skill set, and I’ll let it go at ...
“Preacher’s Hell,” and “The Last Ride of the Dirty Creek Gang,” by William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone. Publication date: Feb. 24, 2026. William W. Johnstone hasn’t let being dead stop him from cranking out books. The man was a juggernaut of the mass market paperback scene in ...
Last week, I wrote all about Valentine’s Day. I hope you ate a few good, fattening sweets to satisfy your palate, and hopefully you didn’t weigh yourself the next morning. When I eat something fattening, I don’t step on my old or new scales for two or three days, and you know why? ...
It is two weeks since we returned from Turkey. (In 2022 it became the Republic of Turkiye.) The first week back started slow with us adjusting to the 8-hour time change. Monday morning the first day back, Lynnda and I faced reality when we saw more seriously overweight people that morning here ...
