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MOV Parent: Success is the key to everything

Here are some powerful words for your children!!! Mindset is everything. Teamwork Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is a success. It’s very important that the children can work well with others. Success is never an accident or a ...

Reporter’s Notebook: Lack of energy

I’ve said it before, but energy is going to be a huge issue heading into the 2026 legislative session in January. But walking around the Governor’s Energy Summit last Thursday, I didn’t get a sense of excitement. That was very clear during Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s remarks last Thursday ...

Look Back: Sticker shock

DAY BOOK OF 1822 – Relic of Good Old Days When Butter Was Six Cents Per Pound – And Eggs 4 Cents a Dozen – One Nutmeg, However, Cost You Ten Cents. The State Journal reporter had the privilege recently to inspect a relic of old times, doubly interesting in these days of a not-far-off ...

Monday Morning Quarterback: Ground game grounded

For a few moments Saturday it appeared that West Virginia was going to steal a win at Arizona State and achieve an unexpected third consecutive victory. With six minutes remaining the Mountaineers were on their own 10-yard line facing third-and-27. Looking to only gain a few yards field ...

Editor’s Notes: Making political assumptions

Just because something seems unethical, immoral, unnecessary, wasteful or just plain wrong, doesn’t mean it is illegal or against the rules. Further, just because a person disagrees with something — perhaps vehemently — does not mean someone else doesn’t have the legal right and/or ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: Gratitude, truth and a warming world

This time of year brings with it one of America’s most enduring stories — one we tell ourselves to feel better. The story of the “First Thanksgiving,” as many of us learned in school, is false in nearly every detail. The myth tells of colonists and Native Americans meeting peacefully ...