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Cracking the Code: Keeping the lights on

This week after doing a keynote speech in Cambridge, Ohio, Lynnda and I headed to Oglebay Lodge in Wheeling to attend West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s energy announcement by invitation. His remarks were similar to those made at the recent West Virginia Business Summit. Great leaders ...

Backyard Gardener: Taking care of your lawn during the fall months

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Unfortunately, we have hit a dry spell throughout the last six weeks here in the Valley. Hopefully we get some rain in the next few weeks as we near the end of the growing season. When you clean up the garden, it is a good idea to plant a cover ...

The Way I See It: Apple Watch can tell time and save your life

I must confess, I have been an Apple user for a long time, how long, 43 years long. I’ve burned through nearly 20 Macintoshes, a half dozen iPhones and one Apple Watch. The Apple Watch does many things, and some of them can actually save your life. It monitors a variety of things about ...

Sometimes I may sound like an enemy of the government Medicaid program which helps people pay for nursing home care. Actually, that’s not so. Medicaid, since its creation in the 1960s, has created “the best of times” for those who need long-term nursing home care. Without it, ...

Reporter’s Notebook: A good man

West Virginia is a small state, and state government is not large, so the longer you cover certain politicians, the more chances you have to see the human side of the people you cover and even become friends. That’s the way it was with Tim Armstead, the late justice of the West Virginia ...

Look Back: Belleville’s story continues

The early history of Belleville by Minnie Kendall Lowther, continues Another Colony Here In the spring of 1785, a party of hunters and trappers originally from Pennsylvania, who had been sojourning in the Wheeling vicinity, moved on to this section and took possession of an old abandoned ...