A clip from Aaron Sorkin's "The West Wing" came to mind last week. C.J. Cregg, the press secretary for fictional President Josiah Bartlet, confronts reporter Danny Concannon, who is writing a story after obtaining a document laying out the president's first-term fails. Cregg is not happy ...
I had the pleasure this week of talking to Edison Middle School eighth-graders as part of a career fair that made me wish that sort of thing had been available when I was in middle school a very long time ago. Who am I kidding? I’ve been a newspaper person since I was a toddler. Which means ...
Fall is my favorite time of the year. College football, a chill in the air. Leaves changing colors. Halloween, deer hunting and, every other year, politicians trying to convince you they deserve your vote. And of course, they rarely do. This year, for instance, Republicans are panicking ...
I have been attending Parkersburg City Council meetings regularly for about two years. During this time I have taken the opportunity to address the council many times. Sometimes it was to ask questions, other times it was to make suggestions. There are usually around 10 citizens who also take ...
A note on Sept. 13 explained aspects of socialism. It alluded to a piece about politicized socialistic myths in the News and Sentinel Aug. 23. The writer inferred a relationship to the Gilded Age. This column will describe the Gilded Age that Trump wants to return us to, and why we should not ...
Republicans don’t have much going for them this year. All they can brag about is the Big Beautiful Bill, which is mostly a tax giveaway for the rich that is exploding the national debt. When they’ve got nothing else to run on, politicians tend to attach labels to their opponents, labels ...
