Happy West Virginia Day, happy Juneteenth, happy Father’s Day, welcome to the start of summer … it’s a lot to cram into one weekend. You’d think a column writer would be able to land on one topic, wouldn’t you? You would be wrong, about this writer, anyway. In fact, it’s tempting ...
Plastic is everywhere. Some uses are beneficial and unavoidable, like the specialty plastics that enable contact lenses and lightweight eyeglasses. Other uses are less beneficial but often seem almost equally unavoidable. Take grocery shopping as an example. Unless we milk our own cows, make ...
We have now passed the June 15 deadline marking the end of the application period for 100% funding of the Hope Scholarship program for the 2026-2027 school year. This year’s application closure is distinct from the rest because it is the first year of universal eligibility, meaning that every ...
MetroNews Talkline cohost T.J. Meadows has been quite up in arms lately about what he refers to as the progressive left or, as in one Facebook post from T.J., “Washington Liberals,” and their criticism of Elon Musk becoming the world’s first official trillionaire. He is just indignant ...
We are living in a time where attention has become the most valuable currency a human being possesses, yet it is also the most casually spent. It is given away in fragments through distraction, reaction, comparison, and emotional overload — often without awareness that anything of value is ...
I'm told a rolling pin is a good project for a beginning wood turner. Well, I'm not a beginner and it was among the hardest projects I have ever undertaken. I'll explain as I go along. First I prepared a blank of maple for the body of the rolling pin. I used the wood left over to make a ...