UP: To the celebration of Easter, as churches and other organizations throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley found ways to safely observe the holiest of Christian holidays yesterday. The weekend was filled with Easter egg hunts and other events to get us into the spirit of the season — a time of joy, ...
Here we are, the final week of the 2021 legislative session. Today is day 55 and lawmakers are prepared to power through until the gavel comes down at midnight Saturday, April 10. I feel somewhat redundant here, but once again all eyes are on House Bill 3300, the current vehicle being used to ...
Lawmakers know they have tough choices to make when it is time to cut spending. They are supposed to look for fraud, waste, incompetence, redundancy and all the items for which no one can explain why, when they are simply “the way it has always been.” Instead, state senators who approved a ...
I took the first step this week toward feeling more confident in an eventual return to whatever “normal” is going to look like. I got my first COVID-19 vaccine shot, and an appointment for my second in a few weeks. From the beginning, getting my place in line — filling out an online ...
We hear the talk about how politics makes for strange bedfellows. Maybe none stranger than the two of us now going all-in to support an income tax cut proposed by our former rival, Governor Jim Justice. But this really isn’t at all about politics. This is about West Virginia’s future. This ...
The Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action slogan, “save the grandchildren,” has special meaning to me and my commitment to climate action. I have only two grandchildren, both of whom are in college. The coronavirus pandemic had dealt them a very poor hand to enter the job market. In addition, to ...
Jackson County is improving, both in villages and farms; but not as rapidly as it ought to. We can see an improvement in Ravenswood where several houses have gone up and a new mill nearly completed. The splendid farms around it are being improved in a better manner than heretofore. Maj. Brown ...
Experience is a great teacher. The whole world has been through over a year of COVID and death, so what have we learned? I am a survivor and blessed beyond measure. I am alive and well and so is my family. I was blessed before the pandemic and I will now share why. I was born in another ...
Do the first two years of general education courses really teach one how to live a thoughtful, ethical and responsible life? Do the second two years of specific education guarantee a job in one’s chosen field? Neither question can be answered in the affirmative. Some college graduates are ...
After debating with one of my friends about letters to the editor, I realized that a letter should be written to the editor for her encouraging a broadened free speech platform in the editorial and opinion pages of The Parkersburg News and Sentinel. The paper has enhanced reader knowledge by ...
The News and Sentinel printed a letter to the editor on March 28 titled, “A constitutional explanation.” That letter was pure silliness from a writer who obviously has zero understanding of the U.S. Constitution. It completely distorted the meaning of Article VI Clause 2 of the ...
HAPPY EASTER!!! This week I had to give up my social activities and other things to prepare and concentrate on the family Easter dinner and get-together on Sunday. Easter celebration is a very important day for our family as it is for many Christians. Every year on Good Friday I always look ...
A mysterious spring that has the ability to heal and to give you what you wish for — but at a price — is at the heart of a chilling ghost story in “The Drowning Kind” by Jennifer McMahon. Jax has distanced herself a bit from her mentally ill sister and doesn’t pick up the phone for ...
I was in my local grocery store and saw something I had not seen in over a year, four cartons of disinfectant wipes in one spot! These were not the name brand. I went over to check it out. I assumed they were probably made in China. I assumed wrong. They were made in the U.S. and were cheaper ...
The American Rescue Plan Act established a $28.6 billion “Restaurant Revitalization Fund” to be administered through the Small Business Administration. The SBA is currently in the process of creating the grant funding website and has not released when the grant program will go live.* (*Just ...
For most people, the word “compromise” conjures images of meeting in the middle, taking good components from two ideas and blending them into a new idea that works well for as many people as possible. It appears as though the West Virginia state senate thinks of compromise as introducing a ...
Facebook and other social media giants have demonstrated rather handily they can control the content that appears on their platforms when they choose. It is absurd, then, for the likes of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to pretend they can do nothing about the continued use of their platforms to ...
Given the enormous sums of money promised by the federal government over the past year, it is understandable if our state’s municipalities are feeling over their heads when it comes to the millions upon millions headed their way. As part of the American Rescue Plan signed in March, $677 ...
State Sen. Rupie Phillips, R-Logan, may have thought he was scoring extra points with a little distraction when he told another media outlet “I think this is a very good chance for us to STAND OUR GROUND (emphasis ours) on our 2nd Amendment rights,” while discussing Senate Joint Resolution ...
DOWN: To West Virginia lawmakers who appear to have lost their minds in Charleston this year, focusing on backward-looking and unnecessary legislation that conveys an appallingly narrow-minded and exclusionary message about what West Virginians represent. Mountaineers are always free, remember? ...