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Life Through the Lens: Reality vs. Response

“Words are perception, and perception is reality.” The older I get, the more I ponder the significance of “reality.” There is an unrelenting black-cloud entitled “reality” that everyone cowers underneath. “Reality” is used to execute and excuse. It is wielded to redeem and ...

On Facebook various lawyers recently have been posting invitations to attend public seminars they are presenting on the topic of estate planning. Some years ago, when there was an earlier surge of these offerings, I attended several, to see what they were about. Normally, I heard exaggerated ...

High Points of the Valley

* Mid-Ohio Valley residents responded once again to the call for food and financial support for local food pantries — this time Old Man Rivers and the DAV Chapter 32 food pantries in Wood County. During Saturday’s Chick Crites Annual food drive hosted by the News and Sentinel in ...

Letter to the Editor: Beware secret socialists

The Democratic Socialists of America is the most radical anti-American party in U.S. history. They seek ending all deportations, reopening our borders, granting citizenship and voting rights to all illegals, making Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico states, giving the DSA four more Senate seats ...

Reporter's Notebook: Blood in the water

Politics is much like trying to swim with sharks. When there is blood in the water, the sharks get more aggressive. And I get the sense that Gov. Patrick Morrisey's potential 2028 GOP primary opponents for governor sense that he is vulnerable. Take the collapse of efforts to seek a federal ...