The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is up for a vote soon in the U.S. Senate, having already passed in the House. This legislation would require voters to present documentation proving their U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote. While that may sound like a common sense ...
Extreme and more frequent flooding and related calamities (e.g. landslides and mudslides) are some of the most dire immediate impacts of the anthropogenic (human-caused) global climate crisis in Central Appalachia. The West Virginia Legislature and gubernatorial administration are not taking ...
It is two weeks since we returned from Turkey. (In 2022 it became the Republic of Turkiye.) The first week back started slow with us adjusting to the 8-hour time change. Monday morning the first day back, Lynnda and I faced reality when we saw more seriously overweight people that morning here ...
I have practiced orthodontics in Wheeling for 45 years. I have sat across from parents who budget carefully for braces, cleanings, and routine dental care. I have watched families try to stretch insurance benefits that look much the same as they did nearly half a century ago. Now, we have ...
I had a long conversation the other night with a friend who had decided to break ALL the rules about polite conversation. We were hitting religion and politics in a way that would definitely be avoided at Thanksgiving dinner. But this is a person with whom — particularly if I realize my ...
Last week, I wrote all about Valentine’s Day. I hope you ate a few good, fattening sweets to satisfy your palate, and hopefully you didn’t weigh yourself the next morning. When I eat something fattening, I don’t step on my old or new scales for two or three days, and you know why? ...
