It’s a shame it took until the 55th day of West Virginia’s 2025 regular legislative session — which lasts for 60 days — for a lawmaker to publicly acknowledge what many Mountaineers have been thinking this year: Exactly why are lawmakers focusing on issues that will do little to nothing ...
Hello, Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. After a warm and dry March, the weather has turned cold on us for a few days here in the second week of April. There is still time to prune fruit trees and plant some cool season vegetables. April 11 is Arbor Day here in West Virginia. It is marked ...
Ohio lawmakers have until the end of June to pass a budget. But already, members of the House of Representatives have adopted a version that ignores initiatives proposed by other lawmakers and Gov. Mike DeWine to help address the child care challenges faced by many Buckeye State ...
Across the Mid-Ohio Valley there are signs that others have valued their communities enough that they gave what they could to improve quality of life. In many cases, there are literal signs bearing the names of those who gave — money, buildings, land and other resources — to provide places ...
Several years ago I ran this article in my Legal-Ease column. Recently, a client told me that he had misplaced the article, which he had kept since it was first published. So, here it is again, well worth revisiting. I spend my workdays helping people to protect their life’s savings from the ...
Sam had just celebrated his 70th birthday and was thinking about how to avoid financial exploitation and retain control of his end of life matters. He felt he needed to make good choices soon. Those choices included who would provide appropriate support for medical and financial decisions ...