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Opinion

Time To Decide Future of Suspension Bridge

Editorials

The Wheeling Suspension Bridge’s fate has quite literally hung in the balance for the past six years. Now, as the most significant renovation of downtown in decades draws to a close, it’s time for the bridge’s future to be revealed. Leaders in Charleston must make a clear, final ...

Showcasing the Best of Ohio County Schools

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: We had the absolute pleasure of attending a concert recently by the Ohio County Strings at the beautiful Wheeling Park High School Performing Arts Center. Our granddaughter played the viola with her sixth-grade classmates. We were amazed by the huge number of strings ...

Powering America’s Future From West Virginia

Local Columns

West Virginia has always been an energy state. From the coal that built our nation to the natural gas fueling the industries of tomorrow, our state has provided the reliable energy America needs to prosper. Today, we stand at another pivotal moment as FirstEnergy’s Mon Power and Potomac ...

Prioritize Infrastructure

Editorials

For years, city officials have lamented the deteriorating condition of the sidewalks along Wheeling Hill, where crumbling concrete have made the stretch along National Road unsafe for pedestrians. The problem is not new — it’s been studied, debated, and deferred for more than 20 years. But ...

President Trump Is the Nation’s ‘Great Divider’

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: As per usual, the “great divider” of our great nation, President Donald Trump continues to demagogue increasingly that all political violence is generated by left-leaning progressive Democrats when in reality, has been proven to be absolutely not true, based on all ...

Vote To Support Funding for Your Local Library

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: The Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County has a renewal levy on the Nov. 4 ballot. There is a group calling itself the Committee for Decent Libraries which is campaigning for the defeat of this levy because it does not approve of some books available to ...