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Promise Made, Promise Kept: Ending the EV Mandate

Oftentimes in Washington, promises made go unkept, and priorities fall to the wayside as politics take over. I’m proud to have worked in tandem with my colleagues and President Trump to make good on a promise I made. On May 22, Congress struck down a key aspect of the Biden Administration’s nationwide EV mandate under the Congressional Review Act. This is a win for American consumers and protects Congress’s constitutional and statutory oversight authority over federal agencies and unelected bureaucratic overreach. How did we get here? More than 50 years ago, Congress allowed ...

Marshall Memo: An Emergency Drill; LifeSmarts; Concerts; and Celebrity Servers

An Emergency Drill will be held from 8 a.m. until noon June 4 at Moundsville Middle School. Marshall County Schools, Moundsville Middle School, and emergency responders from city, county, and state agencies are working collaboratively to prepare for potential emergencies at the school. As part of the process an operation-based emergency training will be held at the school. Participants will begin arriving around 7 a.m. for set-up and the event may look like a real emergency —but it is just for practice. The areas surrounding MMS may be congested with extra people on site during ...

Senate Seat Chase

Attention is already turning to the midterm elections next year, which will determine whether Republicans can continue to hold the majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. In West Virginia, that means that U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is up for reelection to a possible third six-year term after winning election to the seat held by former senator Jay Rockefeller in 2014. I say “possible,” because she is beginning to get challengers to her right and no elections are sure things. The latest person to throw their hat in the ring is freshman ...

March for Freedom Is Not Forgotten This Memorial Day

Sometimes on one of those late spring days when Memorial Day comes, you can almost see them, marching, marching onward, the legion of the forgotten dead. In the soft stillness and solitude of a country graveyard in the evening hush, occasionally you can hear the muffled beat of a drum as the endless ranks of that forgotten legion slip by, file after file, in ghostly procession never ending. They materialize, these war dead whom we honor Memorial Day, somehow, when the eye wanders idly across old grave markers to halt at a small obelisk with worn carvings making the words almost ...

In West Virginia, Public Health Should Not Be Optional

I applaud the Ohio Country Board of Education for their commitment to follow the law of the state of West Virginia in regards to vaccination exemptions for children entering public education. This is not a political issue, not a religious issue, nor even human rights issue. This is a public health issue! Vaccination mandates over the past decades brought a major decline in the number of cases of diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, and hepatitis B among children and adults across the state and the country. There have been medical exemptions ...

Marshall Memo: Relay For Life Set for May 30; Summer Food Programs; and Golf

Relay for Life of Marshall County will celebrate “40 Years of Impact” on Friday, May 30, at the John Marshall North Parking Lot. This event marks 40 years since Dr. Gordy Klatt, a colorectal surgeon from Tacoma, Washington, walked for 24 hours around a track to support his cancer patients, launching the Relay for Life initiative for the American Cancer Society. Locally, Relay for Life of Marshall County has contributed to finding cures and new treatments for over 20 years. The event begins at 6 p.m. with an opening ceremony, followed by a first lap for cancer survivors and a ...