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Don’t Miss Out on Disaster Aid

Since representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Small Business Administration arrived last month to help those affected by the June 14 flash floods in Ohio County, flood victims have been able to access multiple avenues for aid — and the federal organizations have kept coming up with more. The most recent was $770 in Serious Needs Assistance, a new offering from FEMA which had not been approved for Ohio and Marion counties until recently. “It’s for anything people might have needed after the disaster,” FEMA spokesperson Kim Fuller said. “If they had ...

Gee Continues To Serve

Ohio State University isn’t letting its former President E. Gordon Gee rest for long, after his departure as president of West Virginia University. They’ve asked him to return to Columbus for a one-year consulting role. According to a report by The Columbus Dispatch, that role will include working with OSU’s new Salmon P. Chase Center to recruit faculty and increase the center’s presence on campus and nationally. Chase was Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of the treasury and later the sixth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving in that role until his death in 1873. ...

Keep Up the Fight Against Opioid Scourge

As West Virginians have waded through the battle against the substance abuse epidemic over the past several years, it has become clear there is fault to find at many levels — from “legal” drug dealers masquerading as doctors to pharmaceutical industry giants. That is, of course, in addition to the illegal drug operations that realized what was happening and seized the moment. As state attorney general, Gov. Patrick Morrisey did an excellent job battling companies such as Johnson and Johnson, CVS and Kroger — to name a few — in an effort that has yielded hundreds upon hundreds ...

Cochran a Treasure of Marshall County

It was obvious the late Jim Cochran cared for his home community of Marshall County. It showed in the care he took over a career of chronicling its comings and goings for The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register that spanned more than 70 years. Cochran made telling the stories that needed told in Marshall County his life’s work, from his decades stationed at the Journal office in Moundsville to the years after his retirement from full-time work spent authoring the “Marshall Memo,” a weekly column dedicated to the news of Marshall County. He always tried his hardest to reach ...

Helping Ohio’s Students

It turns out state officials are, indeed, working toward bringing more supports to public school students who are already thinking about life after high school graduation. Last week, Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce announced $7.1 million for the Career Pathway Support Networks Request for Applications. The money is part of a two-year effort to prepare students for in-demand careers through “advising, mentoring, exposure to various professions, and expanded career-technical education,” according to DeWine’s office. Funding will be distributed ...

Care Facilities’ Buyer Must Keep Promises

After what appears to have been a long process, the West Virginia Department of Health Facilities seems to have found success in selling some of its long-term care facilities for seniors. New York-based Marx Development Group plans to buy Hopemont Hospital in Preston County, Jackie Withrow Hospital in Raleigh County, John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center in Marion County, and Lakin Hospital in Mason County. Though the planned purchase price of $60 million may sound a bit low for four long-term care facilities, the cost savings to the state is expected to more than make up for it. The ...