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To All Those Who Walked for Jerry

Editor, News-Register: On Sunday, April 27, 2025, Jerry’s Walk — Illuminating Suicide Awareness held its ninth annual suicide prevention Walk in St. Clairsville. The event is an opportunity to encourage an open conversation around suicide with a goal of removing the stigma attached to what is truly a public health crisis. That stigma results in silence that tragically causes so many who are suffering to avoid seeking the help they need and deserve. The Walk also allows those that have survived a loss to suicide to come together and offer each other support. Jerry’s Walk wishes ...

A Real Pickle With Courts in Wheeling

Editor, News-Register: Four months ago, The Intelligencer reported that Wheeling City Council awarded a contract for $71,000 to fund eight “new” pickleball courts at the Patterson Sports Complex. Councilman (Dave) Palmer told reporter Eric Ayers at the time that the courts “should be completed and ready this coming spring” to “welcome pickleball players from outside the area for tournament play.” It’s now May and as of this writing, zero work has commenced. As a longtime player who considers Patterson my home court, I was initially hopeful about the project. But the ...

Federal Cuts Will Only Hurt W.Va.

Editor, News-Register: I worry about the indiscriminate cuts the Trump Administration is making to our federal workforce and what it will to our state and city. It is true that this country has to trim our trillions of dollars in national debt. Yet a multi-trillion dollar tax cut, which will add more trillions to the debt, does not seem the smart way to go. And nickle-and-diming programs without a comprehensive, sensible plan will not get the job done. Yet these smaller programs, such as PBS, NPR, the West Virginia Humanities, libraries and museums, Americorps, Headstart and ...

Protecting Arts, Culture in Our Mountain State

Editor, News-Register: The Board of Directors of the West Virginia Humanities Council, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, was recently notified by the federal Department of Government Efficiency that support to our Council from the National Endowment for the Humanities was being terminated. This abrupt termination of long-established and congressionally appropriated NEH funding support for the Council, which serves as the NEH’s official affiliate in and for the Mountain State, if sustained, will cause the closure of all Council activities within West Virginia. The financial ...

Federal Cuts Undermine the Fight With Cancer

Editor, News-Register: As someone who was a caregiver to her husband and daughter when they battled cancer, I’m calling on Senators Capito and Justice to help America continue our progress in the fight against cancer by voting “No!” on harmful cuts to Medicaid. In recent years, we have made huge strides in the fight against cancer, improving our understanding of what causes cancer, developing better screening tools to catch cancer earlier, and researching breakthroughs into new treatments. These incredible achievements have culminated in a promising increase in the overall ...

Trump Has Evaded Justice

Editor, News-Register: More than 1,000 riotous insurrectionists tried to stop Congress from certifying the president’s election on Jan. 6, 2021. Each rioter received a due process fair trial under the law, in which valid evidence was presented, and each had the opportunity to defend themselves. Each convicted rioter was judged guilty by a jury of peers. Only the ringleader of the anti-democracy rebellion, the leader who told them to “fight like hell,” escaped trial and conviction. His lawyers masterfully played every “due process” trick in the book. Then, on Jan. 20, ...