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Prioritize This Holiday Season

Editor, News-Register: As we enter into the holiday season, we see many addicts who wish to wait until after the holidays to seek treatment. They would like to spend time with their families and avoid missing yet another holiday. But what happens in most cases is they use more to get away from the harsh reality of their life that confronts them. They think there is no way out of the stresses of life and no way out of their addiction. The next thing they know, these anxieties push them to keep using, which could ultimately lead to an overdose and/or death. The realization that you ...

Recalling Days After Pearl Harbor

Editor, News-Register: Where was I on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 1941? I was playing at my rural home in Carroll County, blissfully unaware that all of our lives were soon to change very much. Mom and Pop and my brother and I heard the news, but it didn’t sink in very much until the next day at school. We attended a one-room schoolhouse known as Carroll County No. 5. Electricity had come to our area about a year earlier through the REA. I was a nearly-8-year-old third-grader — one of three in my class. The whole school was taken by our teacher (about 30 of us) to the house ...

Trump’s Confusion a Concern

Editor, News-Register: It has been reported that former President Donald J. Trump’s recent myriad of serious memory lapses, his now even more incoherent and seemingly unhinged verbal rants as well as his apparent uncontrollable behavior, both in and out of the courtroom, has led many professionals to conclude that Mr. Trump, quite possibly, appears to be exhibiting very troubling behavior, and that he may currently be experiencing the early stages of dementia — the dreaded disease that his father Fred Trump had contracted prior to his death in 1999. Mr. Trump’s most concerning ...

Where Did Common Sense Go?

Editor, News-Register: Many of our career politicians are ruining this country. They are so out of touch with the majority of our nation. This radical minority wants to change the way we think, talk, what words are acceptable to use, how to raise children, what gender children should be, and more. Where did common sense go? We have to stop being so biased that we close our eyes to what a mess this country is in. Leave Donald Trump out of this. He did not create this mess, Joe Biden did. Thousands of people are pouring into our country along with the cartel’s drugs. Mobs are ...

It’s Past Time for Manchin To Go

Editor, News-Register: Joe Manchin. What a hypocrite. Preach about the need to rein in spending and then bragging about a $50 million grant to some business. All you people in Congress are the same, talk out of both sides of your mouth. How many of these grants have you bragged about, Sen. Manchin? Some people are sorry to see you go. I say goodbye. Donald Britt Wheeling

Farm Bill Would Help Food Banks

Editor, News-Register: Food banks are facing a food crisis. A majority of the more than 200 food banks in the Feeding America network serving every county in the country, which Mountaineer Food Bank is part of, report steady or increased demand for food since June 2021. This food crisis looms at the confluence of decreasing donations and continued rising food prices that strain the Feeding America network’s ability to serve families across the U.S. The stark reality is Mountaineer Food Bank may not have the resources to serve all of the people in the 48 West Virginia counties who ...