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Eliminating Safeguards Puts Animals at Risk

Editor, News-Register: The Marshall County Animal Shelter’s decision to eliminate essential safeguards — such as background and veterinary checks — puts animals at grave risk. This change was apparently made at the behest of Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS), a multimillion-dollar Utah-based group that pressures shelters nationwide to adopt reckless policies aimed at meeting arbitrary “no-kill” targets. In Indianapolis, a BFAS partner shelter fired two employees for trying to prevent convicted abusers from adopting animals. The facility had started conducting criminal ...

Thank You for Support of Steubenville-Jefferson County Library

Editor, News-Register: Thank you to those who took the time to vote yes for the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County’s 1-mill, five-year operating renewal levy once again. The Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County is a county-wide library system with branches in Adena, Brilliant, Dillonvale, two in Steubenville, Tiltonsville, Toronto and bookmobile service. We look forward to the opening of the Bergholz branch next year. Our mission is simple. A public library serves all people of all ages and all viewpoints. It is the library’s commitment to provide ...

Can We Stop Going in Circles Over the Homeless?

Editor, News-Register: Nobody wants to see anyone sleeping on the streets, nobody wants to live in an unhealthy or unsafe city, and we certainly don’t want to become the “Mecca of the Homeless” in the Ohio Valley, as one councilman has stated. Yet here we are again. Wheeling once again closed a homeless encampment, and the reaction is exactly what it has been in years’ past. People are angry, rallies are forming, Facebook comments sections are exploding with some of people’s worst thoughts, and emotions are pouring into the City Council chambers. At the Nov. 4 Council ...

What Is President Trump Doing in the Caribbean?

Editor, News-Register: Why has Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered our largest, most lethal aircraft carrier with supporting destroyers and guided missile ships to sail near Venezuela? Trump says it’s to stop drug traffickers, yet, at the same time, he released from prison the Honduran ex-president, who was convicted of massive cocaine trafficking into our country. The aircraft carrier was moved from the Eastern Mediterranean, near the Ukraine conflict. Trump seems to be abandoning our allies in Europe, giving Russia the opportunity to expand its war-stolen territory in ...

East Wing Demolition Is a True Loss for Our Nation

Editor, News-Register: As an historian, it was with a heavy heart that I watched the recent demolition of the East Wing of the White House. Built in 1902 by Teddy Roosevelt and remodeled under FDR in 1941, it became the working space for our First Ladies, who walked those floors and labored within those walls. Let us remember these grand women that contributed so much to our nation: Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, Melania ...

Donald Trump Un-Reality Show Rages On in Nation

Editor, News-Register: In October 2016, First Lady Michelle Obama’s stated “people who are incredibly strong lift others up. People who are powerful bring others together.” How prophetic and relevant at present with supreme egotist and most assuredly one of the greatest dividers our great nation has ever witnessed in government President Donald J. Trump refers to those who disagree with him politically, as the enemy within, whom he claims to hate. As it has been stated often times over the years that our democratic form of government which has long been the envy of the free ...