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Fix Mineral Rights Valuations

Editor, News-Register: Thanks to the Ohio County Commission for coordinating the Gas Royalty Meeting with the WV State Tax Dept held Feb. 16th, giving us a voice and allowing gas/oil lease holders to vent frustration regarding the outrageously flawed and unfair tax formula. How taxing us on estimations and projections totally disregards true evaluations. No consideration is given to low production, low product cost and capped wells. How can this practice be stopped? We’re aware legislators are not going to intervene. As a matter of fact, they are responsible for ...

Don’t Allow Vaccine Exemptions

Editor, News-Register: As a parent of two and an educator, I am troubled by the discussion surrounding SB 535, creating religious and philosophical exemption for school-required immunizations. West Virginia has one of the most effective school immunization policies in the nation. Over the last several years, four states (California, New York, Maine and Connecticut) have mirrored their school immunization requirements on ours after their states experienced outbreaks of measles that resulted in hospitalizations. This is not a partisan issue; this is a public health issue. These ...

Pass Income Tax Cut in W.Va.

Editor, News-Register: West Virginians have been left behind for too long when it comes to receiving the tax relief they deserve. Our status as one of the only two states that levy an income tax to not meaningfully reduce taxes since 2021 must change rapidly. It is time for policymakers to ensure citizens in the Mountain State are able to keep more of their hard-earned paychecks. The research on the myriad positive benefits of transformational cuts to the personal income tax clearly indicate that putting money back into the pockets of every West Virginia worker should be the ...

CROWN Act Not Right for City

Editor, News-Register: City Council member Dave Palmer stated that passing the CROWN Act will not impact our city. I beg to differ with him! We have lawyers on our city council. They of all people know the true impact of this type of city regulation. On this Tuesday, if they pass this, all employers and organizations in the city of Wheeling will be vulnerable to endless lawsuits! If someone that is not hired, loses their job, is restricted from any variety of things and has a different type of head dress or hair style, then all that they have to do is file a lawsuit. This ...

Expel Santos From U.S. House

Editor, News-Register: It appears that recently elected Republican Congressman George Santos, who has been chosen by voters to represent the Long Island district of New York, almost completely fabricated his personal and professional resume in order to curry voters’ support, to the extent of which unquestionably had never occurred previously in the history of our great nation. However, upon the recent aforementioned revelations, many elected officials as well as the public in general are now requesting that he resign or be systematically removed from office. Sadly, the biography ...

Tough Questions for Monforton

Editor, News-Register: Did you know that the Diocese of Steubenville has an “Official Diocesan Directory?” However, you won’t find the directory on the Diocese of Steubenville’s website, or in its newspaper, The Steubenville Register, or on its Facebook page. I found it on the Noble County Catholic Church’s website by Googling “nccchurches 45th edition Official Diocesan Directory.” There is information in the directory, historical and current, which would be of interest to the members of the diocese. Many dioceses around the country post their directory on their website ...