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Hoping for a Chance To Choose

Editor, News-Register: Thousands of West Virginia families who dream of enrolling their children in schools that best suit their children’s distinct learning needs have had their hopes dashed by big-city lawyers from Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, and Alabama. These out-of-state strangers are using a few local residents to try to block all West Virginia children’s access to Hope Scholarships. Hope Scholarships enable and empower parental choice when it comes to educating their children, and this lawsuit is in direct contrast to our West Virginia way — ...

The Real War Is At Our Doorstep

Editor, News-Register: Dr. Svitlana Krakovska, a Ukrainian climate scientist and member of the International Panel on Climate Change, recently said, “Human induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots, fossil fuels, and our dependence on them.” Europe’s dependence on fossil fuels from Russia is “funding the war” in Ukraine. Russia, the second largest producer of natural gas, has been accused of using the resource in a geopolitical way against European countries dependent on its gas. Europe views the worsening situation in Ukraine as justification to ...

Presenting One Side of the Facts

Editor, News-Register: I have noticed that Mr. Bill Bryant of St. Clairsville and that (Richard) Hord from Martins Ferry are still constantly writing letters to the editor of this newspaper hoping to get published. I would like to reply and respond to these letters that they have written. But unfortunately I can’t do that. That is because I have to admit that I did not read any of them. I always look at the authors of letters before I read them and if it says their names then I don’t waste my time reading them. And because I haven’t read them it would make any response or ...

Turfing Baseball Field Tone Deaf

Editor, News-Register: This newspaper this past week published a story about the administration of Ohio County Schools recommending a project to the Board of Education to turf the existing baseball field at Wheeling Park High School and add lights for an estimated cost of about $1.6 million dollars. You read that right- $1,600,000. Keep in mind, this is not to build a baseball field where one does not exist. A beautiful, recently upgraded, all grass baseball field sits proudly on top of the hill. The baseball complex already is one of the finest facilities in the state. There is ...

‘Narcan Approach’ Is a Disaster

Editor, News-Register: I’m not sure who said it first, but former Dallas Cowboy quarterback and ABC announcer, the late Don Meredith, made the quote famous. “If all the “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry, Merry Christmas.” This saying can be used after almost every competitive athletic event on any level. For the month of March in high school and college basketball, it has been and will be repeated often. Obviously in a more “life and death” scenario, it may be used in a political sense. Even though both political parties agreed at the ...

Approach To Pandemic Lacking

Editor, News-Register: With the devastating two-year surge of the COVID-19 pandemic appearing to have seen significant improvement of late, at least for the time being, it is quite noteworthy and troubling that it has been repeated that since the coronavirus vaccine became available to all Americans on July 1, 2021, that the 14 states in our great nation with the highest deaths rates — not coincidentally, all have Republican governors, with West Virginia leading the way with 199 deaths per 100,000, followed by Wyoming with 172 deaths per 100,000, and Florida with 153 deaths per ...