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David McKinley Puts W.Va. First

Editor, News-Register: Hey West Virginians who used to live in the 1st Congressional District, you have a big election coming up and a lot depends on it. You now live in the 2nd District and the elected congressman in the new 2nd District will represent the Ohio Valley. It is going to be a competitive race with David McKinley facing off against current 2nd District Congressman Alex Mooney. My name is Tom Burgoyne and after a 33-year career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and eight ears as your Ohio County Sheriff, I think many of you know I am a registered Democrat and in ...

Is NATO Cause for Ukraine War?

Editor, News-Register: The war on Ukraine is a sad situation. We should be so thankful here in the U.S. that we have never had to endure this kind of persecution and displacement in our lifetimes. And even sadder is that this might never have had to happen. Unfortunately, many people in the U.S. seem to have the attitude that we can go about and do to the rest of the world as we please and they all should humbly bow to us as if we are God and master. The Russia/Ukraine situation is a prime example. Our current illustrious leader seems to have this lord-over-all mentality. Rather than ...

Learning About West Virginia

Editor, News-Register: Dear people of the great state of West Virginia, Hello, I am a third-grade student in Northern Virginia. Our class is learning about the United States, and I will be teaching our school about the state of West Virginia. In the month of May, I will create a display for our State Fair that I hope will make you proud. Although I have gathered facts about your state from books and websites, I think I can receive the best information from the people who live there. This is why I am writing to you. I am hoping that you would be willing to send me some items to help ...

What’s Wrong With Republicans

Editor, News-Register: How wonderful the Republicans are? Oh, how they acclaim accolades for their party as they piously preen about, full of themselves. Enough sarcasm, though. Let’s take a hard look at the Republicans: - Republicans committed a treasonous insurrection assault on the U.S. Capitol — our altar of democracy — where six people died and 140 were injured. - They deny Joe Biden trounced Trump in the 2020 election by over 7 million votes. - They brought over 60 bogus lawsuits trying to overturn the fair election and had their heads handed to them by a fair, ...

Punish Putin at the Gas Pump

Editor, News-Register: Remembering the horror and anguish I felt when that apartment building collapsed in Florida, killing hundreds under falling rubble, I feel avenging anger toward the psychopath commander of Russia’s army as he orders them to blow-up dozens of apartment buildings in Ukraine, every night. President Biden is now leading the world to block Russia’s largest source of income by stopping purchase of Russia’s oil. That raises the price of oil, but I’m willing to pay more for gasoline because it punishes Putin. We must assure, however, that those higher ...

Restoring the Cheat River’s Glory

Editor, News-Register: As a retired WVDNR fishery biologist who has worked, kayaked, and fished the entire Cheat River and most of its tributaries for over 50 years, the storyline of Sen. Joe Manchin’s recent op-ed in the Sunday News-Register on Feb. 19th rang true to my experience. The senator accurately describes the timeline of the West Virginia I know: once the proud furnace of the American economy, then forgotten and left to clean up the job site after the nation’s energy mix moved on. I am no stranger to that. The Cheat River was once a “dead” river due to extreme ...