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Solution to Rising COVID Cases

Editor, News-Register: Covid cases are increasing at an alarming rate, yet more than 95% (of cases) are unvaccinated people. Nearly all of the recent Covid deaths were unvaccinated. Nevertheless, anti-vaxxers insist on not getting jabbed. They howl about their freedom, unconcerned that they are spreading disease to others. Government agencies are considering compelling the wearing of masks, and even forcing vaccinations, in order to stem this Covid onslaught which might produce even more virulent variants. If enacted, anti-vaxxers will howl even louder. But there is an easier ...

Join Local Fight Against Cancer

Editor, News-Register: Beating our biggest rival takes more than breakthrough research. It takes things like out 24/7 cancer help line and free rides to chemo. By joining the Relay For Life movement in our community, we can all help the American Cancer Society attack cancer from every angle. Founded by Dr. Gordy Klatt in Washington in 1985, the Relay For Life movement unites communities across the globe to celebrate people who have been touched by cancer, remember loved ones lost, and take action for lifesaving change. Symbolizing the battle waged around the clock by those facing ...

Reinvigorate Community Days

Editor, News-Register: My wife and I, as we do every year, recently attended the Follansbee Community Days festival. The live music was very enjoyable, and the closing fireworks display remains one of the best in the Valley, as far as we’re concerned. Their fireworks are always a highlight of our summer. However … I’ve lived in Weirton since 1991, long enough to remember what I’ll call the “Community Days of Yore,” held on Virginia Avenue. Remember? Back when vendors stretched the length of the street for several blocks. Thousands of people crowded into the narrow ...

Exercise Your Freedom to Vote

Editor, News-Register: The exception does not make the rule. It’s about 6:30 on a cool July morning. I’ve been sitting on my porch since about 3:30 troubled and not able to sleep. I’m writing after having spent that time reading my Bible and praying and ruminating. Forty-nine years ago today I was on a U.S. Navy destroyer off the coast of Vietnam. My specific duty at the time was as the trigger man for our ship’s guns. We shot thousands of rounds inland and in return were fired upon multiple times. It was very hot. On 25 August 1969, I went to boot camp. I was ...

Develop Wind and Solar in W.Va.

Editor, News-Register: I read the article in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel for July 13, 2021 where Representative McKinley was in Parkersburg talking about carbon capture and the need to invest in it instead of eliminating coal and gas powered generation of our electricity. From the scorching heat, the wildfires, floods, it is apparent that we are in a climate crisis. The Representative said it would take 4,250 windmills to produce 3,000 megawatts of energy. He said he didn’t think West Virginia wanted to give up the amount of land needed for that many windmills (850 square ...

Focusing on What’s Important

Editor, News-Register: Japan stopped at Pearl Harbor for one reason and one reason only, there were 100 million patriots at home with weapons to protect this country. We were a strong proud country no matter what we disagreed on. We have gotten through slavery, depressions, wars, assassinations, the sixties, 911, and so on. And I believe we always saw our flaws, and corrected them, and made us a better place to call home. We had factories, that in a blink of an eye could build the strongest military weapons in the world, with our own steel! The flag was something that ALL ...