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Letters to the Editor

Repair the Streets

Editor, News-Register: How will the city scrapers work on the chopped-up streets of Market and Main in downtown Wheeling? While snow builds up the route of Market and Main from 10th Street to 16th Street in the downtown area, it becomes a dangerous situation. It won’t be the city street ...

Freedom Isn’t Free

Editor, News-Register: As a nearly 50-year Democrat, I am ashamed of what the Democrat Party has become. It used to be the party for the middle class and minorities, but has evolved into a left-wing arrogant elitist mindset. What has the Democrat Party done since President Trump was ...

Focus on the Nation

President Donald J. Trump’s recent State of the Union address, that was held before a joint session of Congress, was an unabashed personally self-aggrandizing public spectacle by our “reality show” con-man president, making the national event to appear more like a Trump campaign rally ...

End Discrimination

Editor, News-Register: The Wheeling Human Rights Commission voted in 2016 to petition the Wheeling City Council to add the LGBTQ community and others to Wheeling’s Human Rights ordinance as a protected class from discrimination in the fields of housing, employment and public accommodation. ...

Reduce Tobacco Use

Editor, News-Register: I recently traveled from Marshall County to the Statehouse in Charleston to represent cancer patients and survivors. I called on our state lawmakers to make reducing the toll of tobacco on West Virginians a priority. I was honored to be joined by my fellow American ...

Start Classes Later

Editor, News-Register: Our Board of Education recently had a “workday” to discuss having an earlier start time for high school. The news article, however, seemed to indicate changing the time from 7:25 to 7:55. I’m less interested in the suggestions than in what “research” is ...