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Increase SNAP Benefit

Editor, News-Register: As the coronavirus rages on across the state, it has caused yet another crisis — child hunger. Thousands of families with kids right here in West Virginia are now dealing with unemployment, rising food prices, eviction and hunger. And yet Congress continues to fail these children by leaving nutrition assistance out of the coronavirus relief package. Hunger is a problem we can actually fix. Increasing SNAP benefits by 15% would mean an additional $25 per month per person. Just $25 per month for a child would allow families to buy the nutritional foods they ...

Helping Others

The pandemic has brought a lot of suffering and also a lot of confusion — the task of trying to differentiate fact from “almost fact” is seemingly insurmountable. While dealing with this cloud of anxiety and physical distancing let’s try to remember to have compassion for others, not just now but especially when this nightmare is ending. The lesson to learn is that every day is precious and every one of us needs help from others. Don’t exclude conscientiousness as though it too were a virus. This virus recognizes no boundaries and has no preferences. It travels without a ...

Policing News Media

Editor, News-Register: Earlier this month, I opened my mouth and spoke my mind about a problem with politics, as I see it. Since so many people responded to me about the situation we are experiencing with the news media today, it’s only right that I am compelled to offer my solution to the problem. The problem is that we, the public, are not getting the truth from the mainstream media. They seem to have an agenda of their own and are presenting the news as they wish us to see it and not really as it is. I always thought this was against the them of journalism (pretty much as ...

Suppressing Voter

Editor, News-Register: As President Trump has made an entirely baseless claim, which unfortunately has been his forte, that widespread mail-in voting (as a result of COVID-19 concerns) would result in “the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history,” he has, among other recommendations, proposed to somehow delay the upcoming election. He, as president, has no authority to personally implement that idea, as every presidential election is statutorially established by Congress, which has been the case since 1845, and only Congress, if it so chooses, can change it. Funny ...

Get Kids Back to School

Editor, News-Register: Jenny Craig is the president of the Ohio County Education Association, the larger of the two local teacher unions. Recently she has been advocating on every local media outlet, be it print, radio, or television, that our kids should not be in school for at least the first nine weeks, and all education should be entirely on-line. She says we are all in this together, and it is not a matter of us parents versus teachers. Well, frankly, I am done with her can’t we all just get along fake attitude. She says it’s not us versus them, but she is intransigent ...

Make Issue Non-Political

Editor, News-Register: As the election approaches, there is an erroneous but widely held opinion that Catholics must vote for Donald Trump because he said, “I am pro-life.” But if Trump were really pro-life, he would not have tried to repeal and continuously undermine the Affordable Care Act. The ACA provides health insurance for women, and although there are no statistics to prove it, it is reasonable to believe that it enabled many women to choose life. Some, including Catholic nuns, have pointed out that many politicians who claim to be pro-life do not care about children once ...