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Local Columns

Session of Foundational Improvement for Families

As your state senator, I am proud to provide a summary of the transformational legislation that passed earlier this year. Under the leadership of Gov. Patrick Morrisey and others, we passed an incredible array of bills that will make generational improvements for our Northern Panhandle ...

Marshall Memo: Book Signing; Community Trust; and City Updates

There will be a book signing from 2-4 p.m. Wednesday at the Moundsville Library. Authors Gary Rider and Roseanna Dakan Keller announced the release of their latest volume of Marshall County Patriots and Heroes. This is volume 15 in the series and features more stories of our local veterans. ...

Vivek Ramaswamy Right Leader To Be Ohio’s Next Governor

In 2012, I was invited to a conference held by the Milton Friedman Institute in Indianapolis. The Institute invited 20 or so legislators from around the country to discuss school choice issues and how much progress had been made to that point. Like most conferences we heard from a variety of ...

Reporter’s Notebook: Politics Ain’t Beanbag

There is an old saying that “politics ain’t beanbag,” meaning that the political arena can be a rough and tumble place. On one hand, I can understand West Virginia Democratic leaders jumping on the ill-timed nomination of former GOP candidate for governor and former lawmaker Moore ...

The Power of Possessives May Be the Path Forward

When I was a young junior officer in the Navy, I was once admonished (that’s a polite word for “chewed out”) for referring to San Clemente Island as “my island” in front of a group of visiting senior civil servants. As the Island Operations Officer, I took enormous pride in the work ...