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Consider Adopting Pets

Editorials

A full house at the Ohio County Animal Shelter means an less expensive road toward finding a new pet for the household. There currently are 22 dogs and 25 cats at the shelter, and in an effort to find those animals new families, the shelter is offering a 50% discount on adoption fees through the end of August. The normal $160 fee to adopt a dog is currently $80. The normal $60 fee to adopt a cat is currently $30. Those fees also include having the animal spayed or neutered. There are a variety of ages and sizes for both dogs and cats. Many of these animals find their way to the ...

Reporter's Notebook: Thoughts and prayers

Local Columns

I have covered many legislative committee meetings in my time under the golden dome, but I have never seen a worse outing for a new cabinet secretary than I did last week for Carl Ayers, the new secretary of the Department of Human Services. Ayers is only 23 days in, with his first day the same day as the start of the delayed School Clothing Allowance program on July 20. I have to wonder if he would have taken the job knowing he would be walking into a mess created by Gov. Patrick Morrisey His first real brush with lawmakers came Tuesday when he testified before the Legislative ...

Local Test Scores Still Not Where Need to Be

Editorials

The latest round of assessment test scores for West Virginia students were released on Wednesday, and as expected, there were no real gains from the previous school year. Across the state, only 48% of students tested proficient in reading, 39% in math, and 29% in science. That’s not even close to being good enough. Locally, Ohio County saw 58% of its students proficient in reading, 48% in math and 35% in science. Marshall County had 46% proficiency in reading, 41% in math and 29% in science. Wetzel County, the reading proficiency was at 44%, math at 41% and science at 25%. The ...

John McCabe: Wheeling Can’t Afford To Automatically Say No

Local Columns

There’s still plenty we don’t know about Silicon Foundation’s proposed data center and energy technology campus at the former Centre Foundry property in Warwood. And there are plenty of legitimate questions that need to keep being asked. But after Tuesday night’s Wheeling City ...

Passion Is Welcome. Disrespect Is Not.

Editorials

There is nothing wrong with opposing Silicon Foundation’s proposed data center and energy technology campus in Warwood. There is nothing wrong with questioning the company’s plans, challenging its claims or demanding answers from Wheeling City Council. In fact, residents should do all of those things. But there is a right way to participate in the public process. What happened at Tuesday’s City Council meeting crossed that line. A standing-room-only crowd came to hear Andrii Garanin of Silicon Foundation publicly discuss the proposal for the former Centre Foundry property. ...