Gov. Patrick Morrisey on Sunday declared a State of Emergency in Ohio County due to flash-flooding that swept through Triadelphia, Valley Grove, Elm Grove and parts of the Woodsdale neighborhood late Saturday evening. While that’s the official designation necessary to allow for help from ...
I really wasn’t expecting to have to write, in essence, an obituary for former lawmaker and politician Doug Skaff last Tuesday. The accident that killed him remains under investigation, but by all reports it was a freak accident on I-79 near Weston. Skaff’s SUV went into the back of a ...
There’s something fundamentally wrong when city leaders repeatedly tell a private property owner that there’s nothing that can be done with their property. Want a zone change? Not a chance. Want to tear down a building currently sitting alongside one of Wheeling’s busiest roads and build ...
Editor, News-Register: I believe that fascism is running rampant in America. In Our America. Our West Virginia senators and representatives in Washington, D.C., refuse to hear us, refuse to answer our calls, refuse to represent their constituents by ignoring their voices. Donald ...
The evidence suggests that the role of a father in the United States is changing and that the male parent can contribute much more to the child’s development during the first months of life. At a Rotary meeting that I attended, a well-respected pediatrician stated that scientist have ...
Both Wheeling and Ohio County have the same problem: a declining and aging population. The 41,000 people here today (Ohio County at its peak nearly a century ago had 72,077 residents) are being forced to shoulder more of the burden when it comes to public utilities, taxes and more. This is an ...