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November legislative interim meetings began Sunday at Pipestem Resort State Park near Hinton in Summers County, continuing today and wrapping up Tuesday. This is the second time lawmakers have traveled for interims, with the Legislature holding interim meetings at Stonewall Resort near Roanoke in Lewis County. It’s part of the Legislature’s efforts to travel to different parts of the state and learn more about the unique regions in West Virginia. While West Virginia is unfortunately stereotyped as one image of the hillbilly, we know that our communities are vastly different and ...

Time To Decide Future of Suspension Bridge

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The Wheeling Suspension Bridge’s fate has quite literally hung in the balance for the past six years. Now, as the most significant renovation of downtown in decades draws to a close, it’s time for the bridge’s future to be revealed. Leaders in Charleston must make a clear, final determination about how this historic span will fit into the city’s skyline — either as a traffic artery or an historic walking span. The installation of removable bollards at each end of the 176-year-old bridge has reignited discussion about its future. Those obstructions —meant to impede vehicles ...

Prioritize Infrastructure

Editorials

For years, city officials have lamented the deteriorating condition of the sidewalks along Wheeling Hill, where crumbling concrete have made the stretch along National Road unsafe for pedestrians. The problem is not new — it’s been studied, debated, and deferred for more than 20 years. But while proposals have come and gone, the reality remains: The city’s failure to prioritize infrastructure spending there has left one of its main thoroughfares — a link between downtown and Fulton — in embarrassing disrepair. City leaders now find themselves exploring, once again, whether the ...

America’s Great Income Inequality Debate Rages

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: “I can do something often accomplishes more than something must be done,” as the Trump administration announces that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not be rolled out on Nov. 1, disrupting food access nationwide. On the other side of town, the major stock indexes closed at record highs. 401K plans soar in value as workers think out loud “what is wrong with this.” If you deposit $50 a week into a growth fund — which can be done by workers with a 5% contribution and 4% corporate match then sharing 1% or more with the 401K Plan ...

Column Misses the Mark About Peaceful Protests

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: I feel compelled to respond to Cal Thomas’ uninformed article “No Kings? No One Really Has a Clue”. His review of the historic peaceful protests across our nation in response to an administration led by Donald J. Trump is egregiously misguided. He even claims that the event was largely choreographed and underwritten by donors such as George Soros as a money laundering scheme. Show us the proof, Mr. Thomas. And, speaking of money laundering, you failed to note the most recent Presidential Pardon is for Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the ...

Vote To Support Funding for Your Local Library

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: The Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County has a renewal levy on the Nov. 4 ballot. There is a group calling itself the Committee for Decent Libraries which is campaigning for the defeat of this levy because it does not approve of some books available to the public, specifically books dealing with transgenderism which are in the young adult and children section of the library. This has been an ongoing issue with this group, which wants all books with which it does not agree, removed. To put this in context, the library has approximately 65,000 items ...