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We Must Work to Save the Post Office

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: What would my life be without the Post Office? I would have to spend more money on gas to pick up my prescriptions, pay my bills, send greetings to friends and family who live miles from me As a kid growing up in the late 1940s, the Post Office was our way of living. Now and for the past several years, it has been the goal of some to privatize the Post Office. Having lived on a farm in three counties in Ohio I was spoiled by great postal workers. I have lived in several cities in Ohio and now in West Virginia. We need the postal service which does a ...

Third Grade Success Act Bad for Our Kids

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: I have been up most of the night deeply concerned about what is about to happen in local schools in West Virginia — particularly as the Third Grade Success Act reaches implementation this coming 2026-27 school year. It is very much modeled on the Mississippi Miracle in reading, which recent reports claim to be smoke and mirrors. Mandatory third-grade retention and reading laws carry several negative effects, primarily centered around emotional harm, social disruption, and long-term academic risks. Emotional and Social Impacts Lower self-esteem: ...

Why Humanity Opposes Data Centers

Local Columns

Polls from Fox to Gallup keep rolling in and the results are clear: more than seventy percent of Americans oppose data centers. For good reason. As Assaro notes, opposition is even greater in neighborhoods like Warwood getting AI data centers. Nearly every Wheeling City Councilor acknowledged the immediate reasons for opposition: significant local harms, with little to no local benefit. Massive energy, water, and noise problems, with fewer lasting jobs than a Sheetz. With scale, those local harms balloon. An entire Wheeling-sized city usually uses closer to 10 MW of power than the ...

Is it the Candidate, Or Is it the Party?

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: Johnny Haught’s recent column declaring that “independent” is no longer a bad word skips an uncomfortable possibility: sometimes the party didn’t fail the candidate. Sometimes, voters simply rejected the candidate. That possibility seems strangely absent from the post-election analysis of Haught and Dave Cantrell. Both suffered overwhelming defeats in 2024. Yet rather than asking what they personally could have done differently, we increasingly hear about everything that supposedly failed them. There is plenty to criticize about our current ...

Free Health Clinic Is A Wonderful Service

Editorials

After Samaritan’s Purse arrived in Ohio County last year to help those affected by the devastating and fatal flooding in the area, the organization knew it wanted to come back. And it did return just a little more than a year later, holding a free medical, dental and vision clinic in partnership with Newbridge Church throughout the weekend at WesBanco Arena. There is no income requirement. No health insurance or ID is required. The clinic began friday and staff will see people Saturday from 6 a.m-6 p.m. and Sunday from 1-6 p.m. “We’re taking care of people from the community ...

Hoppy Kercheval: Another Defining Moment in American History?

Local Columns

Socialism is having a moment in the United States … again. Recent election wins by candidates who identify as Democratic Socialists have generated interest in what supporters believe is a new and better way of governing. The movement has gained momentum among younger voters in ...