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Be Cautious This Deer Season

Editorials

Southeast Ohio is facing the largest outbreak in the region’s confirmed cases of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in deer. An Ohio Division of Wildlife deer biologist told The Columbus Dispatch this year’s outbreak is the largest he has seen in his career, and that hundreds of dead or sick deer have been reported in Athens, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble and Washington counties. Mid-Ohio Valley counties in West Virginia have been affected, too. That will mean deer hunters will have to think a little differently about their trips. Preseason scouts in West Virginia have reported seeing ...

Here’s to Your Health Care

Local Columns

Last week marked the first legislative interim meetings since the end of June, with lawmakers getting a two-month summer break. Well, some lawmakers. Much of Republican legislative leadership spent their summer in planning meetings for a possible special session that did not happen. At one point, there was a hard date set for a special session in July. But then that was moved back to September coinciding with last week’s interims. It should be obvious that a special session — which was to be focused on the Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) — did not occur. While ...

Pats on the Back

Editorials

- To Rabbi Joshua Lief of Temple Shalom and everyone who participated in the 9/11 Service of Remembrance at Heritage Port. It is crucial that we remember the lives lost and the spirit of togetherness that came following that tragedy, and this ceremony always brings that perspective to the forefront. - To the team at the new Foxfire Film Festival. The inaugural event kicked off in grand fashion Thursday with a red carpet premiere and will offer a fantastic slate of documentaries from award-winning filmmakers throughout the weekend.

Change Needed for Struggling Districts

Editorials

A recent report included a disturbing fact about West Virginia public education. According to a story from Mountain State Spotlight, there are now eight county school districts — Mingo, Tyler, Upshur, Logan, Nicholas, Boone, Roane and Randolph — of the state’s 55 where the West Virginia Department of Education is overseeing operations. Fifteen percent of state school districts are under the state DOE microscope. That’s jarring. That’s not an indictment against the students or teachers in any of those districts. They’re not why the state has intervened. The actions of the ...

Concerns Over Closing of Wheeling IRS Office

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: Today I write to you as a taxpayer, concerned citizen and chapter president of NTEU Chapter 64. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has planned to shut down numerous offices across the country without discussing them with the public, Congress or their own employees. The Wheeling, West Virginia Field office and Taxpayer Assistance Center is one of these offices. If you live in Northern WV you are aware that oftentimes there isn’t always a direct route to get from point A to point B due to our mountainous terrain. If you live across the river in Ohio you are in ...

Carbon Capture Is an Economic Dead-End

Letters to the Editor

Editor, News-Register: In a recent opinion piece, Charles McConnell asserted that Ohio should lead in the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology because, in addition to reducing carbon emissions, it means “investment in the billions and jobs in the millions”. For 15 years, Ohio Valley residents have heard similarly grandiose claims made on behalf of the natural gas industry. But we discovered how hollow the claims were. Billions of dollars were ostensibly invested in eight natural gas-producing counties in eastern Ohio, but what residents got ...