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Censorship is a destructive force

There are many famous quotes about history, but one that should resonate deeply with every patriotic American states the following, “ History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We can not join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.” — Claude Bowers. Last week in the West Virginia Senate, Education Chair Patricia Rucker introduced SB 498 which would essentially punish teachers for teaching about or discussing historical events in regard to race and gender ...

Biden’s promise may be problematic

Sit up straight and absorb this, readers; I’m only going say it once. Well, this month anyway. I may have discovered why Big Bad Biden has trouble speaking and has to start his sentences over and sometimes his mouth moves but barely audible whisper-like sounds come out. Justice Stephen Breyer’s imminent retirement started me thinking about something. On Feb. 25, 2020, during the Democratic primary, Biden declared if he were president he would nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court of the United States should a vacancy occur. There it is. A big strategic move. He no ...

Controversy over campaign practices

The West Virginia Code of Fair Campaign Practices states, “I shall not use or permit the use of character defamation, whispering campaigns, libel, slander, or scurrilous attacks on any candidate or his or her personal or family life.” Congressional candidate David McKinley must have overlooked that Code since he is violating every aspect of that statement and other parts of the Code in his campaign against Jefferson County’s Alex Mooney. We have received two mailings from McKinley accusing Alex of corruption since he is being investigated by Nancy Pelosi’s Ethics Committee. ...

Reader enjoyed the State of the State

I hope your readers caught Gov. Jim Justice’s State of the State address Thursday evening. It was positive, humorous and entertaining and an extremely pro-West Virginia speech! In some ways it reminded me of our former state Secretary of State, A. James Manchin (the uncle of our current U.S. Senator), who I served with at one time in the WV House of Delegates. Say what you will about A. James, but he was flamboyant, colorful and a strong supporter of West Virginia, regularly defending our state against the arrogant wealthy who try to put the state down to show their supposed ...

Our Town, Inc. to continue projects

Our Town, Inc. has completed two of their downtown seasonal projects and we are looking forward to sharing our Sprout Into Spring: Tiptoe Through the Tulips event for March 2022. Thank you goes to Sue and Holt Chenoweth, who opened both their garden and tree farm to allow us to collect cornstalks and pine. Also, appreciation to Ann and Bob Baird, who joined us in cutting their own cornstalks for donation to the fall event. Wooden cut-out oak and maple leaves were distributed to the community to paint and add to the cornstalk and scarecrow displays for the October Scarecrow ...

Why is solar power lagging behind?

Most states in America already have reimbursement systems in place that pay for up to 80 percent of the cost to install home solar systems. West Virginia is sadly not one of those states because of the low cost of our electricity. My bill runs on average $350 a month. I don’t know about you, but to me that is not an insubstantial amount. It’s time for our politicians to actually do something for their people instead of lining the pockets of the utility companies. They preach about lowering our carbon footprint but won’t pass simple legislation to actually give us the ...