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MOV Climate Corner: Yes, WE are the problem

I’ve been voraciously consuming content on climate change and related phenomena (books, articles, documentaries, lectures, etc.) for at least the last 10 years, with this month being the 10-year anniversary of the founding of Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action (MOVCA). MOVCA is the climate and environmental nonprofit I helped found and have helped lead, which has been submitting climate corner content weekly since March of 2021. As I write, I’ve just finished reading maybe the most important book I’ve ever picked up on climate and related subjects. “The Story of CO2 Is the Story ...

Farmer’s Castle shielded early Belpreans from dangers

Those establishing Marietta in 1788 felt the need to expand beyond the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. As more people arrived aboard the stream of flatboats coming down the river, new settlements were created to provide homes and farmlands for the growing population. The ...

Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the basis of sex, recognizing the right of women to vote. This amendment was the result of a decades-long movement for women’s suffrage in the United States. The first women’s suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878, but it failed. A new suffrage amendment was ratified Aug. 26, 1920. This amendment allowed twenty-six million women to vote in the 1920 U.S. presidential ...

Now is the time, tomorrow may be too late

By Mark Wilmoth In her book, No Ordinary Time, author Doris Kearns Goodwin tells about Franklin Roosevelt’s handling of World War II and its effect on Roosevelt at a personal level. Goodwin notes that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage changed dramatically after Roosevelt admitted to an affair with Eleanor’s personal secretary, Lucy Mercer, in 1918. After that, the Roosevelts were political partners only; their marriage was dead. Later, as WWII progressed, Roosevelt felt the stress and needed the support of his wife, but in 1942, when Franklin asked Eleanor to come to the ...

Colorful fall foliage display

By J.J. Barrett Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! The first heavy frost for the area was predicted Thursday night as temperatures might dip to 37 degrees Fahrenheit. Hopefully, backyard gardeners covered any tender annual or warm season vegetables or flowers they want to keep ...

MOV Climate Corner: The truth matters

The war on climate science has returned with a vengeance. The Energy Department recently banned several words including “climate change” and “emissions.” Bipartisan approved renewable energy projects are being canceled. Environmental agencies are being dismantled. Climate science based policies are under attack. These hostile attacks are using a report of the recently disbanded sham “Climate Working Group,” which was stacked with climate contrarians. The fact is that the fundamental principle of global warming is considered “settled science.” This means it is ...