Last week I had two special friends of mine visiting the new Parkersburg High School cross country locker room at the PHS Annex One was Dr. Torie Jackson - president of West Virginia University at Parkersburg, and Olivia Reeder, vice president of Institutional Advancement at WVUP. To my ...
Some of us no doubt remember the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s currents led to an ice-covered Northern Hemisphere in a matter of days. Great special effects but, as the filmmakers admitted, questionable science. Fortunately, a new ice age cannot be created in two or three weeks. Unfortunately, scientists have noted a serious problem with our planet’s circulatory system, one that could lead to disastrous if less immediately dramatic effects in our children’s lifetimes. Last October, 44 oceanographers from 15 ...
Washington County takes in the second most amount of fracking waste fluid by county in the state. There are 17 Class Il fracking wastewater injection wells in the county — four of them within three miles of the city of Marietta and multiple aquifers that provide drinking water to over 30,000 people. Over 400 million gallons of oil and gas waste has been injected between 2023 and 2024. Our records request for total volumes pre-2023 has not yet been provided by ODNR. There have recently been three wells proposed in addition to the existing wells, two Class Il wells and a Class I well, ...
I must confess, I have been an Apple user for a long time, how long, 43 years long. I’ve burned through nearly 20 Macintoshes, a half dozen iPhones and one Apple Watch. The Apple watch does many things, and some of them can actually save your life. In addition to telling you what time ...
Following the Civil War and between 1865 and 1870, Congress passed Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14 and 15) to establish a new order or reconstruct laws to provide for equal freedoms and rights for African Americans. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime. But this law would soon prove not to be sufficient. Southern state legislatures began writing “Black Codes” to control the labor and activities of African Americans. An example is the Vagrancy Law which made it a crime to be unemployed, ...
Last week, Lynnda and I attended the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Summit at the Greenbrier. Attendees at the three-day event are a who’s who of the West Virginia business community. Business leaders attended from industries including health care, energy, manufacturing, chemicals, finance, banking and education. Marshall University President Brad Smith and new WVU President Michael Benson were there, along with political figures, including U.S Sens. Shelly Moore Capito and Jim Justice, Gov. Patrick Morrisey, his staff and cabinet secretaries and West Virginia ...
