The Way I See It By Art Smith If you are a photographer, you always strive to capture the decisive moment. The one moment at an event that captures the essence of the story, wrapping up for all time that one sliver of time that tells the whole story. Still photography has a way of doing ...
The Shale Crescent USA Team is part of a U.S. Commercial Services Roadshow to Turkey. Lynnda and I, along with SCUSA President Nathan Lord, arrived in Istanbul last Sunday. We were in three Turkish cities for Roadshow events, meeting with companies interested in investing in the USA. Most Turks guess the actual number of people in Istanbul, the nation’s largest city, to be in excess of 20 million people and still growing. Homes and businesses take up almost every available space. Not much green space. There are buildings as far as the eye can see. Not high rise steel like in Tokyo ...
On September 7, 1995, Baltimore’s Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s previous Major League consecutive game record by playing in 2131 consecutive games. Before he was finished, Ripken set the new record at 2632 games, the equivalent of going more than 16 seasons without a missed appearance. When asked why he had never missed a game despite injuries, slumps and personal problems, Ripken responded, “I wanted to be there.” The owner of a New Orleans restaurant chain served as the president of several civic organizations and also as an Elder in his local church. Despite his busy ...
As we prepare for America 250, the celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, we begin thinking of the story of America, “the great experiment.” Our thoughts go to the next important document, the U. S. Constitution signed in 1787. The framers designed something that had never happened before, a unique democratic system giving power to “we the people,” making three co-equal branches of government, and setting up checks and balances to encourage cooperation and compromise. Over the past year, The Marietta Times has run a column series on the U. ...
Data centers are growing exponentially all around the country. One is being discussed in Washington County, Ohio. There is no data center being planned in Wood County, W.Va., but the state government is doing everything it can to attract data centers to the Mountain State, and four sites are under consideration. At the governor’s urging, the WV state legislature passed HB 2014, which prohibits local jurisdiction over any data centers; the state will be diverting taxes from these sites from local bodies. In Washington County there is a data center under consideration in the Waterford ...
