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Knowledge reduces anxiety

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Preparing for our trip to Turkey, I was a little anxious. The first major overseas trip for Lynnda and me was to Tokyo, Japan, a few years ago. Shale Crescent was part of an economic development mission with the West Virginia Development Office and several other companies. Then, I was concerned about the long plane trip, over 20 hours. I thought we would be traveling as a group, then learned we were on our own. We were told which hotel we had to be at and when. That created anxiety and stress. Lynnda and I were on our own in Tokyo, a huge city with over 35 million people in the ...

Earth’s greatest enemy, part two

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In my previous Climate Corner column, I discussed “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” the explosive new documentary from journalist Abby Martin, which details the U.S. military’s role as the single worst institutional polluter on our planet. The film had its Columbus and Cleveland premieres last weekend, both of which I’d planned to attend. Keen-eyed observers may have noticed, however, that we’ve spent the better part of the past week buried under ice and snow, which had the unfortunate impact of hampering my travel plans. Never one to miss a chance to unleash his special brand of ...

Adapt to strengths

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By Greg Kozera In 2024, our high school soccer team started the season with only one win in our first seven games. We won our last seven games, outscoring opponents 31-1, and won the 2024 West Virginia boys state AA-A championship. After the first seven games, head coach Joe came to me and said, “Coach, I know their dream (the boys) is to win the state championship. I don’t think we have the horses to do it.” Smiling, I said, “Looks like we will have to develop them.” As a coaching staff we developed the talent. Something very important also happened that I didn’t ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: Fossil fuels, war, and home

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By Jean Ambrose I write this column not as a historian or a policy expert, but as someone who lives in a region that has been asked, again and again, to give more than it can. Each morning, when I look out from the ridges where I live in the Mid-Ohio Valley, I am reminded that the places we love are never abstract. They hold our bodies, our memories, our dead. We are part of them, and they are part of us. And they carry the marks of the choices we make about energy. When I watch what is unfolding in Venezuela, I do not see a distant crisis, but a familiar pattern. Deep beneath ...

Column hits the five-year mark

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Five years ago this week, I wrote the first “The Way I See It” column. That’s a lot of me, and a lot of you, our reader, reading what I have to say each week. Thank you for taking a few minutes out of your day each week to read what I have to say. I hope I have not bored you too much. If my math is correct, this is column 261. I went back and reread the first column to see what I promised I would write about. In the beginning I said that I would frequently talk about the daily photo that appears on Page 2 and “showcases the beauty of the Mid-Ohio Valley. At that time ...