TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Nothing makes Brad Lancaster happier than a monsoon downpour. The tall 58-year-old jumped like a kid in the puddles on the sidewalk one recent August afternoon after a half inch (1.3 centimeters) of rain suddenly fell in Tucson, Arizona, during an especially dry ...
By J.J. Barrett Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Unfortunately, we have hit a dry spell throughout the last six weeks here in the Valley. Hopefully we get some rain in the next few weeks as we near the end of the growing season. When you clean up the garden, it is a good idea ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
