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Husted right to get rid of problematic staffer

Editorials

Plenty of politicians are getting caught saying the quiet part out loud these days, but few have been as bold as Stephen Woytek, political director for U.S. Sen. John Husted, R-Ohio. Woytek was rightly fired by Husted after discovery of social media activity that at best indicates a person so out of touch he should not be working on Husted's campaign. At one point, he was using as his Facebook profile picture a photograph of soldiers from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. That would be Hitler's personal bodyguard. Woytek's social media accounts also featured photos of him ...

MOV Climate Corner: In my life

Local Columns

As a child growing up in southwestern Pennsylvania, I remember the weather having four separate seasons during the calendar year. There seemed to be a specific winter, spring, summer and fall that were distinct and different. Although summers could be hot, daily temperatures rarely reached 100 degrees. Torrential rains and out of season snow storms were rare. Tornadoes and earthquakes never occurred locally or in nearby states. But the changes in the temperature and weather experienced in my own short life span seem astounding. Short at least as compared to the age of our universe or our ...

Cracking the code: Facts and truth are important

Business

During my corporate life, the company I worked for was part of a crew doing a workover on a gas well. Suddenly we hit something hard, shallower than it should have. Whatever it was, we couldn’t get any deeper. Everything stopped while we all tried to determine what was going on. The first guess was our measurement was off or the pipe tally was wrong. Well records and history were reviewed. Phone calls were made to confirm, with well records at the corporate office. An entire morning was wasted trying to solve the problem. I was standing on the rig floor when one of the new rig hands ...

Medal of Honor Monument least we can do for recipients, families

Editorials

Those who have earned Medals of Honor, gave all they had to the rest of us — to this country we call home and they were willing to defend. Military veterans, Gold Star Families, Medal of Honor recipients … all those who sacrificed so much in their service to this country had no greater champion than West Virginia’s own Hershel “Woody” Williams, who died in 2022. And this week, just ahead of the observation of the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, a bill was signed that will create the Hershel "Woody" Williams National Medal of Honor Monument on the National Mall in ...

Early Marietta: On the Trail with an Allegheny Mountain Mudbug

Local Columns

Spruce Knob, the tallest peak in West Virginia, is 4,863 ft high. Easy to drive to the top; not so easy walking up to the top on foot carrying a backpack. That was our recent hiking trip itinerary: hike down 1,500 ft to beautiful Seneca Creek, camp that night, then hike back up to Spruce Knob. ...