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Beware of biases; oil and gas industry has not fizzled

I am writing in response to the Marietta Times “Our Opinion” column printed on Monday, August 28th and titled “The gas boom fizzled. Look now to the future”. Rarely does one read such a blatantly biased and misleading editorial, and I felt a reply was warranted. Dr. Chase, former head of the Petroleum Engineering department at Marietta College, has previously written a nice letter in response, but I would like to add just a few more numbers to fully highlight to the public how disingenuous this column was. Dr. Chase was quite tactful. I am annoyed enough by the deception to ...

Thanks for Dueling Pianos success

The Knights of Columbus Council 4617 in Churchtown, Ohio would like to thank everyone who came out to our second Dueling Pianos fundraiser held on Aug. 26. We hope that everyone had a great time and look forward to having this again, next year! We especially want to thank our 2023 event sponsors. They include Brooker For Judge - Common Pleas Magistrate, Discount Signs & Awning & Trademark Solutions, The Citizens Bank Company, and Wilson Smokers & BBQ. A very big thank you goes out to our Best of Churchtown basket sponsors who donated items. They include Lauren Alexander, Justin ...

Oil and gas boom has not fizzled; new industries will continue to be attracted to Shale Crescent region

I am responding to the Marietta Times “Our Opinion” column published on Monday, Aug. 28 regarding the Ohio River Valley Institute’s (ORVI) totally inaccurate conclusion that the oil and gas boom has fizzled. The readers’ first tip that the report by ORVI may be biased against the oil and gas industry lies in their reference to the Shale Crescent region of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as “Frackalachia.” ORVI failed to use the most accurate data on oil and gas production that can be readily obtained from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources website ...

A look at the way politics used to be

Do you remember when… Do you remember when “we” used to elect a new president? We accepted our new president whether we had voted for him or not. Life went on; it was no big deal. He was the president of all the people. Do you remember when we had a peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next? All the past presidents showed up for the inauguration to pay their respects to the new president. And they kept quiet as the new president charted his course in governing the nation. Do you remember when we all listened to the same news? The news broadcasters seemed to be ...

Thank you

Phi Theta Kappa is the official honor society of community colleges. It has 3.5 million members and over 1,200 chapters in the United States and around the world. Its mission is to encourage scholarship and develop leaders. The Alpha Rho Gamma Chapter has been active in Southeastern Ohio for the past 33 years. This summer, the Alpha Rho Gamma Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa hosted a conference at Washington State Community College. The conference was dedicated to Eve, Inc., the shelter for battered women. We asked all 41 chapters in the Ohio Region of Phi Theta Kappa attending ...

Save the planet for the kids

When their house blows away, or floats away, or is burned to the ground, maybe, maybe, the climate deniers will realize we are in a climate crisis and they need to listen to the youth of the world. A group called Prager U which describes itself as “the world’s leading conservative nonprofit” is providing millions of students in Florida with materials that falsely claim wind and solar power pollute the planet and compare climate activists to Nazis. Texas has joined Florida in choosing these materials. Why would people in Texas deny climate crisis when they have experienced some ...