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Warning signs

Weather-related tragedies are everywhere we look. On Sunday, Hurricane Ida left a path of destruction in Louisiana and is now tracking northeast, with flood warnings issued as far north as Cape Cod. A few days earlier, parts of Tennessee received what is normally three months’ worth of rain in twelve hours, resulting in massive flooding and the loss of more than twenty human lives. A week or so before that, Hurricane Grace devastated parts of the Yucatan peninsula, again with loss of life. China, Japan, and Turkey have all experienced flooding in recent weeks, with landslides in Japan ...

What If?

What if? What if Biden’s claim to fame was creating a policy that jailed more minorities for petty crimes than ever before? What if Biden’s never left his basement and averaged only 4hrs. a day working? What if Biden’s son’s pornographic pictures and drug habit was all over social media for all to see? What if Biden’s son applied for illegal gun permits? What if Biden’s son received millions of dollars for a job he knew nothing about from a foreign country which had no love for our country? What if Biden’s campaign was funded by Big Tech and Big Pharma? What if Biden ...

Thank you

Little Muskingum Grange #2621 wishes to thank the sponsors of their catfish tournament and other events of the grange. The grange, founded in 1867, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, fraternal organization that advocates for rural America and agriculture. The grange has a strong history in grassroots activism, family value, patriotism, leadership, and community service. Some of our community service projects are, but not limited to, maintaining with hopes of opening it for the fall foliage tour and at Christmas time, donating to the Little Muskingum VFD, supporting area schools with money ...

The other half

Over the past several years the Marietta City School district has suffered through failed levies, school consolidation due to falling enrollment and the Covid-19 pandemic. Like many school districts in Ohio funding for schools has continued to be eroded by a reliance on property taxes and the failure of the Ohio Legislature to address school funding alternatives. While there is plenty of blame to go around, the present acrimony between leadership and the residents of the school district needs to be addressed with prompt action True enough, a case can be made that “you can’t please ...

Code Red for Humanity

“Code red for humanity” that is what United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterras stated, in regard to the latest report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). With more than 300 authors using 14,000 scientific papers the IPCC pulls together a wealth of corroborating information about the severity of the current impacts of climate change, but also the consensus about the severity of climate change going forward, of course depending on how well the human population rises to the challenge facing us. “We’re in danger of going down in history as the ...

Tragedy in Afghanistan

Tragic defeat in Afghanistan may have been inevitable. History teaches us that the region has not been kind to any force that has exerted control on the region. With that said, severe missteps have been made by the Biden Administration. First, the Administration assured us that what we are now seeing would not happen. They were warned that this possibility could occur, and now it has. This situation shows a very two-dimensional way of thinking. It illustrates a lack of preparedness for all contingencies. I would think that anyone in charge would want to cover all bases instead of ...