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Regarding your concerns

Mr. John Fortney, I recently saw your letter to Marietta City Council and I just have to ask: were you our local weatherman? I distinctly remember a handsome weatherman by your name going to my kindergarten class to teach us about weather phenomena. It may have been my first exposure to the wonderous, “tornado in a bottle”. I remained rather smitten with that man and was always pleased whenever I heard of his apparent upward mobility over the years. I was delighted to learn that you were also a member of the long blue line. Now perhaps I should not begin this missive by reminding ...

Trump embarrasses U.S. in UN

Donald Trump droned for an hour before the United Nations showing what an absolute buffoon he is. Whining about an escalator malfunction (boo hoo) and a teleprompter (he doesn’t read), he tells the world’s nations only burning fossil fuels and stopping immigration will make them great. As if? If our clown president wasn’t responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in less than a year, masked thugs disappearing humans off US streets and destroying the basis for the nation’s founding, he would be completely comical. The question is where will Trump’s war crimes trial ...

Don’t be a sleeping sheep

The Great American Democratic Experiment is dead after 249 years. The USA has concentration camps in various states. Innocents die. National Guard, Army and masked ICE agents are terrorizing our citizens in various cities. Innocents die. Corporations and universities are being taken over with Gestapo tactics. Innocents suffer. Hundreds of thousands of children are dying world wide in too many countries to count (Sudan, Congo, Gaza) because of heartless and criminal violations of international law. People are being murdered off the coast of Venezuela because the “stable ...

Response to Injection Well Letter

Dear Editor: On Sept. 19, you ran a letter from a Mr. John Fortney regarding Marietta City Council’s desire to see something done about any more injection wells being forced on the citizens of Washington County. I want to clarify what is at stake in this discussion. Marietta City Council’s concern is — and always will be — the safety and well-being of the people who live here. The CITIZENS are who we work for. Not special interests. I might question who Mr. Fortney, a resident of Columbus, and Communications Director for the Ohio Senate Majority Caucus, is actually speaking ...

Message to Marietta City Council and Mayor’s Office

It is troubling to think that there is even the appearance of a conflict of interest between several members of Marietta City Council and a far left so-called environmental group from Athens County that is funded by hundreds-of-thousands of dollars from four special interest groups in California. The city council (from the first settlement of the Northwest Territory) needs to ask itself who it works for. The people of Marietta, Ohio, or radical leftists out of San Francisco, California? For the city council to even consider a partnership with Earth Justice, a quarter billion-dollar ...

No on permit to drill injection well(s)

Marietta was just voted the “best” historical small town in the United States. That is fantastic to say the least. Marietta being the first settlement and the gateway to the west. That designation will truly help tourism and the bottom-line income for the many small shops in and around Marietta. This we are at risk of losing if we do not have clean water. If we allow one family business to make millions while potentially taking away the income to all the local shops benefiting from tourism. We are the fracking industry’s dumping ground. I attended the Ohio EPA’s meeting and ...