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Everybody lives downstream

About 50 miles up the Ohio River from Marietta lies the small town of Clarington. Clarington has a neighbor moving in, with ill intentions. Mountaineer NGL Storage LLC with the help of its sister company, Powhatan Salt Company LLC, plan to create an underground natural gas liquids (NGL) storage facility. Powhatan Salt Company LLC is applying to the Ohio Division of Natural Resources for permits to take millions of gallons of water from the Ohio River, pump it underground to a salt cavern next to/beneath the river. The water would then dissolve a cavity in the salt cavern and the water ...

Tribute to Arbors of Marietta

At the beginning of this virus pandemic, I could not imagine that my mother of 97 years old would survive. Isolation and living in a nursing home would be very hard to keep up her good health. Not having in person visits with our mother from March until September was maybe harder for me that her, due to the staff of Arbors. The nursing staff kept close eye on all medical needs, and the personal care aides were there to keep her company, help answer her phone, even receive and send text messages with photos. The housekeeping department did above the current needs to keep the rooms and all ...

Democracy in peril

Rep. Bill Johnson’s behavior has been profoundly troubling. He came to office through the same electoral process that he strived to undermine by promoted lies and failing to accept results of a free and fair election. Mr. Johnson swore an oath to defend the constitution of the USA. In his attempt to overturn the electoral college votes, he is complicit in the insurrection at our Capital. Our democratic system requires that voters pay attention and hold our representatives to high standards. Bill Johnson has dishonored our constitution and broke the faith with the people of this ...

Here they go again

So here they go again, wasting taxpayers’ money on an impeachment trial on a man who is no longer in office. It is unconstitutional, only this time, we the citizens are paying with our lives. Do you not think all this effort and our money the House of Representatives is wasting would be better spent protecting “we the people” from the COVID-19 pandemic? How many of our loved ones have died, how many more will dies? Where is the investigation into the origin of this deadly virus? Also let’s not forget our brave men and women in the National Guard who are now infected with ...

If Vax Is So Safe, Where’s The Accountability?

I just have an observation on this allegedly safe, genetically modified COVID-vaccine that everybody seems to believe in; because we know governments always have our best interests in mind... If vaccines are so completely safe, why then did the positive, if not innocuous sounding National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 give vaccine makers a total and complete ‘free pass’ when it comes to ramifications from injury caused by vaccines? Instead of helping and protecting children, this 1986 act actually gave vaccine makers and researchers carte blanche to do as they please to ...

New America

“This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, lives are never going to be the same. I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone. You can’t justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind. We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us. Somehow it’s ...