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Christmas is out of sight

Yes, Christmas is over in Marietta and the harsh, cold reality of another winter in the Ohio Valley is upon us. The lucky ones among us are off to warmer places to escape the cold or at least retreat to warm homes with cable tv and hot beverages at the ready. What do the homeless do? Unfortunately, they are sequestered in our wooded areas and public lands where no one sees them. A lucky few are able to find shelter from the rigors of winter by sleeping on someone’s couch until the weather improves. While the homeless may be largely “out of sight” in Marietta and Washington ...

Keep growth going

We’re writing in response to last week’s letter regarding proposed gaming machines on property we own and plan to develop in Williamstown. First, we feel like we all agree on one goal: we all want the best for Williamstown. We hope, over our years with the restaurant, residents have seen that commitment from us. Every choice we’ve made has been with the best interest of our town, our employees, and our business. This year was the 40th anniversary of daVinci’s, we went into this year with big goals, to celebrate in a huge way, and end the year with expansion plans to take us ...

Thoughts on the election

Four years ago there was an election. The Democratic candidate lost the electoral college vote, even though she had won more of the popular vote. Many of us were devastated. Some of us cried, some prayed, many feared for the future under a President who came to power by creating the birther conspiracy, campaigning by bullying every other candidate, and with no knowledge of how government works and no desire to learn. However, our candidate made her concession speech and we accepted that she had lost and that there would be a peaceful transition of power because that how elections are ...

A breath of fresh air

The recent rejection by the Supreme Court of the Republican lawsuit that attempted to overturn a free and fair US election because it didn’t go their way, was a welcome breath of fresh air in this fetid Trump environment. Incredibly, this treasonous effort was backed by 19 Republican state attorneys general, and 126 US Representatives, including Rep. Bill Johnson. This was blatant sedition, and every one of them deserves to be immediately expelled from office. They have betrayed their oath to serve and protect our constitution, and they have instead shown themselves as its enemies. So ...

It’s madness to support the Texas lawsuit

I was disappointed to learn in Friday’s Marietta Times that the Washington County Commissioners resolved to request that Ohio Attorney General David Yost reverse his opposition to the Texas lawsuit. Texas Attorney General Paxton’s strategy was a coordinated attempt to use legal means to reject the will of the American people, a Biden-Harris victory which roughly half of the Republican members of Congress (including our Representative Johnson) and our own Commissioners apparently refuse to accept. 2020 has been a bizarre year, and so I suppose in some ways this is a fitting ending. I ...

Shame on our elected officials

Our congressman, our three county commissioners, both of our state representatives and our state senator have all publicly stated — on the record — that they no longer believe in the Constitution of the United States. “It’s just a piece of parchment with words on it.” Each one of them openly and publicly declared that if the United States Supreme Court didn’t overturn the election of Joe Biden, then our Constitution is meaningless. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case to overturn the election. So, as of today, we are solely represented by elected officials who don’t ...