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MOV Climate Corner: Biting your nose to spite your face

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It has become obvious that the Trump administration as well as Republicans in Ohio and West Virginia no longer believe their own mantra “all of the above” when it comes to energy sources. Instead, this administration has put a halt to as many renewable energy projects as possible and is now taking us back to the good ole’ days where fossil fuels were our only choice. West Virginia politicians and the Trump administration want to revive the coal industry while ignoring the negative environmental and health impacts, the costs, and the fact that the average age of coal plants is ...

The Bill of Rights

Local Columns

Why is the United States Constitution the world’s longest surviving written charter of government in the world? Could it be because of the three branches of government, mapped out in Articles, I, II and III, providing the checks and balances to ensure power is shared? Or is it the states’ rights described in Article IV assuring each state respects the other states? Has the Constitution survived because of the famous Preamble, “We the People” that affirms the government of the United States exists to serve the citizens? Or could it be Article V which explains how to make ...

Joseph Rogers’ dream

Local Columns

Joseph Rogers’ heart was pounding as he sat upright in his bed. He had dreamt that he would either kill or be killed by Indians the next day. Rogers was a scout at Campus Martius, the fortified community at Marietta, in 1791. His peers rated him as one of the best. He had served in the Revolutionary War with Morgan’s Riflemen. Then, nearing age 50, as Historian Samuel Hildreth explained, “Rogers came (to Marietta), with many other old soldiers of the revolution, to seek a home.” Many veterans seeking a fresh start moved here. This was a tense time. Dozens of Indian attacks, ...

More than words: Non-verbal communication

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My daughter, Dannielle, her husband and Arnie, their 7-year-old golden retriever came home for Memorial Day weekend. Arnie can’t speak a word of English but has a large vocabulary. Words like treat, outside, toy, food and bedtime are commonly understood by most dogs. Arnie takes communication to another level with his eyes, facial expressions, grunts and barks. I have seen Arnie’s frustration when his masters don’t understand his various grunts. Dannielle knows when Arnie grunts at 9 p.m. it’s time for his dental treat. I have no idea how he knows the time. Sitting at my desk ...

House Passed Budget Bill May 2025

Letters to the Editor

Part 2—Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology Modernization Under this section, AI is defined as a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments. An AI model is a software component of an information system that implements AI technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a defined set of inputs. An AI system is any data system, software, hardware, application, tool, or utility that operates in whole ...

The need to prevent such disasters

Editorials

Norfolk Southern says it still expects site restoration in East Palestine to be “substantially complete by early/mid June.” This despite additional monitoring wells being installed as recently as the end of March, and sediment and surface water monitoring that continues to show evidence of the catastrophic derailment that occurred there more than two years ago. Charts made available by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show there is still visible sheen on affected waterways — in fact, instances of heavy sheen being observed as late as April in part of Sulphur ...