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Sunday, June 26, 2022
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One reason Brad D. Smith was hired to be Marshall University’s 38th president was his experience in the corporate world. As CEO of tech company Intuit, he was expected to foresee trends and allocate resources so the company could prosper through changes in market conditions.
A gun’s beauty is in the eye of the holder, a truth made acutely evident to Kanawha County Family Court Judge Jim Douglas during a cruise Monday night on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.
Saturday, June 25, 2022
I travel the globe each day through YouTube. Not all day long mind you, just when I sit down to relax. A live webcam (or cam) on my TV screen gives me a gateway to another world. I become a person in the crowd.
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Friday, June 24, 2022
My river contact and social media friend C.R. Neale, whose family-owned business near Vienna, West Virginia, moves barges around on the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, gave us the Facebook post of the year this week.
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Over the past two years both of us made the decision to organize our teams with local trades unions. We did this because we do not view unions as a problem to be managed but rather as an opportunity to be leveraged. Too often in the past 40 years, business development has become a race to th…
Thursday, June 23, 2022
A year ago, gasoline was selling for $2.759 in Huntington. This week, the price averages about $4.899 with little relief in sight. Have we seen the last of $3 gasoline for a while? The CEO of ExxonMobil won’t say we have, but this week he dropped some pretty strong hints we may have.
Human nature is a funny thing. On one hand we give strong credence to the belief that we should love thy neighbor and treat others as we wish them to treat us. Isn’t that what most religions teach?
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
By the end of next year, another 100 acres at The Point industrial park at South Point, Ohio, could be ready for large-scale industrial development.
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Evidence has been piling up in the Jan. 6 committee hearings in the U.S. House probing the 2021 Capitol riot that former President Donald J. Trump was complicit in drawing a mob to Washington, D.C., to protest against the certification of his electoral loss to Joe Biden.
Cabell County is blessed to have cities filled with economic opportunity, respected institutions of higher learning and a wide variety of athletic and entertainment options from which to choose. It is undeniably a wonderful place to live and to raise a family. However, what makes me most pro…
Monday, June 20, 2022
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph published this editorial on June 13:
Sunday, June 19, 2022
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The future is coming up on us fast in terms of changing our electric power grid from fossil fuels to carbon-neutral generation.
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Saturday, June 18, 2022
Some readers don’t read or can’t, evidenced in response to a recent offering in this space.
The West Virginia revenue secretary said West Virginia had a fiscal $1.2 billion surplus. Do you think the Division of Highways can afford a level?
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I recently called Huntington the Hot Dog Capital of the USA. Not only do we have the best dogs and most parlors, I can safely claim capital because no other city does.
Friday, June 17, 2022
This editorial was published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail on Wednesday:
Recently, The Herald-Dispatch (and also, I believe, the Charleston Gazette-Mail) carried a passionate but misguided message to “graduates, students et al” by Lee Wolverton, executive editor of both newspapers. The tone of this message was unrelievedly negative; the graduates et al were told …
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Law enforcement officers can project an air of intimidation when they walk up to a person. The fact an officer carries a firearm, a taser and other equipment that can subdue, injure or kill a person combined with a sometimes overly aggressive attitude means the officer bears a large responsi…
Many things were learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the importance of “essential workers,” that our nation’s health care system needs updating and that school children benefit greatly from personal contact with peers and teachers. Virtual schooling illuminated this last point.
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
This weekend I took delivery of some prints I had made. My order included three 8-by-10s of the grandkids, one of the lunar eclipse, one of a rainbow and one of my son with the school bus he owns (long story). There were lots of 4-by-6s of family, nature and river.
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
If Gov. Jim Justice can contract Lyme disease from a tick bite, so can any of the rest of us mortals. And remember: Unless caught early enough and treated properly, this disease is potentially a killer. So is another tick-borne malady, Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Floods are a fact of life in Appalachia, whether you’re talking about the Ohio River, the Elk River or smaller streams such as Fourpole Creek.
Sunday, June 12, 2022
About 20 people were on hand at 10:30 a.m. Friday to watch the passenger boat American Countess tie up at Harris Riverfront Park. They were curious about the boat and the three coach buses arriving to take passengers on tours of the city.
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Saturday, June 11, 2022
Acceptance of futility is bliss but doing this requires ignorance, which one acquires only naturally even if later it may be applied willfully.
The older I get the more I appreciate country food. I like my cornbread simple— little or no salt, sugar or butter. It’s healthier than refined white bread, there being a bit of fiber and extra nutrients in cornmeal.
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Friday, June 10, 2022
Gov. Jim Justice reversed course Wednesday on the possibility of a temporary suspension of the state’s gasoline tax, just two days after he himself raised the possibility of a special session of the Legislature to do just that.
My greatest frustration as an elected official has been the tendency most people have to cling to preconceived notions no matter what data suggests. Rather than problem solving by the scientific method of observing, gathering data, experimenting, testing, then developing a hypothesis, it is …
Thursday, June 09, 2022
The daily news is usually depressing. Lately it seems even more so, possibly because of our two strange years of COVID-19. We constantly hear about the devastating war in Ukraine, frequent senseless shootings in schools and public places, inflation, drugs, extreme political conflicts and mor…
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Wednesday, June 08, 2022
Should people who are not U.S. citizens be allowed to vote in local elections? How about statewide elections? Or elections for the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate or even president of the United States?
We live in what has been called the “Hell No” Culture. Public discourse becomes more tribal than rational. Compromise is deplored, and only winning is acceptable — not just winning but humiliating and destroying any opposition. Consider three current issues.
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
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In the wake of two horrific mass shootings at Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, here’s what I think needs to happen — tough on current gun owners though it may be.
Monday, June 06, 2022
The Charleston Gazette-Mail published this editorial on June 3:
Sunday, June 05, 2022
Those younger than 18 have little cause to heed the exhortations and admonitions of someone older than 55 whom they’ve never met, but nonetheless, this one’s for the kids.
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Saturday, June 04, 2022
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I’ve always ordered “everything” on my hot dogs except when I was little and dressed them with ketchup. Ordering everything in Huntington means slaw, onions, mustard and sauce. (Sauce. Sauce. Not chili. We’re not in New Jersey.)