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Presidents Day chance to reflect

Monday is Presidents Day, and it should be a chance to reflect, to honor and to give thanks. It should be an opportunity to remember that while our president changes every four or eight years, our democracy continues to set a standard that is the envy of the rest of the world. The office itself always has served as testament to the peaceful transfer of power, even when that concept has been met with extraordinary challenges, and to the symbol of leadership that resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. The holiday is the combination of days that originally had been set ...

Morrisey sets positive tone

During his first State of the State address Wednesday, Gov. Patrick Morrisey painted West Virginia as being at the start of a comeback. If that is the case, it is a resurgence long overdue. Our challenge now is to engineer that comeback with a focus so strong it is not slowed by those elected officials whose mission extends no further than pushing the Mountain State backward at any chance presented. To that end, Morrisey was right to understand our obligation to build a West Virginia in which young people want to stay, raise families and thrive. In fact, Morrisey hit on several ...

Premium Guard a good addition

The Tri-State Area received good news on Friday with the announcement Premium Guard Inc. will be locating a new operation in the community. As part of its plans for growth, which include expanding its market into Canada, the Memphis-based company, which manufactures automotive filters and other parts and accessories, has decided to set up shop in the Upper Ohio Valley, moving into a facility once home to the rue21 distribution center on Park Drive. This is good news for two major reasons. One, it fills space which has been vacant for the last several months, ensuring a ...

Setting the stage for West Virginia

Tonight, Gov. Patrick Morrisey will deliver his first State of the State Address to lawmakers and West Virginia residents from the state Capitol. There will be the usual pomp and circumstance surrounding such events, but Morrisey has much work to do in the months ahead — there will be no time for folksy sayings or shenanigans, as the state was forced to deal with the prior eight years. No, first on Morrisey’s list must be how to address the $400 million hole in the state budget left by the Justice Administration. Morrisey has said the budget hole comes from a combination of ...

Our surest sign spring is near

There has been plenty of evidence during the past month or so that winter continues to hold its grip on the Tri-State Area. We’ve seen snow, bitter cold and freezing rain — a pretty good sampling of what winter has to offer. And even though the region’s groundhogs offered different outlooks on what lies ahead (Punxsutawney Phil said six more weeks of winter, while Buckeye Chuck and French Creek Freddie both called for an early spring), a glance at the calendar reminds us that spring will arrive in a little more than a month — at 5:01 a.m. March 20, to be precise. If you ...

Consider origin of animal products

Most of us try to shop responsibly, but for some items, we don’t know what we don’t know. For example, how many use coyote urine to keep deer out of gardens? How many think about how the key ingredient is acquired? “People don’t know that when they buy products that they might be endorsing a fur farm, including myself,” Susan Vogt, founder and president of Red Riding Hood Rescue Project in Middletown told WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. Vogt was speaking to the news station after having helped save hundreds of animals from an Ashtabula County fur farm in January. Vogt described ...