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Good news in plans for future bridge

Pretty much every major politician who has made their way through our area in the last year has found a way to emphasize the importance of infrastructure investment, with particular nods to the status of the Market Street Bridge. I tend to take anything a politician says with a grain of salt, preferring a wait and see approach to the campaign promises made while they are seeking election. This time, at least, it looks as if some of them were serious. Last summer, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito announced she had negotiated $87.5 million through the federal Bridge Investment Program to ...

Guest Column: The Supreme Court is deciding whether justice has a zip code

In my law office, I’ve met with families this year who came in not knowing if their children would remain U.S. citizens. Not knowing if a court ruling in one part of the country would protect them in another. Not knowing if the law still worked for them at all. That’s the real-world cost of a case currently before the United States Supreme Court, Trump v. CASA, Inc. 24A884, which asks whether federal judges should continue to have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions. Strip that away, and justice becomes a patchwork where the protection of the Constitution depends on where ...

Guest Column: Filing formal and informal complaints

I suppose it would come as no surprise to you that most of the comments we receive at the Public Service Commission are from people who are complaining about their utility services or the rates they must pay. We invite the public to comment on any and all cases before the Commission. It certainly is your right, and the Commission welcomes your comments. We have multiple ways by which you can file comments with the Commission. These include filing online, by mail, or physically coming into the Commission to state your mind while we are in session. Today, I would like to spend a ...

Somewhere along the way, our hearts changed

There were moments when I was putting together the above story when I was taken back to those days when I was around the age of being a fourth-grader. I guess that would be about, what … 10? I’m pretty sure all of us could go back and conjure up a few memories from our childhood during that time. You see, the children in that story are filled with a sadness for each of these dogs and cats living at the local animal shelter. And they are filled with so much love for every single one. No exclusions. Not just the cute puppy with its fabulous puppy breath. Not just the ...

Talking budgets with California on my mind

As you are reading this, I am vacationing with my wife and mother-in-law in Southern California, staying at a resort just south of Orange County. For my mother-in-law, this is a bucket list trip to dip her toes in the Pacific Ocean for the first time. For my wife, this is an opportunity to visit Disney Land and see Hollywood. For me, it is about reconnecting spiritually with my biological mother’s side of the family. My mother, Ethel Mae Glee Adams, died in 2019 due to complications from lung cancer, being a lifelong smoker. My grandparents on my mother’s side have been dead for ...

It’s officially time to write the next chapter

We often get quarterly financial reports from companies with some ties to our area, even if they don’t necessarily have a physical presence in the Ohio Valley, so I was expecting to see a release from Cleveland-Cliffs appear in my inbox sometime this week. What I wasn’t expecting in the email, which was sent out just after 5 p.m., Wednesday (just in time for a significant percentage of people to have left work for the day) was the one sentence blurb located at the bottom of a list of operational changes being made by the company: “In addition, the Company will no longer be ...