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Continue fight against elder abuse

It’s easy to pick out areas in which we wish Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania were doing better for residents. The list is long and varied. But in one category, all three states are doing quite well. In WalletHub’s list of States With the Best Elder-Abuse Protections, the Buckeye State is fourth in the country, the Mountain State is ninth and the Keystone State is 15th. That’s not a bad showing. Given the age of the population across the Tri-State Area, those are important protections. Ohio’s 32nd ranking for prevalence (share of elder-abuse, gross-neglect and ...

Parks investment must continue

In one of the final acts of the current administration, Weirton Council on Monday approved an allotment of $350,000 to put toward completion of a new restroom facility at Marland Heights Park, with options to also fund improvements at the Brookline Street playground and possibly some other projects if any money is remaining. While it is a far cry from addressing every need the Weirton Park Board has cited in recent years, it will, at least, address a major one which we hope will serve as a jumping-off point for the next administration. The Margaret Manson Weir Pool was demolished two ...

Doing amazing research in West Virginia

For decades, West Virginia’s representatives in Washington, D.C., tried to impress upon their colleagues the importance of directing more research funding to West Virginia University — where great progress is being made in fields ranging from neuroscience to forensic science to education. Though the folks in D.C. have been slow to understand, others are taking note. West Virginia University is now part of the Center for Clean Hydrogen, a partnership that includes not only WVU but the University of Delaware, the Chemours Company, Plug Power and the National Renewable Energy ...

A reminder of basic sportsmanship

Now that the dust has settled, responsible adults have a duty to look back on what we witnessed during college football’s rivalry week and understand it was all part of a larger and very disturbing trend we MUST reverse. The Atlantic Coast Conference fined four of its schools — North Carolina State, North Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech for in-game scuffles. But those didn’t top what happened after the Michigan Wolverines beat the Ohio State Buckeyes and violence broke out midfield to the degree that pepper spray was employed, one police officer suffered a head injury and ...

Manchin has served West Virginia well

Last week West Virginia prepared for the end of an era, as U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin gave his final speech on the floor of the Senate after having devoted his life to serving the state’s residents for more than 40 years. Manchin has been a stalwart for the Mountain State, at all levels — the House of Delegates, the state Senate, West Virginia’s secretary of state, our governor and, since 2010, a powerful voice for us in Washington, D.C., as one of our U.S. Senators. Filling the shoes of the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd might have been a daunting task for some, but Manchin did not ...

A day that remains in infamy

The words President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered to a joint session of Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, remain as powerful and meaningful today as they were when they were first spoken some 83 years ago. Americans were stunned and still reeling from the news that Japanese forces had attacked our Pearl Harbor naval base at Oahu, in the then-Territory of Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, when Roosevelt spoke for a little more than seven minutes, including breaks for applause, the following day: “Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was ...