Editor, News-Register: I get it that young family residents are needed in Wheeling, but it’s often the older people who are spending lots of money and doing charity work in the area. Since there is a surplus of money, how about building Wheeling a state of the art Senior Center. I have lived all over the U.S., and most communities of this size have senior centers. Let’s make Wheeling a wonderful place to live in and a wonderful place to retire in! Harriet Parsons Wheeling
Editor, News-Register: Well Mr. Mayor, Gov. Jim Justice announced that there is money available for bridges that are not owned by the state, something like $500 million. So is the city of Wheeling going to try to replace the Manchester Bridge? This would open up that area of town that has been neglected for many years! Jesse Howell Wheeling
Editor, News-Register: It has been reported that former president Donald Trump recently dined with perhaps the most unabshed and influential, self-proclaimed, anti-semite and white supremacist in our nation, Nick Fuentes, who, among other things, has stated that the holocaust did not occur, and has suggested that lawmakers who voted to certify that the 2020 presidential election that was lawfully won by President Joe Biden “should be executed,” and has incredibly referred to Mr. Trump as one of the greatest Americans who has ever lived. The dinner was reportedly arranged by ...
Editor, News-Register: I’m writing to thank Mr. Bill Bryant for regularly providing me many, many laugh out loud moments. As most regular readers of the News Register’s Letters to the Editor already know, Mr. Bryant is a St. Clairsville resident who’s incredibly maniacal obsession with former President Trump has been loudly documented on this page on a near-weekly basis for the past half dozen plus years. Mr. Bryant regularly and predictably unleashes venom filled diatribes accusing the former President of committing every crime in the world except the kidnapping of the ...
Editor, News-Register: In the upcoming 2023 legislative session, an effort will be made to give married persons the same legal protection in a sexual abuse situation that unmarried people already have. While not a topic that is discussed often, it is shocking that being married gives a spouse less legal protection after being a victim of certain forced sexual contact to which they did not consent. Our criminal laws distinguish between sexual assault and sexual abuse. A spouse committing sexual assault against the other spouse can be prosecuted for that, but when a spouse ...
Editor, News-Register: Twas the night before Christmas and all through the streets Many were hovering under tiny tents made of sheets The homeless were curled up on the cold hard ground Neither a warm meal nor pillow for their heads to be found No stockings are hung by a chimney with care Besides a few items their homemade tents are bare No bright lights twinkle on a Christmas tree Just a glimmer of moonlight through a tear, I see What they would give for a mere Christmas blessing Rather than lying alone in the cold, trembling So, for those of us warm and snug in ...