Letters to the Editor

Rate Hikes Leading to Recession?

Editor, News-Register: As I understand economics, prices inflate because the demand for things exceeds the supply. So, how to increase the supply of goods? Get investors to invest in more production, and hire more workers. How to incentivize investors? Lower interest rates so they can borrow affordably. Why is the Federal Reserve raising interest rates? Aren’t they doing the exact opposite to cure inflation? Some believe that lowering interest rates enables consumers to buy more stuff which increases demand over supply. So, lowering interest rates must be ...

Wheeling Keeps Adding Positions

Editor, News-Register: In recent memory, our council and mayor have created numerous positions. After our city manager’s problems, an assistant manager position was created and then a spokesperson for the police department, and now a diversity position and another that I can’t think of (a homeless liaison). Why does the police department need a spokesperson? Our police chief doesn’t seem to have speaking problems. For a community that is losing population why do we have to keep making new positions? Also now they’re looking to spend a few million for free home repair, ...

Is Diversity Coordinator Needed?

Editor, News-Register: Has it been established by fact that the reason(s) cited for the need of a “diversity and inclusion” position in the city of Wheeling and Ohio County are indeed valid? What examples of either statistics and/or other factors exist to substantiate the need? What are the “base” criteria used to determine the absence of “diversity” and “inclusion?” Exactly what is the definition of each? What exactly are concrete examples of the absence of each in the city and county? Could this move be one that is diametrically opposite of the direction of ...

A Letter to Donald John Trump

Editor, News-Register: Dear The Donald: You are so lost. Perhaps you should just plead guilty and save us the wasted time of trying you for sedition/treason/disgusting behavior and turn yourself in for incarceration in the hole — where no one has to look at or hear from you — for the rest of your life. Enough sarcasm. How about some anger, Donald? How dare you, former President of the United States, denigrate our beloved Constitution and the Rule of Law defined therein? You are a two-bit grifter that should have never even been considered to be in the company of Washington, ...

Don’t Silence Voice of the People

Editor, News-Register: Citizen-led ballot initiatives have been an integral method for the citizens of the state of Ohio to actively participate in our democracy and inform their elected officials of their wishes for over 100 years. That may change with House Joint Resolution 6. This resolution seeks to deny us of our voice by requiring a super majority of 60% for passage when on the ballot but only if citizen led. Having actively worked on more than one such initiative, I can attest to the fact that it is already an arduous process. It current requires hundreds of thousands of ...

Pay Attention While Driving in Area

Editor, News-Register: Last month, on the Interstate 70 west off-ramp headed toward W.Va. 2 south, just outside the Wheeling Tunnel, I was approaching the point where traffic merges on the ramp when a car ran through that STOP sign, traveling at a high rate of speed. Had our car been seconds different we would have been hit by the car that ran through the stop sign. We could have been seriously injured or killed. That was the closest I’ve ever been to an accident, due to an uncaring driver with no apparent concern for others. The West Virginia Division of Highways did recently ...