Letters to the Editor

Don’t Mess With Centre Market

Editor, News-Register: Here we go again! Car-less Centre Market? Goodbye Coleman’s! Before changes are made to accommodate a younger demographic, a study better be conducted to fathom why they would be in that area between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. in numbers that would match what’s required to keep businesses alive? Catch a coffee and go? It stretches the imagination to come up with what benefits a car-less scenario would provide? Obesity cure? And who are these people that are obese that would walk from who knows where to what? Maybe dodging traffic would be more helpful, if ...

Responsibility to Defend the Law

Editor, News-Register: United States laws are defined by and have stood the test of time based on their legislative branch established language. These laws are ratified by the executive branch with a signature of approval. The judicial branch of our government is to interpret given a given law’s language relating to real world applications of that law. The legislative, executive, and judicial branches have proven since 1776 to be a strong, stable triad foundation for this union of our United States. The attorney generals play the vital role of taking the responsibility ...

Addressing Gasoline Shortage

Editor, News-Register: It appears that Republican members of Congress as well as their advocates in the media are, unashamedly, so willing to place the sole blame and responsibility for the current historically high price for gasoline on current President Joe Biden. I would like to respectfully submit a number of pertinent facts that may shed a somewhat different light on the critical subject. For the record, the price of gasoline recently peaked at $5.02 per gallon nationally, which marked a 40 percent increase from the average cost of $3.40 on December 2021. That is the result in ...

There is No Left or Right Today

Editor, News-Register: We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. It’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers. You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. I’d like to suggest there is no such ...

A Unique Education Opportunity

Editor, News-Register: For over 20 years now, students in many states across the country have had the opportunity to receive a quality education completely online. This is something that families in West Virginia have desperately needed and now, beginning this fall, will finally have access to through West Virginia Virtual Academy. Virtual learning is an excellent opportunity for students who may have unique, individualized learning styles to customize their education. Our methods of teaching and delivery allow families far greater control over when and how their children learn with ...

A Pro-Lifer’s Argument Against Overturning Roe v. Wade

Editor, News-Register: Recently the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the long-standing Roe v. Wade case, which made abortion throughout the United States legal. This ruling will allow states to enact rigid regulations or make abortion illegal. This ruling has caused great riffs across sociopolitical lines. While I do not support abortion, the SCOTUS ruling sets a dangerous precedent that may be even more far-reaching than a woman’s right to choose. I am pro-life; however, a woman should not be forced to have a child at the risk of her health or if the pregnancy ...