Editor, News-Register: Hey state highways workers! This is your friendly neighborhood taxpayer with a question: Why can’t you fix the road by Kroger — it wouldn’t take much to grind down the speed bumps that are there. If you don’t feel safe doing it in the daytime, do it at night. Also, 20th Street Extension by the newspaper’s printing plant has to be the worst street in Wheeling. Try doing a little work, if you please. J. Myers Wheeling
Editor, News-Register: As an intern at The Borgen Project, a national nonprofit organization that works on making global poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy, I have been educated on the many benefits of sending aid to developing countries. Not only does it improve the global economy and save millions of lives, but it also advances the U.S.’s own interests, such as national security and job creation. Less than 1 percent of the national budget is spent on foreign aid, compared to a massive 54 percent being spent on the military. So why are we spending so much when it is clear that ...
Editor, News-Register: Mr. Joe Manchin, I am asking for your help to save our state and our country from Marxism. We must block the upcoming $3 trillion bill being pushed by the democrat party and by Biden. I am asking for your vote to be against that bill. Our country is already so far in debt that it will be paid back by my grandchildren and their grandchildren. This has to stop!! We need to defend our country and the Constitution that you took an oath to uphold. The Bill Of Rights are under attack by the far left in government. These are our God-given rights. Our southern ...
Editor, News-Register: Sometime before 1933, my mother developed a spot on her arm and had a fever. She got better and then her mother got very sick. Grandpa called the doctor. When the doctor arrived and examined her he determined that she had small pox and it was necessary to vaccinate the entire family for smallpox. He also told my grandfather that he could not go to the barn and milk his cows. He had to call neighbors to come do the chores. When the doctor returned to check on Mary, Martha and Clement and her Dad, Fred, he could not figure out why Mary did not have a mark on her ...
Editor, News-Register: As a regular reader of your newspaper, I am especially fond of what your Readers Say. I believe it is a valuable forum for public opinion. Your regular columnists Richard Hord and David Delk are two of my favorites. But on Aug. 8th, the letter from Paul Dorsey of Bluefield, W.Va., really hit the mark. It reiterates the old axiom that “Guns don’t kill people ... People kill people.” Readers who know me also know that I am a non-violent gun owner who built a machine gun which won first place in our high school’s science fair. My, how times have ...
Editor, News-Register: The COVID-19 vaccines have been an incredible achievement for medical science and for America. They show what can happen when bioscience innovation is encouraged and mobilized with less government bureaucracy. Some people may be skeptical of the vaccines because they seemed to be developed quickly. The rapid development was the result of research that started more than 20 years ago, as bio scientists worked on another kind of coronavirus. This existing research, along with funding and streamlined regulations, allowed a worldwide collaborative to develop the ...