Local Columns

Marshall Memo: ‘Kids’ Of All Ages To Perform Live Show At Strand; Glass Show Set

The Missoula Children’s Theatre Company will return to the Strand Theatre in Moundsville on June 19-24 offering a free acting workshop for children who have completed kindergarten through age 18 and seniors! New this year, will be the intergenerational program “King Arthur’s Quest” including actors age 55 and up. During the week, participants will be immersed in many aspects of production of a live stage show, culminating with two public performances. Pre-registrants/on-site registrants will audition from 10 a.m. until noon June 19. Those auditioning should arrive at 9:30 ...

Could the EPA Really Break America’s Power Grid?

As policymakers in Washington like to point out, America is undergoing an “energy transition.” But as Washington embarks on a major national shift toward renewable energy, there’s a serious question — can we manage this wide-scale transformation without losing the security and reliability of our existing power grid? The answer, according to the nation’s grid reliability experts, is that we’re on the verge of catastrophe. But instead of smart policies to address this looming crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has actually issued a blitz of new rules that could ...

March for Freedom Is Not Forgotten This Memorial Day

Sometimes on one of those late spring days when Memorial Day comes, you can almost see them, marching, marching onward, the legion of the forgotten dead. In the soft stillness and solitude of a country graveyard in the evening hush, occasionally you can hear the muffled beat of a drum as the endless ranks of that forgotten legion slip by, file after file, in ghostly procession never ending. They materialize, these war dead whom we honor Memorial Day, somehow, when the eye wanders idly across old grave markers to halt at a small obelisk with worn carvings making the words almost ...

‘West Virginia First’ Agreement To Help All Mountaineers

The opioid scourge is one of the greatest challenges West Virginia has ever faced. The vast oversupply of prescription opioids caused or contributed to too many senseless deaths, and too many broken families, over many, many years. We have fought hard—and we’re still fighting—to bring a sense of healing to the state. While litigation and settlements will not bring back the lives lost from the opioid epidemic, our hope is that the monies garnered will provide much needed help to those affected the most. Gov. Jim Justice recently signed into law Senate Bill 674, which codifies ...

Marshall Memo: Williams a Winner in Essay Contest; Activity Pass; and Cameron

Lorelei Williams, an 8th grade student at Moundsville Middle School, was among the top winners in this year’s essay contest held by the County Commissioners Association of West Virginia. Eleven other students from different counties also received awards ranging from first place to honorable mention. Williams was one of four students to receive honorable mention honors in the contest. More than 230 essays were submitted from 40 classrooms in 25 counties. “I’m very impressed with the participation in this year contest,” Meagan James, program coordinator for the association, ...

Permitting Reform Necessary for America’s Future

America’s permitting process is broken, consumed by bureaucratic delays and endless litigation at every turn. Our inability to permit projects in West Virginia and across the country on a timely basis is not only harming our energy security and ability to provide for ourselves, it’s also hurting our national security and ability to reduce our reliance on foreign adversaries who do not share our values. We only have to look at Putin’s ability to cripple much of Europe by cutting off Russia’s energy exports to see what happens if we continue down this road of, or open up the door ...