On New Year’s Eve, I was fixing dinner when I heard sirens. I didn’t think much about it because it’s a common occurrence to hear them around these parts.
Ben Seidler announced his intentions of running to represent Wheeling’s Ward 2 much more than a year ago, and that’s because he was exhausted with his own fights about neighboring properties to his Wheeling Island homestead.
Unmarked and anonymous is how these letters have arrived to council members and private citizens, and although the notes have been composed in a discombobulated style, the intent to damage the city and personal reputations is clear to comprehend.
It must feel like sitting on a giant egg for council members and the mayor of Moundsville while they impatiently wait for what has been referred to as a probable hatching of an industrial reinvention of the Upper Ohio Valley.
We are annually met with the State of the Union and the State of the State addresses, and, at least for us here in West Virginia, they're always delivered by men. But what if we hosted a State of the Working Mom address? What would that look like?