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Let’s Shutter Poverty Porn Industry

Poverty porn, to me, is when media outlets come in here looking to exploit our stories by choosing to focus on the most abject circumstances.

Just a Quick Trip?

Getting from Point A to Point B in the Wheeling area has gotten complicated.

Free – and Clean – Water in Paden City

And again, Tonya Shuler and the other “Momma Bears” of Paden City will welcome their desperate neighbors and offer them the lifeline that water is to...

Right at Home Offers ‘Dementia Live’

Thanks to a new partnership between Right at Home and Ohio County Schools, the first class of students at Wheeling Park High School has been introduced...

#RattleTheWindows

"Shame on you. Shame on you and shame on me and shame on each and every one of us who haven't rattled the windows in this building with cries of outrage at a government who believes their office furniture is worthy of $40,000 a year and child and families aren't!"

Truth, Power, and Fat Jokes

This past week I had the opportunity to testify in Congress at a subcommittee meeting by the House Oversight Committee on Oversight and Reform. I had...

The African American Experience in Wheeling

As part of its new “Lunch with Books on The Road” initiative, the Ohio County Public Library will present a Black History Month program...

Jumping Off the Cliff

When you think of the working poor, who pops into your head?

Home Cooking with Jess – Big Game, Big Spread

Every time the Super Bowl comes around again, I hear the stats on how many wings are eaten by Americans on the Sunday of the big game.