Thumbs Up Council OKs phase two of harvesting The Fairmont City Council approved going ahead with the second phase of a contract with Premier Lake Harvesting for Curly Leaf Pondweed removal and disposal this week. In their report to the board, it was shared that during phase one more than ...
Most times when I'm invited to speak at a conference, someone introduces me by reading the short bio provided. But this past week at the Southeastern Writers' Association Conference, my friend, the Georgia judge and novelist Lori Duff, introduced me. She started off by warning she might ...
It is my guess that just about everybody would prefer to be able to take care of themselves, and not have to rely on other people. Self-sufficiency, independence, self-reliance, confidence in our own abilities and preferring not to ask for help is the idea. Some of us, for a variety of reasons, ...
When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national intelligence is the head of ...
The World Cup is kicking off here in the United States and for the next five weeks, a sport most Americans cannot be bothered to watch will bring the rest of the planet to our doorstep. They are already arriving. Germans, Spaniards, Egyptians, Australians, every continent but Antarctica is ...
Politicians promise they'll "help" us. President Donald Trump says he'll "create the jobs and future you deserve." President Joe Biden liked to say, "Help is on the way." I prefer President Ronald Reagan's: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the ...