First, what is a crowd? The Google definition of a crowd is a large number of people gathered together in close proximity, sharing a common purpose, interest or space. The crowd can be disorderly. The group is more important than any particular member of the group. The collection of ...
An added agenda item on Tuesday night’s Fairmont City Council meeting agenda ended up being a 45 minute back and forth between council members and staff. This wasn’t the first time there’s been a heated sort of “he said, she said” discussion between the groups at a council meeting, and it probably won’t be the last. The discussion stemmed from an email sent out last week about the purchase of a Vactor truck (sewer cleaner) and whether the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) had the authority to approve of the purchase. Also, it’s important to note that the truck was ...
Conservation and Public Safety Align When Dangerous Dams Are Removed I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, ...
At first, it didn't sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of dollars without anyone seeming to notice? Worse, it appears they didn't seem to care. Vice President JD Vance convened a meeting on Tuesday of his Task ...
Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal ...
Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of "The TheNations." The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith's book, published in 1776, is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of ...
