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Senior Support Fair thanks

Dear Editor, The Belmont County Adult Services Coalition would like to take the opportunity to thank the donors, the Ohio Valley Mall, the media, and everyone who helped make the 22nd Senior Support Fair a success. Special thanks to this year’s co-chairs Tate Blanchard and Stephanie Sauvageot and the Fair Committee, who worked to offer a successful event for the community’s older adults and their caregivers! The Fair’s goal is to offer information that will help older adults and caregivers learn about options and make informed decisions on services and care. Those who need ...

Electoral success

Dear Editor, Normally I don’t respond to critics, but since Dr. Spiker declares my views “nonsense,” I believe I should elaborate on my “winning” views for his enlightenment and for the Belmont County Democratic candidates. First, Dr. Spiker, you should know since you read my views that I advocate for integrity, peace, the Rule of Law, our Constitution and Democracy. Second, due to the fact that our area’s opinion media is very conservative, at least 95% of The Times Leader, The Intelligencer, and the Wheeling News-Register op-ed pages along with the local TV broadcasts ...

The search for real Conservatives

Dear Editor, Calling all Conservatives. The real ones. Not the phonies. Ones whose cornerstone values are the Constitution, the rule of law, and institutions that make those possible. When are you going to take your Party back? Yes, you who used to call yourselves Republican before your brothers and sisters swallowed the Kool-Aid of Putin’s puppet. And you, who still hold onto the Republican label, just because you have no place else to go. A political party without a moral core grounded in reality, not self-delusion, eventually self-destructs. I am no fan of Joe Biden. ...

Had enough?

Dear Editor, To citizens and voters: Are you ready to rid ourselves of Donald Trump and all those who align themselves with him and his ideology? Have you had enough of the lies, the deceit, the immorality, and the shear disregard for our democracy that permits us to live in relative freedom from the Hitlers and Putins of this world? Make no mistake. Folks such as Marjorie Taylor Green, Ted Cruz, Mike McCarthy, and so on are a threat to our security. Our only real defense against these people, unless they have committed crimes, is to vote them out. If they have committed crimes ...

Deer are really bad this year

Dear Editor, If you know what a woman is and you are one, you might want to just skip over this letter and read the next one. You are welcome to read it, but you are not going to find anything here that you don’t already know. It is intended for men. So, gentlemen, it’s that time of year again when we throw the clutter off of our hibernating lawnmower, drag it to the driveway, and proceed to jerk on the pull-cord until we are the verge of fainting. Eventually, if you’re lucky, and after saturating the combustion chamber with some cobweb encrusted can of starting fluid that ...

Advice for the Belmont County Democratic Party

Dear Editor, If the local Democratic party establishment is looking for some advice on how to win a local election this decade, the formula is quite simple in my opinion: Read the submissions to this forum of Bill Bryant and do just the opposite. I believe that the vast majority of local Democrats (not national leaders) understand that local electoral success will require a complete and total rejection of the nonsense that this man espouses. Dr. Kevin Spiker Barnesville