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Can Public Schools Last With the Increase in Charter Schools

With all the bickering and inhouse fighting over teaching positions, student transfers, school mergers and consolidation, none of it can compare to the threat public schools now face from Charter schools. A few years ago, all the talk had to do with public vs private, recruiting, ...

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Back in the mid to late 60ás people in the U.S. were protesting by large anything that didn't satisfy their taste. There have almost always been protests of some kind throughout the World, however it now seems as though protesting has taken on a different kind of look. An everyday occurrence ...

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Recently there has been talk in city council meetings and county commission meetings over what to do about low numbers of volunteers to staff local fire departments. Some have suggested pay per call, while others have hinted about paid fire departments or paid chiefs. The same happened back in ...

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Cleaning up the town can become hard work when areas have been neglected for a long time. On a recent trip through Bridgeport, WV it was remarkable how clean the public spaces, parks, schoolyards, sidewalks, playing fields, and even parking lots were. Cleanups show that people who use an ...

The Gas Starts Here!

From Wetzel County, West Virginia to Pittsylvania County Virginia, the Mountain Valley Pipeline will stretch 303 miles to provide domestic natural gas to markets in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. The MVP project offers short-term economic benefits associated with ...

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Each Year on April 28, much of the world observes what may be the most important event for working people, âWorkersá Memorial Dayã a day to remember workers killed, injured, or made ill on the job and to renew the fight for strong safety and health protections.While itás not a national ...

Through the Lens (Baseball Then and Now)

With the arrival of spring comes the sport of baseball. Each year as the last snows of winter melt away high school coaches return with their teams to play a truly American game. Baseball fields that a month ago was cover by winters shadows have warmed in the spring sun. Outfields darkened by ...

Editorial-Join The Rotary And Good Things Happen

Rotary is a global network of 1.4 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in their communities, and in theirselves. For more than 115 years, Rotary's people of action have used ...

The Butterfly Effect or Why You Matter Greg Kozera

The Butterfly Effect is a hypothesis presented to the New York Academy of Science in 1963 by Edward Lorenz. His theory simply stated is; A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules of air-eventually ...

Through the Lens (I Spy, You Spy, Everyone Spy’s)

Growing up in the sixties I knew the Russians were spying on us from behind every tree and from far above. I never stopped to wonder why they wanted to know what we kids were doing on Circle Drive. We never had any secrets, well maybe from our parents, but not the Russians. Heck, I had never ...