Government is supposed to work for us, when are they going to start? The people need to speak up and send letters to their congressmen and senators. Our government was elected to work for us, when are ...

You write to your elected officials about real concerns, and what comes back? A canned letter on some unrelated topic, filled with self-praise about how proud they are to represent you, while your ...

The public library is overstaffed and overpaid. We are paying for DMC for Mayo. The superintendent and school board gave themselves a raise. Three of our city council and the mayor want to give ...

Let’s face it: The Parkersburg City government is broken. Our population is dwindling and has been for decades. Our city council is ineffective, having not accomplished anything of significance in ...

The government shutdown could be resolved easily. Step 1: If the government is shut down, pay for members of Congress is the first to be stopped. If they can’t do their job, why should they get paid?

As American citizens, what is expected of us? And what should we expect from our government while we live our day-to-day routines? Paramount is to be a law-abiding citizen by obeying federal, state ...

Our government is starting to reflect “The Hunger Games.” While the wealthy are having balls, citizens are going hungry. Letters: Fight over gate raises questions of government service Letters: Wealth ...

When traveling in an earlier life across Africa, the Middle East, South America and Eastern Europe, I always tried to leave the locals with a better impression of an American. But, in political ...

If everybody is right and no one is wrong, you might have just found yourself in the halls of Congress. Elections have boiled down to a collection of charismatic caricatures capturing our attention ...

As I sit here trying to decide how to compose this letter about the state of our country and the actions of the Trump administration, it is hard to know where to start. Do you begin with the fact that ...

"The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know." Washington State Open Meetings ...

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