I had never heard of Chicago suburb Fox Lake police officer Joe Gliniewicz. Recently, three men murdered him. Sadly I now know about what a great man, and police officer he was. Read more
This is the time of year that many parents send their children off to college with the hope that they will learn, mature, become independent, have a great collegiate experience, but most of all, with the hope that their children will be safe. Read more
In the field in which I teach, Peace and Conflict Studies, we examine alternatives to violence or the threat of violence in the management of conflict. We are a transdisciplinary field, that is, we don't only draw from an interdisciplinary set of research findings--e.g. Anthropology, Economics, Education, History, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology--but we do so with certain provisos. Read more
Several developments in China over the past few weeks have shown us a country quite different from the one often portrayed by outsiders—an emerging superpower, with global economic reach and ambitions to challenge American predominance, at least in Asia. Read more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Billionaire Democrat candidate Jim Justice is at the taxpayer trough again. This time, it's for millions more in tax credits for his Greenbrier resort and casino. You'd assume the richest man in the state didn't need much help. Read more
When she was a little girl with a Dora the Explorer haircut, I'd check under the bed and protect her from monsters. Now, when I come home from work and she is sprawled across the living room sofa, I pull her long black hair back and make sure she is still breathing.
At 23, she is battling demons from which I can't save her. As the tracks on her arms have grown deeper than my denial, I finally understand that my little girl is going to die.Read more
The 2012 Transform Now Plowshares anti-nuclear action made the “Fort Knox” of weapons-grade uranium look like “F Troop.” Three senior peace activists got through four chain-link fences and past multiple “lethal force” zones before stringing banners, spray-painting slogans and pouring blood on the Highly-Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee – all without being noticed by guards. Read more
A young man was found overdosed on heroin, with the needle still in his arm on Monday evening. It was a sad end to a young tortured soul that many knew and many tried to help.
TS was a familiar face to many in the downtown Huntington area. Although he was raised in Proctorville, he moved to Huntington after his mother died and he died homeless in a vacant house on 5th Avenue and 13th Street. Read more
I know Alligator Jackson is not the guy you expect to hear good news from and I've got to admit that I get more excited over a potential David Ball - Tom McAllister out front of City Hall than I do more positive stories. But over the last few weeks, there has been so many positive news stories developing around Huntington that even ol' gator has to take notice. There's been plenty of entertainment around the Tri-State this summer and local residents have made these events a success. Read more
With no assistance from the major media, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is drawing larger crowds than any candidate currently running for anything in the US. The largest crowd to date was in my town, Portland, Oregon, this past week. More than 28,000 showed up to hear a skinny 73-year-old white-haired curmudgeon rant and promise.
He also had a secret weapon he unveiled to great effect. Read more
Last September (2014), I rode around Huntington with Nick Verbitsky, a producer for PBS' Frontline documentary show and owner of Blue Chip Films. Mr. Verbitsky was working on a show for Frontline about Oxycontin and insurance fraud. He had read several of my blogs and articles about Huntington's drug epidemic. Nick interviewed me about what I had written about Huntington and I gave him a tour of the drug areas of Huntington. Read more
“Representatives of the nations of earth, I greet you in the name of the Local Group Intergalactic Council. As your Hubble telescope has told you, the Local Group, 10 million light years across, comprises about 30 galaxies, your own Milky Way being the largest. Read more
It could be an ideal mate. It could be the dream house you’ve been fantasizing about for years. It could be a miracle cure for a sickness that you thought was going to toll your last bell. Read more
John Adams once coined a phrase which perhaps best personifies the American form of order: “A government of laws, and not of men.” His meaning behind this phrase was quite clear. Laws should be broad, they should apply to everyone, and they should never be arbitrarily applied to citizens by the various whims or the different ‘feelings’ of the officials in government, charged with their enforcement. In other words, everyone should be equal under the law, and justice must be blind.Read more
In an interview for Rolling Stone, singer Bob Dylan said, “[The U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima] showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible, whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don’t have to do that anymore.” Read more
The recent shooting of a protected Zimbabwean lion named Cecil by an American dentist who likes to hunt big game with a crossbow has caused outrage around the world, to the surprise of many, including – we can only imagine – the former dentist. It has brought attention to the plight of endangered animals in Africa, but it also raises a number of questions. Read more
Oh plaintive cry for justice, for change, for the world we must create, welling up from a tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean. I can only pray: Let there be an authority large enough to hear it. Read more
Chinese authorities seized more than 881 pounds of baby milk formula that had been imported from Japan because it had been produced in areas known to be heavily contaminated with radioactive material emitted by three damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi complex. China’s Xinhua news agency reported that quarantine officials said that no excessive radioactive material was found in the formula, but the baby food was sent back to Japan because China has had a ban on any imports from the areas around Fukushima.Read more
What do numerous privacy groups, civil liberties organizations, open government advocates, free market proponents, technologists, and the Department of Homeland Security have in common? Deep concern about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or “CISA,” a bill expected to come to a vote this week in the Senate. Read more
Two days. Two bombs. More than 200,000 men, women, and children incinerated and poisoned. It has been 70 years since the United States military dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This August 6th and 9th citizens around the world will gather to remember--and to renew their efforts in working toward nuclear disarmament. Read more
A second round of peace talks between Afghan government officials and Taliban representatives, expected to begin before the end of July 2015, suggests that some parties to the fighting want to declare a cease-fire. But even in the short time since the first round of talks were completed on July 7, fighting has intensified. The Taliban, the Afghan government forces, various militias and the U.S. have ramped up attacks all across Afghanistan.Read more
The workers’ rights movement has exploded in the last few years, with fast food, agricultural and other workers staging strikes and other nonviolent actions to demand increased wages, benefits, and better working conditions. One group of workers that has received far too little attention is adjunct college professors. Read more
The construction of the Great American Tower in Cincinnati, Ohio , by ironworkers i.e. Men of Iron. Courtesy You Tube/Cincinnati.com
Imagine this... here!
by Austin Sanders
Huntington is the seed of a metropolitan area that is home to over a quarter of a million people. Our city is home to world-class museums, theaters, parks, and people. There is no question; Huntington is truly a city of excellence. Read more
At 10 a.m. on Friday, July 10, Steve Beshear, Democratic governor of Kentucky, officially opened a traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall in Lexington. At precisely the same time, Nikki Barber, Republican governor of South Carolina, presided at the lowering of the Confederate flag. The juxtaposition is coincidental, but the intense emotions enveloping the aftermath of two lost causes are not, despite the 150 years and 8,000 miles separating them.Read more
We are today 70 years out from the fateful interregnum period between the world’s first atomic bomb explosion—the test fire Trinity at Alamogordo, New Mexico on 16 July 1945—and the world’s first atomic bomb attack—on a bright sunny morning of 6 August 1945 when one bomb incinerated tens of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima. Read more
Over the last several years, a surprising number of high-ranking military officers have been investigated, punished or fired over conduct unbecoming, sexual harassment, sexual violence, retaliation against subordinates, recruiting fraud and financial improprieties. In 2014, a Pentagon study found that reports of rapes and sexual assaults in the military increased eight percent, and this came on the heels of a 50 percent increase in reported rapes and sexual assaults in 2013.Read more
by Diane D'Arrigo Radioactive Waste Project Director Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Nuclear power generates more than 95% of the radioactivity buried at commercial radioactive waste dumps in the U.S. Some of that waste stays dangerous for literally millions of years.Read more
“The human capacity to ‘live in truth,’ . . . is the nuclear weapon that gives power to the powerless.”
—Michael Zantovsky, writing about Vaclav Havel
I’m not an expert, just another interested citizen who follows the news, but something genuinely bothers me about the U.S. negotiations with Iran, whether they are ultimately successful or not.
In public addresses, President Obama assures the American people that the U.S. military command is greater than any other in the world. One must wonder if he is aware that the U.S. has not won a war since 1945, as historian Andrew Bacevich notes. Since the Vietnam War, policy makers and military commands responsible for U.S. interventions have not quite lived up to the president's billing. Read more
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the "opinion" of Councilman Caserta, who under the First Amendment of the US and WV Constitutions has the right to express his perspective. It includes a timeline for events that followed his questioning of an alleged "mistake" by Mayor Steve Williams. Caserta sought an opinion outside of the city itself. HNN takes no position, except to restate a policy that allows a free flow of information and discussion of differing opinions.
On Thursday's [Herald Dispatch] Opinion page my brother, Mark Caserta who is a regular contributor to the HD decided to "weigh in" on my allegations against Mayor Steve Williams. I have heard many comments regarding this article, many having to do with a bus and me inspecting the undercarriage. My brother's article caused me to pause a moment and wonder, if "he" doesn't get it, do you? Well, let's leave no doubt.Read more
In Fayette County, leukemia and other cancers are among the highest in the nation. Fayette County also has long been used as an industrial waste dump.Read more
“The existence of the approximately 14,000 photographs will probably cause yet another delay in the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as attorneys for the defendants demand that all the images are turned over and the government wades through the material to decide what it thinks is relevant to the proceedings.”Read more
One of the curious things about the campaign in Portsmouth in 2011 to change back to the manager-council form of government was the role played by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), which, though I did not know of its existence at the time, I now view as a somewhat stealthy and deceptive organization, a wolf in sheep's clothing, if not worse.Read more
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