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Introducing Heartland’s new style for 2012
Dear Reader, You may have noticed a few changes in the look and ‘feel’ of the newspaper you are holding, and I certainly hope you like what you see. The redesign of our four Ohio Valley publications, which include the Gallipolis Daily Tribune, the Daily Sentinel, the Point Pleasant Register and the Sunday Times-Sentinel, has been a work in progress for some time, as Heartland Publications team members from newspapers across the U.S. — inclu...
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Author challenges community to rally for youth
Dear Community Member: The Gallia-Jackson Mentoring Project would like to challenge you to be part of the life of a child that needs you. The Gallia-Jackson Mentoring Project was established in 1997 through Family Addiction Community Treatment Services, also known as FACTS/New Alternatives. Our goal is to provide youth a positive role model in their life. Since 1997, the project has successfully served the community and a large number of ...
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Marijuana as medicine: Putting public health and safety first
Marijuana should be subject to the same research, consideration and study as any other potential medicine, under the standards of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Legalizing marijuana for medical use should not be decided by legislative or voter initiative. Efforts to legalize marijuana as medicine in the United States have grown significantly in recent years. Ap­proximately one-fourth of the states have passed legislation or ba...
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How to fix distrust in government
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll had bad news for Congress, whose support is down to single digits. But it had even worse news for the Republic. Americans’ distrust of government, the pollsters found, is “at its highest level ever.” A lot of this ire is focused on Congress, which an overwhelming majority believe is incapable of acting on behalf of the nation as a whole, but it has come to take in all of Washington. The poll’s finding...
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Former reporter mulls changes to newspaper biz
I recall reading with some interest Stephanie Filson’s editorial a couple of weeks ago on changes taking place in the newspaper business, particularly the Ohio Valley Publishing Company newspapers. Although it has only been a dozen or so years ago since I last worked for the newspaper, seeing all the changes that have taken place in the newspaper industry it seems like a lifetime ago. It wasn’t exactly the Stone Age – we did have computers ...
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Aiding in the fight against breast cancer
The brown and orange colors of October are all around us, but you can also find a lot of pink to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Whether it is found on products, posters or in commercials, the color serves as a great reminder of how we must continue the fight to find a cure for this disease. Many Relay for Life teams and student athletes in the area have been raising money for the cure. I was able to attend an event called the Spielman ...
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Bullying? Not on my watch!
By Todd Patkin FOXBORO, MA — Every few months, it seems, there’s another headline about the death of a child or teen as the result of bullying. That’s terrifying, and it’s also unacceptable. To some extent we expect to hear about economic woes, political strife, and natural disasters. We don’t expect to hear about the premature (and preventable) deaths of our young people. And we shouldn’t have to. According to Todd Patkin, it’s past time f...
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Life-at-fertilization initiative has hope in Miss.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A national effort to put abortion bans into state constitutions is looking for its first victory next month in Mississippi, where voters are being asked to approve an amendment declaring that life begins when a human egg is fertilized. Supporters hope the so-called personhood initiative will succeed in a Bible Belt state that already has some of the nation’s toughest abortion regulations and only a single clinic where ...
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Analysis:
GOP contenders turn fire on each other
By Charles Babington Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican presidential candidates tore into each other as never before in their latest debate, mindful that voting starts within 11 weeks and many GOP voters remain up for grabs. Mitt Romney emerged from the two-hour forum Tuesday night still the person to beat, but he was considerably scratched up on the issues of illegal immigration, health care and jobs. The feisty faceof...
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Lazarus Project Q & A
The following is an interview with Dr. Dan Black, a long-time , board certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialist at Holzer Clinic. Dr. Black is helping to coordinate a featured event on the impact of prescription drug abuse in rural America. Q. An Important event is coming up this Thursday at 7 p.m. at Bob Evans Hall at the University of Rio Grande, featuring a discussion by a national expert on drug addiction in rural Am...
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Depth needed in news coverage of Wall Street
Nate Silver’s analysis of news coverage of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations shows how clashes with police have increased media attention to the movement. Silver presented evidence in his October 7 New York Times piece that after each major confrontation with police American media increased the number of articles devoted to the movement. For example, when nonviolent Occupy Wall Street protestors were maced, news stories jumped. When more ...
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Protesters want world to know they’re just like us
NEW YORK (AP) — As other protesters chanted vigorously around her, Nancy Pi-Sunyer stood off to the side at the Occupy Wall Street rally, clutching her sign, looking a little like a new teacher on the first day of school. In a way, she was: At 66, this retired teacher was joining a protest for the first time in her life. “I was too young for the civil rights movement,” Pi-Sunyer said earlier this week as she joined thousands of protesters...
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iTunes great for Apple, but was it for music biz?
NEW YORK (AP) — When Apple rolled out iTunes for the masses in the spring of 2003, the music industry was at a point of transition — and chaos. Entering the new millennium, albums were enjoying blockbuster sales of several million units for its superstar artists, and profits were booming. Yet the threat of Napster and other forms of illegal downloading threatened to eviscerate those profits as many music fans were starting to get used to th...
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A fall legislative update
COLUMBUS — With the House of Representatives back in session, we have recently dealt with topics such as congressional redistricting and other headline-grabbing issues, but there are many other bills being considered that do not garner that much attention. Regardless, I thought I would share some of them with you. House Bill 218, sponsored by Representative Jay Hottinger, updates Ohio law to match current federal guidelines concerning off-lab...
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Issue Three about freedom, Tea Party says
POMEROY — Terri Blackwood discussed the three statewide issues which will be on the November ballot with emphasis on Issue Three at Tuesday night’ s meeting of the Tea Party held at the Mulberry Community Center. Her emphasis was on Issue Three which is a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would free Ohioans from forced insurance. The ballot says the amendment is to “preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care an...
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