The Wheeling Alternative
The good news and the bad news about retiring in West Virginia
It's cheap but don't get sick
Bankrate recently published its annual survey of the "The best and worst states to retire in 2023, ranked." West Virginia finished third overall, including a #1 in "affordability." The bad news was that it finished 50th in "quality, cost of health care." Here is the top ten:
Bankrate's . . .
Posted in: west virginia health care
Labor Day odds and ends
Some thoughts on Burning Man
A good point:
All those Tarot cards and not one person at Burning Man saw this coming.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) September 3, 2023
A stamp on the Stamp Act
One of my favorite government moments. The USPS puts out a stamp for sale celebrating the repeal of an act requiring...a stamp. . . .
Posted in: labor day
WV politics
Polls, Justice, and Manchin
New WV poll just out
For the Republican governor nomination:
WV GOV GOP (MetroNews West Virginia Poll): St Del Moore Capito 32%, Atty Gen Patrick Morrisey 23%, auto dealer Chris Miller 9%, Sec of State Mac Warner 7%
— Politics1.com (@Politics1com) September 1, 2023
Morrisey is stunned:
“Any poll which shows . . .
Posted in: 2024 wv election2024 wv senate racealex mooneyjim justicejoe manchinmac warnerpatrick morrisey
Right wing extremists gathered in Las Vegas last weekend and guess which WV state official was a featured speaker?
(Don’t bother looking to West Virginia media to find out)
The event:
Lollapalooza, but in hell pic.twitter.com/BYbg8KPWgW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 27, 2023
This is how the Religious News Network described it:
Starting today (Aug. 25) in North Las Vegas, disgraced former General Michael Flynn and Eric Trump, son of the former president, will headline a lineup of . . .
Posted in: mac warnerwv trump party
A look at West Virginia’s “Best Editorial Page” as The Wheeling Intelligencer celebrates an anniversary
August 24 and August 25 are probably the two most predictable days on this blogger’s calendar. I’m in my tenth year of blogging and often I write about Wheeling’s two Ogden newspapers, the Intelligencer and the News-Register. And while headlines and stories certainly change from day to day, the Wheeling Intelligencer’s August 24 editorial . . .
Posted in: fair and balancedogden favoriteogden newspaper biaswheeling intelligencerwheeling intelligencer editorialwv awards
Multiple looks at the WVU debacle
Off and on, I have been working on a longer post about how West Virginia's population (especially among its younger citizens) will continue to decline and the consequences it will have for the state. I'll get back to it, but for now, I'll note how WVU's president, E. Gordon Gee, has recently made a major contribution to that . . .
Posted in: gordon geewest virginia university
A quick read of this weekend’s Wheeling News-Register opinion pages
Editorial: local Ohio counties “no longer have a voice”?
This may be the dumbest editorial I’ve read in the 9+ years of doing this blog. (And, trust me, that takes in a lot of lousy editorials.) Under the title, “Quick Look at Issue 1 Results,” the Wheeling News-Record tells us what the Ohio’s vote on Amendment 1 demonstrates:
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