Some comments on last night's WV Republican gubernatorial debate
(A confession: I did not watch last evening’s Republican gubernatorial debate - I knew that I would be watching the Pittsburgh Steelers later and that would be more than enough masochism for one evening.)
Some debate coverage from around the Web
WV Metro’s coverage
.@BradMcElhinny with full report, including video, of . . .
More on the Republican war on higher education
Bill Johnson at Youngstown State
Last Friday, the soon-to-be president of Youngstown State University, Representative Bill Johnson, held a press conference about his appointment. Yesterday, the Wheeling Intelligencer carried a report of the conference filed by Ogden’s Youngstown Vindicator reporter, David Skolnick.
The news . . .
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It’s all Biden’s fault!
A look at today's Wheeling Intelligencer editorial page
Today’s Wheeling Intelligencer editorial praises the American economy and its low unemployment rate which is currently 3.9%. It then contrasts this rate with 2020:
Three years ago, during the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation’s unemployment rate was 6.9%. Just six months earlier at the beginning of COVID-19, it was . . .
Posted in: alex mooneyjoe bidenogden bias
Politicians as university presidents?
A look at Ohio's Bill Johnson and West Virginia's Robin Capehart
Bill Johnson
In yesterday’s Ohio Capitol Journal:
Commentary: Everything about the YSU Board of Trustees' opaque maneuvers to quickly install right wing Trump apparatchik and notorious election denier Bill Johnson as the university’s 10th president is appalling.
— Ohio Capital Journal . . .
By @JohanekMarilou https://t.co/GgHa8PoGPV
Posted in: bill johnsonrobin capehart
Keeping up with WV’s Trump Party
Riley Moore (Congressional District 2 candidate)
Here’s Moore working as Trump’s hit man going after Trump’s perceived enemies on rightwing media:
Looking forward to joining @OANN to discuss Nikki Haley’s alarming connections to the ESG movement and BlackRock! https://t.co/A4L83JhkcO
— Riley Moore (@RileyMooreWV) November 18, 2023 . . .
How others see us
PBS does Steubenville, Ohio
On Thursday evening, the PBS News Hour aired a ten minute segment on Steubenville, Ohio narrated by Judy Woodruff:
Steubenville, Ohio, was once a powerhouse of American manufacturing. But like many communities that depended on the steel industry, it has struggled to find its place in the modern economy as the country as a whole . . .
Politicians running the university?
Doesn’t higher education have enough problems?
Congressman Bill Johnson to Youngstown State University?
Here is the front-page headline from this morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer:
Johnson Offered Top Post At YSU
When I first saw the headline, I wondered who “Johnson” might be. Imagine my surprise when I read further -- it was local Ohio congressman . . .
