Bridge pictures, Ohio editorials, but no McKinley
Reading today's Intelligencer
A quick summary of today’s morning "Wheeling" newspaper
The front-page features two stories about bridges with three bridge pictures. The front-section article with the largest headline is
Police: 3 Suspected of Killing Witness at Dallas Cop’s Trial
(Why the big headline, or for that matter, the . . .
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“Leftist” Senator Capito gets a primary challenger who says she’s way too liberal
Note – I am not making this up
From Dave Mistich at West Virginia Public Broadcasting:
The president of a group that opposes abortion rights and LGBTQ protections has announced he is running for U.S. Senate, challenging Republican incumbent Shelley Moore Capito in the May primary election.
The candidate is Allen Whitt, who is current president . . .
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Trump and the Ukraine
Senator Capito and Republicans weigh-in
Capito: still waiting
From Herald-Mail Media, yesterday:
When asked about the controversy involving President Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Ukraine’s president, Capito said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statements in favor of impeachment before any of the supposed evidence surfaced “shows the political . . .
I guess that’s what happens when you increase font size*
The Wheeling Intelligencer prints only the first 219 words of a 1312-word AP story on the Trump impeachment probe
Last evening, the Associated Press reported the day’s activities by Democratic congressmen investigating the president’s actions in the Ukraine and the Trump administration’s, especially Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s, pushback.
Here is the final Intelligencer paragraph in today's significantly-shortened version of that AP . . .
Newspapers on the cheap (again)
Today’s front page of the Wheeling Intelligencer features three pictures of construction equipment* that take-up roughly half of the front page. Two of them are connected to a story about the construction of a home improvement store at the Highlands:
Menards Going Up Fast At The Highlands
Okay, one of . . .
Presidential concerns, "trumped up," and a Capito follow-up
Trump, despite everything going on around him, finds time to tweet his concerns about punctuation
This morning from our president:
To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I . . .
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Capito and Trump
WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito follows the Republican talking points
Yesterday, as numerous media sources pointed out, the Trump administration sent out “talking points” for Republicans to use when asked about the phone conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Here was the first Republican . . .
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