Reading the front page of the Wheeling Intelligencer on a holiday
Can we find anything newsworthy?
The Bransfield story and yesterday’s Washington Post story
This morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer featured Ogden reporter Steven Allen Adams’ report on Ogden-favorite and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s ongoing battle with the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. If you look toward the end of the Morrisey coverage, . . .
Washington Post publishes a new investigative report on the Catholic Church’s failure to investigate Bransfield
Tomorrow’s edition of the Washington Post will again feature a long investigative piece on former Wheeling-Charleston bishop Michael J. Bransfield:
Warnings about West Virginia bishop went unheeded as he doled out cash gifts to Catholic leaders
The article is by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg, and it . . .
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The decline of the American newspaper continues – the Youngstown Vindicator to cease publication in August
Is Ogden a potential buyer?
On Friday, the Youngstown Vindicator announced that it was shutting down operations at the end of August. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported:
The Vindicator, which recently marked its 150th publication anniversary and is Youngstown’s only daily newspaper, told employees Friday afternoon that it will close. . . .
A source . . .
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Abuse of a corpse?
The attacks on Robert Byrd’s legacy enter yet another election cycle
You don’t have to live that long to regret things you said or did earlier in your life and former West Virginia Senator Robert C. Byrd lived to be ninety-two. When he was young, Byrd was active in the Ku Klux Klan -- something that he told CNN in 1993 was his biggest mistake:
It’s easy to state what has been my biggest . . .
Updates on recent stories of local interest
Action in the Wheeling Hospital lawsuit, the hospital’s recent Medicare ratings (one star), and the China-West Virginia energy deal
Wheeling Hospital
Kickback case moved to West Virginia
Three months ago, the United States Department of Justice joined a lawsuit against Wheeling Hospital alleging that the hospital had improperly paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to doctors. As Health Leaders wrote at the time:
Federal prosecutors have . . .
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Giving credit where credit isn’t due
A look at this week’s Wheeling Intelligencer editorial in support of Senator Capito’s re-election campaign
Last Monday, the Wheeling Intelligencer editorial praised West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito for her bipartisanship. The editorial cited the Lugar Bipartisan Index which placed Capito seventh among all senators serving since 2003*.
Today's Intelligencer’s editorial wants to give credit to Senator Capito for the passing of . . .
West Virginia Republican intolerance strikes again (with evening update)
Yesterday, the Parkersburg News and Sentinel published an op-ed by West Virginia state senator Mike Azinger (R – Wood). The piece is entitled “The Shame of LBGTQ Pride” and it begins:
One of my recent Facebook posts was a quote from the late Presbyterian preacher D. James Kennedy: “Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved . . .
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