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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Mike Myer’s Saturday column is supposed to be about “clean coal” – it’s really about getting Trump re-elected
When in doubt, blame Obama
In his Saturday opinion column about “clean coal,” local Ogden editor Mike Myer begins by rewriting the history of the Obama administration’s “clean coal” initiatives:
What angered many Americans about former President Barack Obama’s war on coal was that it was intended as a campaign of . . .
The planet be damned
EPA administrator and former Murray Energy lobbyist Andrew Wheeler continues his work for the coal industry (with UPDATE)
(Note -- this post was originally published on Tuesday but the notice to subscribers has apparently just gone out today (Thursday) at 9:19 AM.)
Here's the headline from the Washington Post earlier today:
Trump EPA finalizes rollback of key Obama climate rule that targeted coal plants
It begins:
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“News sure travels slowly in these here parts”
The Wheeling Intelligencer once again demonstrates its commitment to bringing us the news in a timely manner
Covering Wheeling Heritage's renewal
At the top of the front page of this morning's Wheeling Intelligencer is this headline:
National Parks Service: Wheeling Heritage Re-Authorized
Reporter Joselyn King tells us:
The National Parks Service deemed Wheeling Heritage worthy of continued . . .
This is why incumbents seldom lose
WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito demonstrates that small market media will accept anything for filler
Free television exposure
Politicians know that if you give small-market TV stations (the only kind found in West Virginia) any material (as Representative McKinley has frequently demonstrated, the news requirement of timeliness is frequently waved), the station will run it. This time it’s Senator Shelley Moore Capito talking about . . .
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