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WV Attorney General Morrisey to run for Senate
The Charleston Gazette-Mail is reporting that Patrick Morrisey will be running for senate:
Morrisey, who is scheduled to appear at a rally in Harper’s Ferry on Monday evening, said he is running to forward conservative values such as rolling back environmental protections, . . .
Posted in: evan jenkinspatrick morrisey
According to the Sunday News-Register -- nothing happened in the world yesterday or Friday
Our Sunday "newspaper" continues its mission of providing no or low information for the uninformed
If you go to Kiosko.net and look at the front page of today's major U.S. newspapers, you'd probably conclude that no one story dominates the news. However, most of the five newspapers featured at the top of the site dedicated major space to the following stories:
- President Trump's attendance at the G-20 Summit
- . . .
Posted in: wheeling news-register
Who recently said that clean coal is "neither practical or economic"?
A two-question quiz
Here's a more complete version of the quote, from E & E News (Environment and Energy News) last Friday:
Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It's a pseudonym for 'no coal '. . . . It is neither practical nor economic, carbon capture and sequestration. It is just cover for the politicians, . . .
Posted in: clean coalrobert murray
Rep. David McKinley's busy Fourth of July and his unchallenged thoughts on Medicaid/health care
Representative McKinley speaks to a huge throng at Palantine Park
(photo credit -- Mountaineers for Progress via The Daily Anthenaeum)
From Douglas Soule in yesterday's online edition of West Virginia University's student newspaper, The Daily Anthenaeum:
Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., visited . . .
Posted in: david mckinleyshelley moore capitotrumpcare
News from the front lines of the war on coal
Dealing with the reliability of alternative energy sources
Despite the fact that the price of natural gas and alternatives has been dropping for a number of years, our local "newspapers" have consistently argued (usually without evidence) that coal is still the cheapest way to produce electricity. The locals have stuck with . . .
Posted in: clean coalwar on coal
Skewing Sinclair Broadcasting
John Oliver strikes again!
In May, I wrote about Sinclair Broadcasting's growth in local television news. (See here and here.) Early that month, Sinclair bought Tribune Media for $4 billion making it America's largest local television station owner and it will soon be capable of reaching 70% of America. (WTOV, Channel 9 in Steubenville, is one of its stations.) . . .
Posted in: john oliversinclair broadcasting
Coming clean on "clean coal"
Into denial, it's something Wheeling "newspapers" refuse to do
Yesterday's editorial in the News-Register, "Get Coal Back In Energy Mix," begins by praising President Trump for his efforts to wipe-out Obama's actions on the environment:
He is working energetically to win half the battle on that. He is rolling back illogical Obama-administration rules that were intended to . . .
