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What's Senator Joe been doing?

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Explaining his vote (the only Democratic one) for Jeff Sessions

According to Market Watch:

"It’s more what we know about a person than what people say about a person. . . . I have not seen the things he’s been accused of or people talked about."

Specifically on the matter of Session’s . . .

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February 20, 2017

Trump signing ends the Stream Protection Rule

Does this action really protect jobs?

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On Thursday, President Donald Trump killed a rule, the Stream Protection Rule, designed to protect America's waterways from the excesses of coal mining. In signing the legislation, the president said this action

will eliminate another terrible job-killing rule, saving many thousands of American jobs, especially in . . .

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February 18, 2017

The News-Register rewrites recent history

Mike Flynn broke no laws and Mike Pence is a major reason why Trump won the election

From Friday afternoon's News-Register editorial:

It does not appear Flynn broke any laws in talking with diplomat about U.S. sanctions had not come up in the talks.

Some other news sources would beg to differ. Here's the Washington Post:

In conveying that message, Flynn may have broken a law . . .

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February 17, 2017

Playing games with statistics

Another pro-coal editorial

This morning's editorial, "Paying Price for Assault on Coal," joins the long list of previous war-on-coal opinion pieces. Unlike a number of these editorials, however, this one cites some statistics beyond the usual "$1000 electric bills" that is sometimes used to support the editorial's points. Unfortunately, the . . .

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February 15, 2017

Karma, anyone?

Lt. Gen Michael Flynn at the Republican Convention leading the crowd in "lock her up"

Given Flynn's illegal actions, I'm sure our local "newspapers" will immediately call for swift punishment for, as yesterday's editorial that referenced Hillary Clinton put it, "behavior that was illegal and damaging to national security." Just kidding.

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February 14, 2017

Cheerleading for the president

The Intelligencer defends Kellyanne Conway

This morning's Intelligencer editorial, "Let's Put Conway Slip in Perspective," demonstrates how far the locals are willing to go to defend the Trump administration. Never mind that our local papers have had nothing to say about Kellyanne Conway's assertion that the Trump administration should be allowed " . . .

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February 13, 2017

WV fracking news not being covered locally

Here are a couple of fracking stories found in some of the state's newspapers.

Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) gets rid of nuisance protection

Ken Ward Jr. reports in this morning's Charleston Gazette-Mail:

Less than two weeks after taking office, Gov. Jim Justice’s administration quietly . . .

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February 12, 2017

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