Who are you going to trust? Jim Justice or the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
Governor Jim Justice just a few minutes ago:
Since day one, my mission has been to put WV on a rocketship ride, and we've done exactly that. We’ve seen over $20B in economic development investments, creating 30,000+ jobs — and we’re not stopping! More goodness to come very, very soon. @WVaChamber https://t.co/JwIdqxW2DG
— Governor Jim . . .
Posted in: jim justicewest virginia economy
Jim “smoke and mirrors” Justice
It is getting difficult to keep up (with update)
I’m sure most of my readers are familiar with Jim Justice’s financial problems. I believe this one is the most recent:
A hotel company owned by the family of West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has been sued by Louisiana Bank after failing to pay back a $35 million pandemic relief loan.https://t.co/xzKGN49tTI
— 7News DC (@7NewsDC) August . . .
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Reading today’s Intelligencer editorial page
Another look at the Wheeling Intelligencer’s “variety of viewpoints”
If the past is any predictor of the future, we are less than three weeks away from the Wheeling Intelligencer’s annual exercise in self-praise -- its anniversary editorial. On August 24, for at least the last decade, the Intelligencer editorial page has printed the same editorial: one that proclaims to its readers that the Intelligencer is a . . .
Keeping up with the WV Trump Party
Easier said than done
WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito
Capito, yesterday, lectured the Democrats on changing the Supreme Court rules:
The Biden-Harris administration didn’t like how some of the #SCOTUS cases were decided, so their solution is to change the rules.
That’s not strengthening democracy or protecting the rule of law. . . .
Manchin: Pay attention to me!!! (with 7/22 update)
Hey, Joe: I thought you left the Democratic Party
"I will not be ignored!"
Just now, from independent (meaning no longer Democrat) Joe Manchin:
Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia independent, says he's considering re-registering as a Democrat and running for president, sources say.
— CNN (@CNN) July . . .
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How’s that West Virginia economy doing?
A look at CNBC's “Best States” and other recent economic surveys
Since 2007, business channel CNBC has compiled, using various economic indicators, a “best states for business” survey. Over the years, I’ve followed that survey and when I began blogging in 2014, I started summarizing the state’s rankings to see how the rankings changed as the state’s politics swung from conservative Democratic to . . .
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From bad to worse?
Updating the continuing decline of the Monday Wheeling Intelligencer
The front page
Today’s top story:
New Speech Therapy Device at WLU Is ‘Lighting the Way’
This top-of-the-page article is about West Liberty University’s Speech and Hearing Behavioral Health Clinic acquiring a rehabilitation device to aid its work with speech therapy and dementia patients. It is an . . .
