The Wheeling Alternative

Which is worse? No supporting evidence or Trump evidence

An anti-Hillary editorial that uses both

Yesterday's Intelligencer editorial, "Reject Clinton Energy Claims," is another in a long line of anti-Clinton editorials and it's use of evidence remains true to Intelligencer form.

No evidence

Take this paragraph for example:

For many families, the cost of government limits on using coal to . . .

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September 30, 2016

Blaming the victims and Obama for what's happened in Flint

An ugly News-Register editorial

This afternoon's News-Register editorial tells us that "Political Stunt Stalls Flood Aid." The editorial blames "ultra-liberals" and Democrats for holding up flood aid to West Virginia. Their crime was that they wanted Flint, Michigan to be part of the aid package. The editorial explains to us that the Republicans . . .

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September 29, 2016

"It's like déjà vu all over again."

- Yogi Berra

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Okay, today's Intelligencer editorial page looks like most Intelligencer editorial pages: it has two anti-Clinton columns, an editorial praising Shelley Moore Capito, and an op-ed piece by Intelligencer favorite Patrick Morrisey. If it looks a bit too familiar, however, there's a reason -- it's the exact same page as . . .

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September 28, 2016

Morrisey watch 20

Another op-ed piece

This morning's Intelligencer published an op-ed piece by Attorney General Morrisey which explains his justification for today's appearance before the U.S. Court of Appeals to fight the Clean Power Plan. (Note -- Morrisey op-ed is not on the Intelligencer site. Link is to the Daily Mail editorial page.) A . . .

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September 27, 2016

Empty promises?

Some additional coverage of Trump's Pittsburgh energy speech

Of course, there were no discouraging words to be found in local reporter and fossil fuel propagandist Casey Junkins' coverage of Donald Trump's speech to the energy conference in Pittsburgh last Thursday. (I wrote about it here.) There were certainly some in the national media, however. Here's a summary of some of those reports.

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September 26, 2016

Odds and ends on a Monday morning

Candidate Doug Reynolds finally gets some local coverage

This morning's Intelligencer had a page 1 story on the Democratic candidate for Attorney General, Doug Reynolds. The article mentioned his background and explained some of his positions. The piece marks the first time this election year that Reynolds has been mentioned, let . . .

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September 26, 2016

Documenting the locals' anti-Clinton agenda 14

Weekend edition

Saturday

After Friday's "Trump: Hillary Waging Costly 'War on Energy' " (see below), Saturday became "attack Hillary/ignore Donald" day. A Google search of potential Clinton and Trump news stories yields numerous AP reports (see the polls below, for instance) that might have been used in Saturday's . . .

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September 25, 2016

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