The Wheeling Alternative

Reading the local Ogden papers on the day after election day

Four Republican constitutional amendments lose and this is their top story?

What was today’s top story in Wheeling, West Virginia? I think most readers who follow local and state politics would quickly answer “the defeat of all four proposed amendments to the West Virginia Constitution.” Why? For starters, the amendments were the handiwork of the West Virginia GOP which pitched hard for their adoption:

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November 09, 2022

Finally getting national attention: On Saturday, the NY Times discussed the increasing partisanship of state secretaries of state in what is supposed to be a non-partisan job

And guess who is featured?

From Saturday's New York Times:

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The article begins with WV Secretary of State Mac Warner’s early praise from his fellow state secretaries. It then explains how that has changed since the 2020 presidential election:

But some of them have been more reluctant to praise him since December 2020, when he climbed . . .

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November 07, 2022

What's Senator Manchin been up to?

Senator Joe says the quiet part out loud

The headline from yesterday’s Business Insider:

Joe Manchin tells CEOs it's 'foolish' for them to give money to political candidates while 'asking nothing in return'

From the article’s bullet point summary:

• Democratic Sen. Joe . . .

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November 04, 2022

Senator Capito and Fox News suddenly go silent on the Halloween fentanyl candy story

What is next for the fearmongers?

On October 11, Senator Capito and Senate Republicans each put out a video hyping the possibility that drug dealers were disguising their fentanyl as candy and giving it to children. “Halloween would be dangerous, this year,” they said. From Capito’s senate website, here’s the senator’s version:

VIDEO: CAPITO, GOP SENATORS . . .

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November 02, 2022

More Colorado problems for Ogden Newspapers

With 11/2 correction

Are some of Ogden’s Colorado papers rigging their search engine’s results?

From Real Vail’s David Williams:

Apparently, if . . .

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November 01, 2022

Gas prices and Senator Shelley Moore Capito

It’s all Bidens fault!

Energy company profits

Yes, profits, profits, and more profits:

. . .

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October 28, 2022

With 2500 more Wheeling Intelligencer words on the Ohio senate race, West Virginians should be well-informed and ready-to-vote

Except . . . .

Last week, the Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer provided us with 800 words on the views of the Ohio Republican candidates for senate, JD Vance, and the Democratic candidate, Tim Ryan. (Additionally, the paper also published 1,800 words on the Ohio gubernatorial race.) Yesterday’s paper gave us 2,500 more words on the Vance/Ryan contest. That’s . . .

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October 25, 2022

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