Here's Senator Capito explaining how she will vote later today
There are no surprises
Senator Shelley Moore Capito talked with WV Metro News earlier today about the upcoming impeachment votes.
To no one's surprise, Capito said that she would vote to acquit:
. . .She said in the end, Trump’s phone call with the leader of Ukraine didn’t rise to the level of impeachment and removal from office.
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“Finding Contentment” by plagiarizing
Today's Wheeling papers recycle an old plagiarized column from last October
Today’s editions of our Wheeling “newspapers” include another column from West Virginia University’s Carrie White. The column, “Finding Contentment,” can be found on page 5 of both papers.
Since I discovered plagiarism in two columns by White last year (see here and here), I decided to do a quick search. It didn’t take long to . . .
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Tuesday updates -- West Virginia’s senators on impeachment
Joe Manchin wants witnesses
In an interview this afternoon, Joe Manchin told Fox News that he wants to hear from witnesses:
"I don't know how I go home to West Virginia and explain that I had to make a decision in a trial, the most important thing that I have ever done or will ever do as an elected official, an . . .
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How well do newspapers cover stories that affect their bottom line?
On the posting of public legal notices: Surprise, surprise! Not very well
On page 10 of this morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer is a story by Ogden’s political reporter, Steven Allen Adams. The story
West Virginia Press Association: Public Notice Change Would Lead to Less Transparency
details some of the debate surrounding a House bill that the Judiciary Committee eventually sent to a . . .
Religion and Wheeling City Council
A front-page article
Yesterday’s edition of the Wheeling News-Register covers some of the reactions to the recent letter by the Freedom from Religion Foundation to the Wheeling City Council concerning the prayer at the beginning of its regular meetings. The first is a front-page article by reporter Alan Olson on the controversy. Even . . .
Senator Capito: who is the Navigable Waters Protection Rule protecting?
It certainly doesn't look like consumers
. . .The Navigable Waters Protection Rule is emblematic of @POTUS' insistence on commonsense regs that do not inhibit economic growth & is predicated on a clear reading of Clean Water Act that protects the environment & preserves the role of states in protecting their water resources.
— Shelley Moore Capito (@SenCapito) January 23, 2020
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More hypocrisy from Senator Capito
Is she giving her “undivided attention” and listening “acutely” during the impeachment trial? You be the judge
From Senator Shelley Moore Capito’s op-ed in this morning’s Bluefield Daily Telegraph:
Impeachment is a serious issue that deserves the Senate’s undivided attention, and my colleagues and I intend to treat this process as such and perform our constitutional duty.
But here is Michael McAuliff, political reporter . . .
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