Arming teachers: Ohio’s new law awaits the governor’s signature
This is not how we solve the school shooting problem
From the Ohio Capital Journal:
. . .Republican state lawmakers sent a bill to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday that empowers local boards of education to allow teachers to carry a gun in the classroom. DeWine says he will sign the bill.
— Ohio Capital Journal (@OhioCapJournal) June 2, 2022
By @jake_zuckerman https://t.co/9T1dNjnv86
A last look at the race for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio
Our local Ogden outlets give us editorials on Ohio State Park Week but nothing on the election
Latest polling
It looks like Trump's endorsement of J.D. Vance may have made a difference. Here’s the most recent poll:
OHIO
If the Ohio Republican primary election for U.S. senator were held today ...
J.D. Vance 23%
Josh Mandel 18%
Mike Gibbons 13%
Matt Dolan 11%
Jane Timken 6%
Neil Patel 1%
Mark Pukita 1%
Wouldn't vote (vol.) 1%
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Hey Intelligencer, instead of publishing month-old Ohio editorials, why not keep us up to date with Ohio’s Republican senatorial primary?
Racism, Trump-worship, and endless clichés
The candidates
JD Vance
So yesterday, we learned that Mexicans caused his mother’s addiction:
Are you a racist? pic.twitter.com/Fdknxld39i
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) April 5, 2022
To quote J.D. Vance: Are you a racist?
And this is how other countries judge us?
JD Vance: "A lot of countries look at . . .
What's happening in the various Ohio Republican primary elections?
The Wheeling Intelligencer gives us a near-daily diet of recycled, months-old Ohio editorials but ignores the good stuff: Ohio's Republican primaries
From Friday's Republican debate for the U.S. Senate nomination, here are the two frontrunners, Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons doing more than debating:
This is not an episode of Jerry Springer. It’s tonight’s Ohio Republican Senate debate.
“You’re dealing with the wrong guy,” Mandel says to Gibbons before calling him a “pussy.” . . .
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Paging Dr. Freud
A look at Jane Timken's ad to win the Ohio Republican Senate nomination
Jane Timken's most recent Ohio Primary ad:
We all know guys who overcompensate for their inadequacies, and that description fits the guys in the Senate race to a T.
— Jane Timken (@JaneTimkenOH) February 18, 2022
I’m different. I’m the MAGA conservative with a backbone. WATCH my new ad below: pic.twitter.com/EEzqaYToPa
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Is this the worst Wheeling Intelligencer editorial ever? (with 11/3 update)
That’s a high bar but today’s editorial on Ohio’s Keith Faber deserves some consideration for that honor
This morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer editorial tells us:
Faber Serves Ohio Well
As it is written, the editorial makes little sense
“Faber” is Keith Faber, Auditor for the state of Ohio. However, the first two-thirds of the editorial is about Kathleen McGuiness, Faber's counterpart in Deleware, who . . .
Ohio odds and ends
Because you probably don’t get enough of them from our Wheeling, West Virginia paper
Today’s Wheeling Intelligencer had its usual Monday editorial on Ohio state government – this one dealt with that state’s budget for the next year. (Not to be undone, the afternoon paper had a similar editorial.) (Look for a Jefferson County garbage dump editorial later this week.) The paper also featured a story that (with picture) took-up . . .
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