Same story, different emphasis: A tale of two papers
Should the emphasize be on investment and jobs or Narcissistic Joe?
(Note -- we've had some problems with the RSS notification feed. It now appears to be working. This article, like the previous one, was written yesterday and refers to that day's editions.)
Which is more important? Toyota to invest $240 million in WV or Joe Manchin upset that the proposed Build Back Better gives a tax break . . .
WV Republican propaganda passing as news in the Wheeling Intelligencer (case #798)
From the front page of today’s Wheeling Intelligencer, here is the headline on a story about West Virginia’s Republican Secretary of State, Mac Warner:
Warner Seeks To Be ‘Good Referee’ Of Elections
And here is our “good referee” at a pro-Trump rally last December:
(I wrote about it here.)
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McKinley picks fight with John Kerry to prove that he can stand up to the Biden Administration
Hey, it’s day 2 of the Ogden campaign to reelect David McKinley
David McKinley is no Mr. Softee* when it comes to the Biden administration
At the top of the front page of today’s Wheeling Intelligencer:
McKinley Smoking Over Kerry Coal Comments
650 words later, we’ve learned from Steven Allen Adams that the congressman did not like what Kerry said at last week’s . . .
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Infrastructure, Build Back Better, and David McKinley
Today’s Wheeling Intelligencer editorializes about the infrastructure package in order to praise/support our local congressman
The infrastructure bill passed early Saturday morning. Despite its importance, there was nothing about the legislation in yesterday’s local papers. (See previous post.) Today, the Intelligencer continued to ignore the particulars of the bill but did editorially applaud local representative and Ogden favorite, David McKinley, for voting for . . .
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Didn’t the House pass a massive infrastructure bill Saturday morning?
Newspapers on the cheap: A look at today’s Wheeling Intelligencer
Last week’s news
When was today's front section assembled? Last Friday? Today’s front page has stories on the local police department looking for applicants, the county’s Humane Officer retiring, a local county commissioner deciding to run again, the new president of Marshall University, and a 2,300-word feature story about a . . .
$1 trillion infrastructure bill passes House
Local representative, David McKinley, one of 13 Republicans to vote for the bill
From the New York Times:
House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on Hold
The article explains:
The House passed a $1 trillion bill on Friday night to rebuild the country’s aging public works system, fund new climate resilience initiatives and expand access to . . .
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West Virginia and cancer-causing chemicals
A new ProPublica risk assessment tool
West Virginia’s history is long on placing private sector profits over the public’s health. (Governor Justices recent appointment of former coal company officials to the Public Service Commission would only reinforce that point.) As a result, the state figures to be among the worst on most state-by-state comparisons of health-related issues. . . .
