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I write this brief diary nearly in tears. Beginning tomorrow, for the first time in my life, neither the Wheeling News-Register nor the Wheeling Intelligencer will be delivered to my home. I have decided to cancel my subscription until further notice, and I am urging you to do the same . Over the past few years, Ogden Publishing has become more extreme, more partisan, more biased, and more divisi...
West Virginia Blue - Thu 3:23 p.m. - 5 clicks 
I believe several " Carnackis " will be there. Maybe even me. From an email: The real Campaign for Change is now underway. Please forward this message, as appropriate. TO: All friends and members of the Berkeley County Democratic Association RE: Holiday Dinner, Celebration & BCDA Meeting Dear friends - There will NOT be a BCDA meeting on Monday, November 24. Instead, your officer...
West Virginia Blue - Thu 2:49 p.m. - 4 clicks
Hit the phones again folks. I know, you still have a neck cramp, between the campaign, and the JoeMentun, but if you like Almost Heaven license plates, smush your ears again. In case you missed it the first time, read up: Got No More Animal Puns: Endangered Species Act Extinct Rahall is on the relevant Committee that write the Sternly Worded Letters . Shelley has an undergraduate degree ...
West Virginia Blue - Thu 9:42 a.m. - 6 clicks
The Martinsburg Journal's Naomi Smoot has a good story on Sen. Robert C. Byrd: They don't call him "Big Daddy" for nothing. In recent years, U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., has secured more than $400 million for projects in the Eastern Panhandle, not to mention what he's done for the rest of the state. As the former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Byrd helped obtain ...
West Virginia Blue - Thu 6:21 a.m. - 7 clicks
Story Here : About a dozen citizens picketed Verizon's office in downtown Berkeley Springs at noon today to protest the company's failure to provide Internet Broadband service to Morgan County. Carrying signs that read: "Verizon Abandons Rural West Virginia" and "Honk for Broadband" and chanting "What do we want? Broadband. When do we want it? Now" -- the citizens protested Verizon's failure t...
West Virginia Blue - Wed 6:08 p.m. - 7 clicks
Cross-posted from InkBlog . I thought this story from West Virginia Metro News was interesting. George Hammond of the WVU Business school describes how West Virginia is faring during this economic mess: Hammond says West Virginia is weathering the financial crisis better than most other states. "I think West Virginia is doing a bit better than many states in terms o...
West Virginia Blue - Wed 9:27 a.m. - 14 clicks
From yesterday's Charleston Gazette, a random audit of the West Virginia State Police has found some very troubling problems. First and foremost, a 'sloppiness' in record keeping and evidence preservation has been cited. The audit found widespread and frequent inadequacies in documenting and safeguarding evidence, including: Time lags as long as 200 days or more ...
West Virginia Blue - Wed 7:51 a.m. - 13 clicks
ANTHRAX SCARE AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Michigan football practice was delayed nearly two hours late this morning after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the practice field. Head coach Rich Rodriguez immediately suspended practice while police and federal agents were called to investigate. After a complete analysis, FBI forensic experts determined that the wh...
West Virginia Blue - Wed 7:51 a.m. - 9 clicks
Jake Stump at The Charleston Daily Mail reports the latest "Washington insider" news . The committee shuffle starting with Sen. Byrd's departure from Appropriations may well end up with Sen. Rockefeller as chair of Commerce. U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller is set to take on a new leadership role as chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, according to Washington insiders and publications. ...
West Virginia Blue - Wed 3:25 a.m. - 11 clicks
Tonight we held our usual Drinking Liberally in Martinsburg at the Chinese restaurant across from this election season's Dem HQ. I had the idea earlier of encouraging people to bring their rally signs for one last wave after we finished drinking and several did. ...
DailyKos (West Virginia) - Fri 10:11 p.m. - 22 clicks
