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West Virginia journalist fired after investigating alleged abuse at state facilities
January 9, 2023
A West Virginia journalist was fired last month after exposing alleged abuse of disabled people in the state’s health agency.
Amelia Ferrell Knisely said she had been warned to stop reporting on allegations that the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources was hiding information on the treatment of disabled persons in state care in the weeks before she was let go from her part-time job at West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
“I was let go from my job at WVPB last week following threats from DHHR about my reporting on DHHR’s treatment of people with disabilities,” she wrote on Twitter Dec. 28.
Last month, Knisely published that an advocacy group was accusing the state of failing to properly institutionalize disabled persons. The state, the group alleged, was “‘patient dumping’ or ‘warehousing patients’ by allowing them to remain unnecessarily institutionalized,” she wrote.
She also reported on a letter Republican Senate President Craig Blair sent to Gov. Jim Justice asking for a formal probe into the allegations.
The fired reporter said leaders at the Health and Human Resources department had “threatened to discredit” WVPB, a publicly funded television and radio network.
Instead, Knisely was allegedly let go.
“It is crucial for the press to hold government agencies accountable,” Knisely said in a statement Tuesday. “It must be emphasized that these events followed my reporting on the mistreatment of people with disabilities, who are in state care.”
She claimed the order came from WVPB Executive Director Butch Antolini, the former communications director for the Justice. Antolini stepped up to the job in 2021 — his predecessor was ousted after Justice overhauled the agency’s governing board. Justice himself had a history of trying to eliminate the annual $4 million in state funding for WVPB.
Antolini has not commented on Knisely, but other officials denied any effort to influence coverage.
West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority chairman William H. File III claims Knisely was not fired and still remains on the station’s payroll. He noted that Antolini “was not coerced or pressured by anyone.”
Knisely claims the state asked her for a “complete retraction” on a story she wrote in November, one month after she was hired at WVPB.
Though that didn’t happen, her news director, Eric Douglas, told her she could no longer cover the state’s Health and Human Resources department because the state was threatening to discredit the network.
Knisely filed a human resources complaint about interference with her reporting on Dec. 15, but was told just five days later that part-time positions were being eliminated. Her email and key card stopped working around that time.
Sauce: https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/west-virginia-journalist-amelia-ferrell-knisely-fired-after-investigating-alleged-abuse-at-state-facilities/
American Airlines drops 3 cities from service, blaming pilot shortage
January 9, 2023
American Airlines is closing three more flight routes this spring due to low demand and an ongoing pilot shortage.
The airline told FOX Business about the decision in a statement sent Saturday.
“In response to the regional pilot shortage affecting the airline industry and soft demand, American Airlines has made the difficult decision to end service inColumbus, Georgia (CSG), Del Rio, Texas (DRT) and Long Beach, California (LGB)this spring,” American Airlines wrote.
Only a total of eight American Airlines-affiliated planes depart daily from Columbus, Del Rio and Long Beach.
American Airlines operates more than 5,000 flights globally every day.
The three cities are currently serviced by regional partners of American Airlines.
“We’re extremely grateful for the care and service our team members provided to our customers in these cities, and are working closely with them during this time. We’ll proactively reach out to customers scheduled to travel to offer alternate arrangements,” the airline told FOX Business.
American Airlines has dropped 19 cities from its routes since the beginning of the pandemic. Other airlines have seen similar service cuts due to the ongoing shortage of pilots, as well as waxing and waning demand.
Sauce: https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/american-airlines-drops-3-cities-from-service-blaming-pilot-shortage/
WTF is going on here…
anons called it for the 6 year old boy shooter
any guesses for the 12 year old who stabbed her 9 year old brother to death while the parents slept?
It's too much anons, it's way too much
https://nypost.com/2023/01/07/abby-zwerner-a-hero-after-being-shot-at-richneck-elementary/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11614073/Girl-12-police-custody-stabbing-death-brother-9-parent-slept-upstairs.html
Tulsa Police Department Chief Franklin tweeted: 'All homicides are tragic, but the 2nd homicide of 2023 in Tulsa shows a definitive societal problem. The question is, how does society address a child killing another child?'
Nancy Mace must be brain damaged. She's vile, so benefit of the doubt…
‘As a rape victim, I won’t defend the indefensible’: Republican Rep. Nancy Mace slam Matt Gaetz over ‘allegations he sex trafficked minors’ and blocked McCarthy for failing to ‘defend’ him
January 9, 2023
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace said Rep. Matt Gaetz repeatedly blocked Kevin McCarthy from becoming speaker of the house because he was angry with McCarthy
Mace said Gaetz was upset McCarthy didn't come to his defense when it was learned he was the subject of a federal probe into sex trafficking
Mace was referring to the revelation that Gaetz was the subject of a federal probe that he had paid for sex with an underage girl
The Florida congressman denied the accusations and was never charged, but was reportedly enraged that McCarthy did not step to his defense
Mace, who has supported new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, blasted the 'backroom deals' made between the leader's allies and conservative holdouts to get him over the finish line on the fifteenth vote.
The South Carolina Republican lawmaker also did not hold back against individuals making those deals, nor did she spare other controversial members of her conference.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace tells @margbrennan that within her district “there was a lot of frustration with the prolonged and unnecessary food fight” over the House speakership vote this week. pic.twitter.com/LbfkhEzLnG
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 8, 2023
'Matt Gaetz is a fraud. Every time he voted against Kevin McCarthy last week he sent out a fundraising email,' Mace fumed.
'What you saw last week was a constitutional process diminished by those kinds of political actions. I don't support that kind of behavior.'
Mace was also asked about freshman GOP Rep. George Santos of New York, who has been facing calls from opponents and constituents to resign after he admitted to lying about his employment, education and Jewish heritage.
She would not say whether she'd join calls for Santos' removal, but Mace did bluntly state that his mistruths were a 'problem.'
'It's very difficult to work with anyone who cannot be trusted, and it's very clear his entire resume in life was- was manufactured until a couple days ago when he finally changed his website,' Mace said.
'It is a problem. If we say we can't trust the Left when they are telling the truth, how can we trust our own?'
Sauce/more CIA bs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11613713/Republican-Rep-Nancy-Mace-slam-Matt-Gaetz-allegations-sex-trafficked-minors.html
Want to know what a problem is Nancy? "Intel" agents posing as GOP politicians. That's a problem you pisoshitto…
PBS, that bastion of virtue and all things good?
The network that proudly hired the child sex abuser/pedophile literally caught in the act? THAT PBS?
How absolutely dare anon to besmirch these very fine people…
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-28-me-16007-story.html
https://www.foxnews.com/story/comic-paula-poundstone-charged-with-child-endangerment
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-07-12-0107120121-story.html
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Chand Baori - One of the Deepest & Largest Stepwells in India (1)
and random others, searched large ancient well in India, results poasted
Anon found a 3 ingredient biscuit recipe and might try that. The bacon was old and had to be tossed, anon won't eat green bacon but the sausage is still good… sausage, sausage gravy and biscuits… yum…
sourdough… anon can almost smell the goodness.
If the gravy goes sideways (again) anon could always use more spackel, got that down to a science..