NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Is Too Expensive

This new bit of tone-deafness and just plain disinformation from the News Journal Editorial page on the possible inclusion of contraception for women as a must cover with no co-pay item (as part of a number of women’s wellness services) inspired this collaborative post from Unstable Isotope, Pandora and me in response.

Ground Zero of Delaware truthiness printed up an opinion piece today on the recommendation by the International Institute of Medicine that health insurance plans be required to include women’s contraception as a basic part of their services and that contraception be provided with no co-pay. Titled Free birth control comes at a cost, the apparent point of this is to tell people that contraception costs money. And if it is required care and required to have no co-pay,then the entire cost gets covered by insurance.

NJ Truthiness Watch — Amtrak Edition

Sunday’s editorial has the NJ wagging their wizened finger at Democrats for not embracing Rep. Mica’s idea of carving out the Northeast Corridor for a rail privatization scheme.

When Conventional Wisdom Rules and Even Leaves the NJ Confused

If you’ve been reading the NJ Editorial page over the past week or so (I know, I know), you will find that the Editorials are still filled with the usual (and lazy) conventional wisdom, but you will have also noticed that this CW leaves them endorsing multiple competing positions. Take a look:
Extend Bush Tax [...]

The News Journal Admits to Deficient Political Coverage

Yesterday, John Sweeney took to the pages of the NJ OpEd page to tell us what we already know — that the media isn’t doing an especially good job at getting political candidates to discuss in detail their approach to issues of concern to voters:

Insurance Commissioner is Failing Aggrieved Patients

That title is stolen from the News Journal Opinion page today, whose writers I have to give some credit to today.

They highlight an odd bit of business, where Senator John D. Rockefeller, D-W.V has written to Delaware Blue Cross to ask them to provide detailed documentation of why they would deny cardiac testing prescribed by doctors to patients exhibiting symptoms of heart failure.

Things I Learned From Ron Williams

This week’s Ron Williams column in the News Journal was more informative than usual. I learned the following:

• Anthony Wedo is rich.

• Anthony Wedo is not running for the DE-AL U.S. House seat, did I mention that Wedo is rich?

• Richard Korn has black hair, is from New York and has a New York accent.

DE Casinos Have A Bad Tell

The three Delaware casinos released a survey in December that states that Delaware voters think three casinos is just about right for the First State reports The News Journal.
Dover Downs, Delaware Park and Harrington Raceway have launched a public relations campaign — including a Web site and a self-commissioned study — condemning the idea of [...]

As DuPont Earns, News Journal Spurns Delaware Workers

More laziness from The News Journal regarding DuPont.

In Which The News Journal Phones It In Again

…and shows themselves to not be paying attention to one of the biggest legislative efforts of a lifetime.

Today The Editors (a term probably more symbolic than a reflection of the actual work being done) published an editorial in which they intone with all seriousness — Health plan will cost money: It’s time Washington admits it.

Robinson Is The Democratic Candidate For RD-37

According to the News Journal, the Democratic party has selected Rob Robinson, Jr. as the candidate for the seat being vacated by Joe Booth.
Georgetown public defender Rob Robinson Jr. has been tapped as the Democratic candidate for the 37th House District seat vacated by state Sen. Joe Booth.
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Robinson, a first-time candidate, was selected today from [...]

DEwind: The Week That Was October 20th

Wherever Kavips is getting his amphetamines it is fine with me, because right now he is Delaware’s Most Prolific blogger. But today, I’ll only focus on his Workforce Housing post from earlier in the week.
But with little contention worth mentioning, here is the scoop from the meeting… Work force housing is a done deal. Stays can [...]

Ron Williams Phones It In

This could be a continuing series, I’m thinking.
Today, Williams tells us what we already know, that Joe Biden is well within his rights to run for both his VP and Senate seats. Well, yes. And?
He goes on not to take a position on whether this is a healthy electoral situation (it sure [...]