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Orion Strategies
Orion Strategies LLC is a strategic communications firm that provides public relations, lobbying and advocacy. The firm also has a research division that conducts polling and focus groups and a creative division for video, graphic design and digital. History Orion Strategies was founded in 2007 by Curtis Wilkerson. The company has locations in Washington, DC; Harrisburg, PA; Columbus, OH; Charleston, WV; Buckhannon, WV; and Martinsburg, WV. Activities Orion Strategies provides strategic communication services to its clients. This includes public relations, bipartisan federal and state lobbying, grassroots advocacy, media relations, creative services, opinion polling and research. Polling Orion has carried out non-partisan polling for a number of organizations including the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce and news organizations including ''The State Journal''. ''FiveThirtyEight'' gave Orion Strategies a B− ranking in its review of pollsters in the USA. Natural gas industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Scheunemann
Randall James "Randy" Scheunemann (born January 12, 1960) is an American neoconservative lobbyist. He is the President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), of which he is a board member. He was Trent Lott's National Security Aide and was an advisor to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq. He is a paid lobbyist for the country of Georgia and was 2008 presidential candidate John McCain's foreign policy aide. Family Scheunemann moved with his parents to the neighborhood of River Hills, in Burnsville, Minnesota in 1965. *Father: Paul Scheunemann, born 1926, died 2003. Mayor of Burnsville 1978-1982. Stricken with polio at age 15; used a wheelchair thereafter. *Mother: Gladys (Olson), born 1932, died 2000 Education and early career Scheunemann attended public school in Burnsville, Minnesota: Sioux Trail elementary school (1966–1972), John Metcalf Junior High School (1972–1975) and finally Burns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Relations
Media Relations involves working with media for the purpose of informing the public of an organization's mission, policies and practices in a positive, consistent and credible manner. It can also entail developing symbiotic relationships with media outlets, journalists, bloggers, and influencers to garner publicity for an organization. Typically, this means coordinating directly with the people responsible for producing the news and features in the mass media. The goal of media relations is to maximize positive coverage in the mass media without paying for it directly through advertising. Many people use the terms ''public relations'' and ''media relations'' interchangeably; however, as distinct concepts, "media relations" refers to the relationship that a company or organization develops with journalists, whereas "public relations" extends that relationship beyond the media to the general public.There is also integrated marketing that is related but not the same, integrated mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politico
''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American, German-owned political journalism newspaper company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally. It primarily distributes content online but also with printed newspapers, radio, and podcasts. Its coverage in Washington, D.C., includes the U.S. Congress, Lobbying in the United States, lobbying, the Media of the United States, media, and the President of the United States, presidency. Axel Springer SE, a German publisher, announced in August 2021 that it had agreed to buy Politico from founder Robert Allbritton for over $1 billion. The closing took place in late October 2021. The new owners said they would add staff, and at some point, put the publication's news content behind a paywall. Axel Springer is Europe's largest newspaper publisher and had previously acquired ''Business Insider, Insider''. History Origins, style, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Intercept
''The Intercept'' is an American left-wing news website founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras and funded by billionaire eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Its current editor is Betsy Reed. The publication initially reported on documents released by Edward Snowden and was considered to be "activist voice for privacy and civil liberties". Co-founders Greenwald and Poitras subsequently left amid public disagreements about the leadership and direction of the organization. In recent years, the website's editorial stance has become more closely aligned with the hard-left of the Democratic Party. It was among the first to report on the campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and often criticizes moderate democrats from a left-wing perspective. Its editorial policy explicitly rejects "mandating balance" when covering stories. ''The Intercept'' has published in English since its founding, and in Portuguese since the 2016 launch of the Brazilian edition staffed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kelly (West Virginia Politician)
John R. Kelly (born September 23, 1946) is an American Republican Party politician, who has represented Wood County in the West Virginia House of Delegates since 2014. Early life John R. Kelly was born on September 23, 1946 in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He attended Glenville State College, Parkersburg Community College and Mountain State University. He was in the United States Air Force from August 1967 to February 1971. While in the Air Force, he was as an honor guard from December 1968 until February 1971 and served at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Political career Kelly was a member of the Parkersburg City Council from 1985 to 1996 and from 2013 to 2014. He was first elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 2014. As of 2021 he is chair of the House of Delegates' interim committee on natural gas development. Critical Infrastructure Protection Act In 2020 Kelly sponsored the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, which created felony penalties for protests ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felony
A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious. The term "felony" originated from English common law (from the French medieval word "félonie") to describe an offense that resulted in the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods, to which additional punishments including capital punishment could be added; other crimes were called misdemeanors. Following conviction of a felony in a court of law, a person may be described as a felon or a convicted felon. Some common law countries and jurisdictions no longer classify crimes as felonies or misdemeanors and instead use other distinctions, such as by classifying serious crimes as indictable offences and less serious crimes as summary offences. In the United States, where the felony/misdemeanor distinction is still widely applied, the federal government defines a felony as a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year. If punishable b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Fuel And Petrochemical Manufacturers
American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) is an American trade association, founded in 1902 as the National Petroleum Association. It became the National Petroleum Refiners Association in 1961, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association in 1998 and became the AFPM in 2012. AFPM is a trade association representing American manufacturers of virtually the entire U.S. supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other fuels and home heating oil, and petrochemicals. AFPM represents companies including Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Marathon Petroleum and Valero Energy. In 2018 AFPM and its members spent over $30 million to defeat 2018 Washington Initiative 1631, a ballot initiative to introduce a carbon tax in Washington state. Lobbyists for AFPM worked to pass West Virginia's Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, a 2021 law creating felony A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fracking
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of bedrock formations by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents) into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep-rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum, and brine will flow more freely. When the hydraulic pressure is removed from the well, small grains of hydraulic fracturing proppants (either sand or aluminium oxide) hold the fractures open. Hydraulic fracturing began as an experiment in 1947, and the first commercially successful application followed in 1950. As of 2012, 2.5 million "frac jobs" had been performed worldwide on oil and gas wells, over one million of those within the U.S. Such treatment is generally necessary to achieve adequate flow rates in shale gas, tight ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural Gas In The United States
Natural gas was the United States' largest source of energy production in 2016, representing 33 percent of all energy produced in the country. Natural gas has been the largest source of electrical generation in the United States since July 2015. In 2012, the United States produced 25.3 trillion cubic feet of marketed natural gas, with an average wellhead value of $2.66 per thousand cubic feet, for a total wellhead value of $67.3 billion. In 2013, the country produced 30.0 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of marketed gas. With 7,545 billion cubic feet (BCF), the leading gas-producing area in the United States in 2013 was Texas, followed by Pennsylvania (3,259 BCF), and Louisiana (2,407 BCF). US natural gas production achieved new record highs for each year from 2011 through 2015. Marketed natural gas production in 2015 was 28.8 trillion cubic feet, a 5.4 percent increase over 2014, and a 52 percent increase over the production of 18.9 trillion cubic feet in 2005. The natural gas industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollsters
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election) is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster. History The first known example of an opinion poll was a tallies of voter preferences reported on Telegram Messenger to the 1824 presidential election, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency. Since Jackson won the popular vote in that state and the whole country, such straw votes gradually became more popular, but they remained local, usually citywide phenomena. In 1916, ''The Literary Digest'' embarked on a national survey (partly as a circulation-raising exercise) and correc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FiveThirtyEight
''FiveThirtyEight'', sometimes rendered as ''538'', is an American website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging in the United States. The website, which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college, was founded on March 7, 2008, as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver. In August 2010, the blog became a licensed feature of ''The New York Times'' online and renamed ''FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus''. In July 2013, ESPN acquired ''FiveThirtyEight'', hiring Silver as editor-in-chief and a contributor for ''ESPN.com''; the new publication launched on March 17, 2014. Since then, the ''FiveThirtyEight'' blog has covered a broad spectrum of subjects including politics, sports, science, economics, and popular culture. In 2018, the operations were transferred from ESPN to sister property ABC News (also under parent The Walt Disney Company). During the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The State Journal (West Virginia)
''The State Journal'' is a weekly newspaper based in Charleston, West Virginia, and published by NCWV Media. It is the only newspaper with political and general news content distributed throughout the state of West Virginia. History The ''State Journal'' was founded as a business newspaper in 1984, containing business news and editorials on business subjects. In 2002, the newspaper was acquired by West Virginia Media Holdings, which greatly expanded the operating budget of the newspaper. It then began to also cover legal and government news and introduce conservative editorial content on subjects other than business. West Virginia Media Holdings West Virginia Media Holdings was a media company in West Virginia. It owned television stations in each of the four main media markets in the state, as well as a weekly newspaper. The group owned WOWK-TV in Huntington, WVNS-TV in Lewisburg, a ... would later sell the paper to NCWV Media in December 2016. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
