You Can Handle This
There was a period of my newspaper career that I covered Wheeling city government. Every morning, I would leave the news building, step out into the alley known as 15th Street Place, and walk east toward the City-County Building on Chapline Street. Once I reached the building, I would begin making my way through the various offices to search out the day’s news stories. During the years of this routine, I saw a serious number of elected council members come and go. I called more than a half dozen officials by their title as mayor. I knocked on the office doors of at least four ...
