Why are Senators Byrd and Rockefeller not standing up for the coal industry in West Virginia? If we lose mountaintop mining then West Virginia is down the tubes. Where is the voice of the United Mine Workers, Cecil Roberts? He certainly is suspiciously quiet about all this.

Who should you call to report someone who mows their grass and then dumps the clippings on someone else's property?

Turn to the first chapter of the book Romans in the Bible and read. Then tell me what is wrong with our nation and the world. Look what is ruining our children and what is put on TV. I think sex belongs in each person's own bedroom, not blasted on TV. They also have terrible language and blaspheme God's name.

I don't believe that the violence that children perpetrate on other children is the fault of an alleged government takeover of parenting. It is caused by fractured families, usually an absent father, a lack of values, poverty, drugs and easy access to guns.

I don't know why people are so upset about Appalachian Power getting a raise. Mountaineer Gas is the one that I'm concerned about. They raised my monthly budget $50 this month. If they get another increase it will probably go to $75.

Don't you just love it when you call a business for information and they tell you to go to www.com when you don't even have a computer?

The blatant lobbying on TV by the coal companies during the Marshall/WVU game was an insult to all West Virginians.

I am sick of reading about Jon and Kate. Who cares about them anyway?

For all you people who say you can't find work: When I look through the ads I see plenty of jobs. I think people are just lazy.

I wonder how Consol Energy can get off scot free with killing all the fish in that stream? If I had gone over there and killed fish using dynamite I would have been put in prison.

I urge those who oppose universal health care to read the article on health care written by a Canadian in the November issue of Reader's Digest. The opposition is spending $1.2 million a day to fight health care for United States citizens.

For the record, the state road commission closed the Burnsville rest areas on I-79 March of 2008 and just recently reopened them. The Bridgeport rest area was closed Sept.14 and on Oct. 17 and there is still no equipment or reconstruction. They are still closed. That is really nice for leaf peepers and those traveling to see football games.

If all state employees can't have state cars, then no state employees should be able to.

Why are Senators Byrd and Rockefeller not standing up for the coal industry in West Virginia? If we lose mountaintop mining then West Virginia is down the tubes. Where is the voice of the United Mine Workers, Cecil Roberts? He certainly is suspiciously quiet about all this.

Who should you call to report someone who mows their grass and then dumps the clippings on someone else's property?

Turn to the first chapter of the book Romans in the Bible and read. Then tell me what is wrong with our nation and the world. Look what is ruining our children and what is put on TV. I think sex belongs in each person's own bedroom, not blasted on TV. They also have terrible language and blaspheme God's name.

I don't believe that the violence that children perpetrate on other children is the fault of an alleged government takeover of parenting. It is caused by fractured families, usually an absent father, a lack of values, poverty, drugs and easy access to guns.

I don't know why people are so upset about Appalachian Power getting a raise. Mountaineer Gas is the one that I'm concerned about. They raised my monthly budget $50 this month. If they get another increase it will probably go to $75.

Don't you just love it when you call a business for information and they tell you to go to www.com when you don't even have a computer?

The blatant lobbying on TV by the coal companies during the Marshall/WVU game was an insult to all West Virginians.

I am sick of reading about Jon and Kate. Who cares about them anyway?

For all you people who say you can't find work: When I look through the ads I see plenty of jobs. I think people are just lazy.

I wonder how Consol Energy can get off scot free with killing all the fish in that stream? If I had gone over there and killed fish using dynamite I would have been put in prison.

I urge those who oppose universal health care to read the article on health care written by a Canadian in the November issue of Reader's Digest. The opposition is spending $1.2 million a day to fight health care for United States citizens.

For the record, the state road commission closed the Burnsville rest areas on I-79 March of 2008 and just recently reopened them. The Bridgeport rest area was closed Sept.14 and on Oct. 17 and there is still no equipment or reconstruction. They are still closed. That is really nice for leaf peepers and those traveling to see football games.

If all state employees can't have state cars, then no state employees should be able to.

The Charleston Gazette editorial staff should watch Glen Beck on Fox TV and maybe they could report the truth about socialism and many more crony things, which are going on in the White House.

I'd like to know when Kanawha County and the state of West Virginia are going to focus a little more on traffic tailgating. It is getting out of hand and it is the best way to tick off another driver. They should put some large fines on it and put a stop to this nonsense.

I wish the folks at the newspaper who put the stickers on the front page would stop putting it over the date.

I hope the Mountaineers give a moment of respective silence at Saturday's game to the UConn player who was tragically killed.

Keeping bicycles off the highway could easily solve the joint-expansion problem on Kanawha Boulevard.

Do those who want to shut down all use of fossil fuels as soon as possible realize it will be decades before enough windmills, solar panels and nuclear power plants can be built to replace what we have today? What are we supposed to use for lights, heating and cooling in the meantime?

I have watched and listened to Fox News, and all they say are hateful words to anyone who doesn't agree with them. I'm tired of all the angry rhetoric that people like Glen Beck and Bill O'Reilly perpetuate. It's disgusting, and it's not what this country needs to mend after eight years of George Bush.

I don't think Generation X has any common sense or the ability to think for themselves. They have been raised thinking the answer to everything is just a click away, and they will believe anything they hear.

The idiots with the helium balloon have now had their five minutes of fame. It's time to get them off the air now.

The federal government says there is no need for a cost-of-living raise for Social Security recipients because there is no inflation. They need to look at the prices before they say there is no inflation. The cost of eggs is $1.50, milk is more than $3 and car tires went from $49 to $99 per tire.

Very few people are opposed to the use of coal because it is necessary to generate power right now. What most people are opposed to is the destruction of mountains, valleys and streams. Deep mining is the way to go.

Will the Gazette please publish a map of the PATH power line, which will affect almost the whole state and thousands of people?

New Mexico is investigating cell phone usage by its employees. I think West Virginia should do the same thing.