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<title>McDowell businesses to benefit from new prison</title>
<description><![CDATA[WELCH, W.Va. -- A new federal prison in McDowell County will need enough goods and services to run a small city and officials want local businesses and entrepreneurs to be suppliers.McDowell County economic development director Rachel Lester says packages ...]]></description>
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<title>Real-estate developer Al Summers dies</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston real-estate developer Albert &quot;Al&quot; Summers died of heart failure at his Charleston home Sunday morning. He was 83.  Summers owned a number of buildings on the citys East End and was involved in numerous high...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston designer Alex Morgado goes from unemployment line to starting his own business</title>
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<title>Frontiers stimulus request goes unfunded</title>
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<title>Allegheny completes Fort Martin scrubber project</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Allegheny Energy says it has completed installing pollution control equipment at its Fort Martin power plant in northern West Virginia. Scrubbers installed at the plant near Morgantown will reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.The Fort Mart...]]></description>
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<title>Coal study details benefits, ignores costs</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <a href="http://www.be.wvu.edu/bber/pdfs/BBER-2010-04.pdf">Read the study</a>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A new West Virginia Coal Association study touts the industrys multibillion-dollar economic benefits to the state, but it does not attempt to account for ...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:01:06 -0500
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<title>South Charleston tells Manchin no on tech park annexation </title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- South Charleston officials told Gov. Joe Manchin Thursday that they wouldnt give up part of the citys technology park as part of the states plan to take over the property.   During a private meeting, the governor reiterated his req...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:09:48 -0500
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<title>LaHood says dont drive recalled Toyotas until fixed</title>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:08:19 -0500
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<title>Grant helps support startup businesses in state</title>
<description><![CDATA[SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- A program that provides technical assistance to startup businesses in distressed West Virginia counties is getting a $250,000 boost.The Natural Capital Investment Fund said today it has received a grant from the Claude Worthington B...]]></description>
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<title>Toyota probe deepens amid confusion over risk</title>
<description><![CDATA[    WASHINGTON -- Americans should park their recalled Toyotas unless driving to dealers for accelerator repairs, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Wednesday -- then quickly took it back -- as skepticism of company fixes grew and the governments p...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston-area groups elect officers, board members</title>
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<title>Massey outlines plans to up coal production</title>
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<title>State considers freeing some biz property from taxes</title>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:53:56 -0500
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<title>Highland expansion gets initial OK</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  Highland Hospitals expansion plans in Kanawha City appear back on track after a nearly two-year delay, after the Municipal Planning Commission approved an alley closing Wednesday.  Highland announced the $38 million project -- w...]]></description>
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<title>TerraSalis closes Milton location</title>
<description><![CDATA[      MALDEN, W.Va. --  TerraSalis has closed its Milton location, combining the inventory and staff into the Malden garden center.  &quot;Basically, were combining,&quot; said Nelle Chilton, vice president of TerraCare and spokeswoman for the business. &q...]]></description>
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<title>Patriot Coal slumps in fourth quarter</title>
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<title>Charles Town casino getting new Hollywood brand</title>
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<title>Energy Services reports first-quarter profits</title>
<description><![CDATA[      HUNTINGTON, W.Va. --  Construction company Energy Services of America says it turned profitable in the fiscal first quarter of 2010.  Energy Services says it earned $637,563, or 5 cents per share, in the period that ended Dec. 31. The company lost $2...]]></description>
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<title>Blackhawk Saloon owner optimistic hell get liquor license back</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  The owner of the Blackhawk Saloon in Charleston has temporarily lost his liquor license after almost two years of skirting the Kanawha-Charleston Health Departments indoor smoking ban.   An undercover West Virginia Alcohol Bever...]]></description>
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<title>Tech park could see more state offices</title>
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<title>Plant mirrors new city</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The former Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Plant mirrored and mustered the growth of Kanawha City with workers who wanted homes closer to the plant, builders eager to meet the need and merchants ready to provide goods and services in the risin...]]></description>
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<title>Bond rating aids state</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gov. Joe Manchin said that before his inauguration six years ago he visited Wall Street. &quot;I said, Tell me what you think were doing, right or wrong.&quot;They said, First of all, workers compensation is your Achilles heel. No. 2 i...]]></description>
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<title>Heartfelt help goes to Haitians</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia belongs to the global body of hearty help going to the bereaved and bereft of the Haitian earthquake. By midweek, Mountaineers counted among U.S. personal donors of $150 million to Haitian relief, to say nothing of food, ...]]></description>
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<title>Creating successful companies</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Keith McFarland, author of &quot;Bounce: The Art of Turning Tough Times into Triumph,&quot; and &quot;The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers,&quot; spent seven years studying what makes the dif...]]></description>
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<title>The untold story on civil rights</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The old story goes that one of the first questions from among European immigrants when they landed on American soil was: &quot;Where do the colored people live.&quot;In later years, according to the story, the same question rose among ...]]></description>
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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Rating Manchins State of the State address</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Are the state Chamber of Commerces &quot;Ten Solutions for 2010,&quot; released earlier this month, in line with the priorities Gov. Joe Manchin outlined in his State of the State speech.I had a discussion with Chamber President Steve ...]]></description>
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<title>Byrd heard on coal</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It comes in pieces but the whole is there in what Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., was talking about recently in a statement. He admonished people in the coal industry and their friends to stop grandstanding, fear-mongering and otherw...]]></description>
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Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Local workers benefit at Snowshoe</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Snowshoe Mountain Resort, Pocahontas Countys largest employer, &quot;has made a real strong effort to hire locally and it has worked,&quot; said Bill Rock, the resorts president and chief executive officer.  &quot;Our year-round be...]]></description>
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<title>Edward Peeks: The filibuster is finally floored</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Senate passage of health-care reform legislation looked to many West Virginians and other Americans like the final fate of the filibuster, an ancient tactic under an old rule that allowed a willful minority to thwart action by ...]]></description>
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<title>George Hohmann: Top 10 business stories of 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Here, in no particular order, are my picks for the top 10 state business stories of 2009:  <li>Recession slams West Virginia jobs. The state lost 22,600 jobs between the second quarter of 2008 and the second quarter of 2009, said G...]]></description>
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<title>Millions to become insured</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The New Year promises a long-sought change in national health care, the beginning of insurance coverage for millions of American -- thousands of them in West Virginia.  Early prediction was that Congress would enact such a hist...]]></description>
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<title>How costly was the Turnpike shutdown.</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- What is the economic impact when the West Virginia Turnpike shuts down.  Last summer, after reading that a July 2 shutdown of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia cost residents there at least $2.2 million in fuel and lo...]]></description>
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<title>Food stamp use rising </title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In the dreary past, a Charleston acquaintance bristled with indignation at the sight of a customer paying in line ahead of us with food stamps at the supermarket. But nowadays food stamps are plastic with the appearance of the typical ...]]></description>
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<title>Online for the holidays</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If you have an opportunity during the holidays to spend time online, here are some worthwhile resources:<li>Gov. Joe Manchins third annual energy summit, held earlier this month at Stonewall Resort, featured presentations ranging from ...]]></description>
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<title>Auvil bids for rural housing</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia veteran builder Ken Auvil wrote an open letter to President Obama, members of Congress and the public during Thanksgiving on a rural housing development plan, as if for the plan to be served with food on each thankful plate. The plan calls fo...]]></description>
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<title>Many do without banking</title>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty-seven percent of West Virginia households are unbanked or underbanked, according to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. survey.Households were identified as unbanked if they didnt have a checking or savings account. They were defined as underbanked if...]]></description>
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<title>Mountain mine jobs questioned</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I erred in a recent column in saying that moves in W.Va. and other states to abolish strip mining came to naught a generation ago, according to Chad Montrie, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.&quot;People ca...]]></description>
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<title>Owners put heat on GM</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- General Motors, having taken $58 billion in federal rescue money, must now take some political pressure from members of Congress, including Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.In an Oct. 30 article headlined &quot;Politicians Butt In at Baile...]]></description>
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<title>Massey ruling reaction</title>
<description><![CDATA[Food for thought abounds in the latest ruling by the West Virginia Supreme Court striking down a $50 million verdict by a Boone County jury in favor of Hugh Caperton and his company, Harman Mining, against Massey Energy and CEO Don Blankenship.The lawsuit ...]]></description>
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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:58:17 -0500
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Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:45:00 -0500
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