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<title>Jamal H. Khan</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Obama outlined the new comprehensive policy to defeat Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Certainly, some of the proposals are new and have been needed for a while.However, some of us who lived through the Vietnam era cannot hel...]]></description>
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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:52:34 -0400
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<title>Hedda L. Haning</title>
<description><![CDATA[Right now, we have a requirement that all direct recording electronic voting machines (colloquially known as &quot;touch screens&quot;) must generate a paper ballot that the voter verifies and which is the vote of record for a canvass or recount.It is good...]]></description>
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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:01:49 -0400
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<title>Bob Brown</title>
<description><![CDATA[The debate at the Capitol over the school calendar is getting more bizarre by the minute. The Senate Finance Committee passed out Senate Bill 249, which purports to address the issue of lost instructional days caused by inclement weather. In its current fo...]]></description>
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Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:11:45 -0400
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<title>Matthew F. Wasson</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Most West Virginians are probably now aware that President Obamas head of the EPA announced a decision on Tuesday to delay and review permits for two mountaintop-removal mining operations, an action that calls into question more than 1...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:41:39 -0400
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<title>Paul J. Nyden</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too</strong>By James K. GalbraithFree Press. 2008. 221 + xiv pages. Hardcover, $25.<strong>Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance</stron...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:45:22 -0400
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<title>Bill Currey</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Thinking about spring. Who isnt. Along with the sun come all the glories of spring for those of us who live in a four-season state like West Virginia.When most people start thinking about spring, a group of volunteers in Boone, Lincoln...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:46:25 -0400
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<title>Rick Wilson</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I spent a chunk of 2008 working with others on a report called &quot;The State of Working West Virginia.&quot; In it, we tried to look back over the last 30 years to track major changes in things like jobs, benefits, wages and such. Fr...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:47:43 -0400
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<title>Bill Tauzin and Bill Novelli</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One of the best things about West Virginia is that nearly everyone wants to do his or her part to make the state a better place to live and a better place for businesses to locate.Thats why our two organizations, Pharmaceutical Researc...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:48:56 -0400
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<title>Steve Gormezano</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- We have the technology to tap wind energy, run it into the grid, and charge electric and hybrid car batteries.They are setting up wind turbines right now off the southern coast of New Jersey. Our northeast coast has the highest wind en...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:49:51 -0400
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<title>Russ Taylor and Mary Aldred-Crouch</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors would like to voice strong opposition to House Bill 3007, which would amend West Virginia code for the purpose of implementing random drug testing &quot;for all applican...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:51:13 -0400
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<title>Winnie Fox</title>
<description><![CDATA[Now that we have elected the first African-American president, we must face one of the most dire economic crises since the Great Depression. Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, he warned us that civil rights were empty without economic rights. ...]]></description>
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:10:58 -0400
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<title>Marty Amerikaner</title>
<description><![CDATA[The State Senates passage of a bill prohibiting discrimination based on age or sexual orientation (SB238) demonstrates the Senates understanding of the principle of justice, and hopefully the House of Delegates will soon do the same.There are several reaso...]]></description>
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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:41:50 -0400
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<title>Nancy Miller Burkhammer</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Berkeley County Delegate Craig Blairs &quot;grass-roots&quot; movement to force welfare recipients, the underemployed and the unemployed to undergo random drug screening could be considered just part of the silly season if it weren...]]></description>
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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:42:31 -0400
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<title>Joseph J. Mangano</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Concern about global warming has kick-started a search for ways to replace coal as a source of electricity. One potential option is nuclear reactors, the second most common source of power in America (behind coal). The 104 U.S. reactors produce 19 percent...]]></description>
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Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:16:41 -0400
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