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<title>Robert Rupp: A lesson missed by Edwards</title>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Ma, Ma, Wheres Pa.&quot;&quot;Gone to the White House, Ha. Ha!&quot;It was the presidential election of 1884. The first line was the Republican chant that the Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland, had fathered an illegitimate child. While the secon...]]></description>
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<title>John Perdue: Treasurers Office will reach out to help</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- This past fall, I ventured to the Eastern Panhandle to let folks know what our office can do for them. We invest money for cities and counties; we process revenue, such as speeding ticket fines and garbage fees; and, among other servic...]]></description>
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<title>Dr. M. Khalid Hasan: Can Muslims and the West co-exist, peacefully.</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Muslim world has provided great innovations in the humanities and science. Islamic society was admired until the 14th century. Unfortunately, just as Pope Benedict XVIs comments were taken out of context, the message of Islam has b...]]></description>
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<title>Bob Miller: W.Va. immigrant workers found land of danger, servitude</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Many immigrants who came to America found their way to West Virginia through so-called employment agencies in northern cities. They were promised good-paying jobs and decent living conditions. What they were promised and what they foun...]]></description>
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<title>James A. Haught: Terrible history--West Virginias mine wars</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The ongoing struggle to put Logan Countys Blair Mountain on the National Register of Historic Places is drawing attention to West Virginias notorious mine wars of the early 1900s. Whether or not Blair finally gets U.S. recognition, one...]]></description>
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<title>Gene Wright: General aviation ensures growth</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As we enter into 2010, deep concerns about jobs and employment remain for West Virginians. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, West Virginias unemployment rate nearly doubled between October of 2008 (4.3 percent) and October o...]]></description>
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Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Delegate Rick Thompson: Striving for an open legislative process</title>
<description><![CDATA[As we move into this new decade, its difficult to fathom how much the Internet has changed our lives over the past 20 years, in particular the way government interacts with citizens. Whether through web sites, e-mail or social media, we are able to reach o...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Mike Harman: Localities did it right on smoking</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Gazettes Jan. 9 editorial calls for a state law to supercede local county health regulations regarding smoking in public places. But the Gazette fails to grasp the history of those local regulations, and the degree to which second-hand smoke has been e...]]></description>
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<title>Jeremiah G. Dys: Voters should rule on marriage</title>
<description><![CDATA[    During the 2010 legislative session, lawmakers need to answer one simple question: Does the democratic process apply to all West Virginians or just those running for office.  Since the end of the 2009 session, lawmakers have been studying whether they ...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Robert Rupp: Parties better recognize Independents</title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2010 election year started with a bang when the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat held by brothers John (1952-1960) and Ted Kennedy (1962-2009) was won by Republican Scott Brown - a state senator who was 30 points behind in the polls just a month before t...]]></description>
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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:37:24 -0500
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<title>Steve Roberts: West Virginians deserve right of appeal</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- During his recent State-of-the-State address, Gov. Joe Manchin called for establishment of a right of appeal in West Virginia. West Virginia is the only state that does not provide a right of appeal from a final judgment in a lower cou...]]></description>
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Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Sen. Jay Rockefeller: Safety system proves itself at Yeager</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In Charleston, US Airways Flight 2495 aborted its takeoff from Yeager Airport at the last second. The pilot applied the brakes hard, but the plane had already gathered too much speed and skidded off the end of the runway.  Fortunat...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Harvard Ayers: Second Battle of Blair Mountain</title>
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<title>Gene A. Budig: More black men in prison than college</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Many Americans are fixated on the number 10, the percentage of unemployed family members, friends, neighbors and acquaintances who are without work and a predictable future. More than a few have lost hope, and others fear the possibili...]]></description>
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<title>John Guiniven: Corporations should shun new freedoms</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- Corporations - the smart ones, at least - are unlikely to take advantage of the Supreme Courts recent ruling on the First Amendment, which said the government cannot ban or limit corporations from spending their money to directly influe...]]></description>
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<title>H. John Rogers: Addiction is not like any other disease</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Bob Hansens December commentary &quot;Medicine part of addiction treatment&quot; is basically the Biblical &quot;new wine in old bottles.&quot; The director of the Prestera Center is out there shilling for buprenorphine as the cure - o...]]></description>
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<title>Clint Maynard: Obama is a mediocre, one-term president</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Back during the 08 presidential campaign, I drove around with a sign on my van: &quot;Remember Jimmy Carter.&quot; Oh, what a prophet I was, and how clueless the young voters were who drank the hope and change Kool-Aid.Older Americans ...]]></description>
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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Massachusetts election &amp; Jerry West -- Know your teams</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It is not fair that some voters base their opinion on a candidates knowledge of a sports team -- but it is a fact. And Martha Coakleys mistakes in her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held for a half century by John and then by Ted Ke...]]></description>
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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Brooke Pauley and Rob Rosano: Keeping our graduates in West Virginia</title>
<description><![CDATA[Call it a &quot;generation gap.&quot;  Too many West Virginians leave after getting college degrees. They might return to enjoy retirement, but in the meantime, the state isnt attracting a significant number of people from other regions of the country.   W...]]></description>
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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Jane Claymore: New low for Rush Limbaugh</title>
<description><![CDATA[I swear, every time I think Rush Limbaugh has hit rock bottom he manages to find a new nadir or a trap door opens, and bam. he finds a new one. This last are his characterizations that Obamas swift response to the Haitian horror was politically calculated ...]]></description>
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