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<title>Hoppy Kercheval: A giant health bill is not the cure</title>
<description><![CDATA[But Mollohanand Rahall willlikely vote yesA bad headache doesnt usually require brain surgery, yet thats the approach the Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are preparing to take with their health care reform bill. The House plan will ...]]></description>
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<title>David Lee Gainer: Dont keep Dont Ask, Dont Tell</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As a native son of Clarksburg, I read with great interest the Gazettes recent editorial calling for equality in our nations armed forces. From my perspective, as a retired Air Force chief master sergeant, the article was spot-on.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Kevin Knobloch and John Campagna: We must support clean energy</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Health-care reform is generating headlines now, but over the next several weeks, another issue just as important to the long-term future of West Virginia and America will take center stage. The Senate will soon debate a bill tackling g...]]></description>
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<title>Roger D. Curry: Show some guts on fat tax</title>
<description><![CDATA[Heres a tip of the hat for the Gazettes stories of the PEIA proposal aimed at us fat people. We now have a sound bite (&quot;fat tax&quot;) so catchy that it smothers what used to be an honest discussion. You said the governor promoted a health insurance r...]]></description>
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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:36:54 -0500
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<title>Mike Harman: Lets turn coal to our benefit</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I worked at the Cabin Creek Medical Center from 1980 to 1987, helping coal miners and other workers apply for workers compensation, Federal Black Lung, Social Security Disability and other benefits.  During that time, I toured unde...]]></description>
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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>James A. White: Dont bet on 2010 election forecasts</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Stop reading now if your only desire is to learn which party will win the 2010 House of Representatives election. I dont know and neither does anyone else, regardless of how many newspapers carry George Wills predictions, or how mu...]]></description>
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Carl Hubbard: Coal supporters must stand up to its opponents</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Coal is the lifeblood of West Virginia. West Virginia coal helped build this great nation, and continues to light the way for America and the world today. West Virginias future depends on our coal, and the hard work and dedication of a...]]></description>
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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Paul Bresnahan: Episcopal Church is a big tent; all are welcome</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- We Episcopalians have received an invitation from Catholicism to return to the Mother Church. For those unhappy over the Anglican/Episcopal &quot;liberal&quot; stance on the ordination of gays and their inclusion in our leadership and ...]]></description>
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Afghanistan less puzzling when you consider its history</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- For centuries, Afghan society has been complex and divided, despite efforts by so many contemporary government officials and news analysts to transform those complexities into a black-and-white battle of good against evil.Widespread po...]]></description>
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Perry Mann: Capitalism unchecked will destroy its own means</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In Tucker County for centuries there grew a white oak. Its girth reached whatever it takes to encompass a diameter of 13 feet. In 1913 this miracle of nature, more wonderful than a cathedral or a trade tower, was felled by lean mountai...]]></description>
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Joe Wyatt: Racism obscures facts for Rush the entertainer</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- For those who like dictionary definitions, racism is the belief that racial differences produce an inherent superiority -- or inferiority -- of a particular race. Think Rush Limbaugh. When Limbaugh wasnt allowed to purchase the St. Lou...]]></description>
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Hoppy Kercheval: About the Nick Casey nomination ... </title>
<description><![CDATA[    THE U.S. Constitution specifies that federal judges will be appointed by the president, subject to approval by the U.S. Senate.  It is a partisan exercise; Republican presidents appoint Republican judges and Democratic presidents choose members of thei...]]></description>
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:21:05 -0400
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<title>Carter Zerbe: Media unfair to Halloran; they were not blocked from court</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In February and March of 2009, the news media, including the <em>Gazette</em>, severely castigated Magistrate Tim Halloran for allegedly barring the news media from an arraignment in a sensational case involving the arrest of a police ...]]></description>
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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Nell Fleming: Persistent excuses against interracial couples surprising</title>
<description><![CDATA[You may have recently read the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/15/us/AP-US-Interracial-Rebuff.html" target="_blank">story</a> out of Louisiana regarding Keith Bardwells decision to deny an interracial couple a marriage licen...]]></description>
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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>John Perdue: Finance education pays off</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If youve ever heard me speak on the subject of education, no doubt the line &quot;Nothing opens the doors of opportunity like education&quot; crops up.  Members of my staff have heard it so many times they can probably see it comin...]]></description>
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Robert Rupp: EPA chief creates backlash</title>
<description><![CDATA[While not yet a household name, Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA, has ignited a firestorm of controversy in West Virginia. In Jacksons first few months as director, she has transformed the EPA by overturning approval for a coal power plant and placing a serie...]]></description>
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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:49:39 -0400
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<title>Ariella G. Silberman:  Gun prohibition for batterers one domestic violence answer</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In a recent editorial (&quot;Horrifying,&quot; Oct. 7), the <em>Gazette</em> decried the repeating tragedy of West Virginians murdered by a spouse or loved one. The latest figures I have seen indicate that, on average, two-dozen victim...]]></description>
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Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Dwight Harshbarger: W.Va. history slowly recovering from censorship</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hawks Nest tunnel, near Gauley Bridge, is the site of the worst, yet least known, industrial disaster in American history. At least 764 workers, three-fourths of them black, died of acute silicosis contracted during the 1930-31 drilling of the giant Union ...]]></description>
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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Perry Mann: History teaches that nothing fails like success</title>
<description><![CDATA[HINTON, W.Va. -- While I was a student at Washington and Lee University, Arnold Toynbee came to give 17 lectures at Lee Chapel. I was there for all of them and seated on the first row. I have somewhere a notebook full of notes that I took while listening t...]]></description>
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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>M. Khalid Hasan and Omar K. Hasan: Plenty of changes to go around</title>
<description><![CDATA[<em>Last week, Doctors M. Khalid Hasan and Omar K. Hasan outlined changes in how health insurance should be reformed to better meet patients needs. This week, they recommend changes in other areas.</em>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- From politicians to physicians an...]]></description>
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