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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes</title>
<description><![CDATA[Short takes No holiday is more American than the Fourth of July - Independence Day - the day the nation declared itself free of British rule. The nations birthday deserves celebrations with picnics, hot dogs, baseball games and just about anything else tha...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Hats off</title>
<description><![CDATA[HISTORIAN Greg Carroll of the state Division of Culture and History wants to give to ordinary citizens artifacts that are more than a century old. He is trying to locate the relatives of more than 4,000 Union soldiers whose service in the Civil War earned ...]]></description>
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<title>Robert Rupp</title>
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<title>Would Galileo buy global warming.</title>
<description><![CDATA[FOR 2,000 years, the scientific debate was settled. The ancient Greeks had studied the skies, and had determined by the 4th century before Christ that the Earth was the center of the universe.The heavenly bodies rotated around the Earth in little wheels. E...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: July 3, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>On bottom of page 4A in the Gazette on June 30, Eugene Robinson gives every excuse for Michael Jackson, who was nothing but a child-molesting drug addict.</li><li>Whatever happened to professional broadcast journalism. Channel 8s broadcasters c...]]></description>
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<title>Hate crime</title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asked Congress to expand Americas hate crimes law to protect homosexuals who frequently suffer &quot;gay-bashing&quot; by gangs of thugs.&quot;One has to look at the unfortunate history of our nation,&quot; Hold...]]></description>
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<title>Terry Gossard </title>
<description><![CDATA[Students of history might recall the robber barons of the late 19th century, i.e., ruthlessly powerful U.S. capitalists or industrialists (frequently associated with the railroad magnates of that era) considered to have become wealthy by exploiting natural...]]></description>
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<title>Readers forum: July 3, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>Stop big-government plan on health care </strong>Editor:The big government takeover has to stop. Ever since liberals claimed power, its been one bureaucratic scheme after another. Their newest target, health care, is the most dangerous intervention...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: July 2, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>Congratulations 10-year-old girls fast pitch softball state champions, the Wild Ones. Great kids, great families and great sportsmanship. No hits and no runs the entire weekend. Congratulations.</li><li>The best way to clean an iron skillet is ...]]></description>
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<title>Justice</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable in criminal cases. Victims and observers often misremember faces and appearances. Physical, scientific, police evidence is much more trustworthy.  For example, Larry Holdren spent 15 years...]]></description>
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<title>John Warner: Left equals rights</title>
<description><![CDATA[      From the response I got in the Gazette when I told about my days in Emporia, Kansas, I know the image many readers get when they think of a &quot;left of center&quot; professor in a classroom. OK. I know the image has negative connotations. I think o...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    <strong>State museum is a treasure</strong>   Editor:  I recently had the opportunity to tour the &quot;new&quot; West Virginia State History Museum. As a West Virginia Studies teacher, I was especially interested to see what type of learning environme...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>It is a pity it takes a tragedy to point out the problems with HUD housing. Unregulated HUD housing destroys neighborhoods and property values. The paper should stay on this until something is done.</li><li>I want to thank the responsible party...]]></description>
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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:38:11 -0400
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<title>Science camp honors West Virginia</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Another free public event is being added to the Kanawha Valleys cultural calendar. The first Martha Wehrle Opening Lecture, sponsored by the National Youth Science Foundation, is set for 6 p.m. today in the grand lobby of the Clay Center for the Arts a...]]></description>
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<title>James D. Felsen</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I congratulate the Legislature and governor for their leadership to institute meaningful health system reform (SB 414). As a frequent critic of past efforts, such applause does not come lightly.  This modest first step -- launched ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    <strong>Lets just get rid of mountain nicknames</strong>Editor:Last week during a protest against mountaintop removal, a Massey employee pointed to a green mountainside and told a reporter, &quot;Its beautiful, but what is it good for.&quot;That was a ...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: June 29, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[        I travel to Wood County and Jackson County a lot and wonder who is responsible for repairing the roads in Kanawha County. They are always repairing potholes in those counties but in Kanawha County the roads are terrible, especially in Charleston an...]]></description>
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<title>Matthew Bova</title>
<description><![CDATA[According to the results of the 2009 Traffic Study Report, minority motorists in West Virginia are 2.5 times more likely than white motorists to be searched by law enforcement when stopped for alleged traffic violations. This is the case even though search...]]></description>
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<title>Dr. Charles H. Hiles Jr.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As a primary-care physician practicing hospital medicine in Bluefield, I spend most of my day fighting chronic diseases. Many days, it seems that I am losing the battle. With the highest rate of diabetes in the nation, there are 23...]]></description>
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<title>Renate Pore</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Listen up, West Virginia. The most important debate of the past 50 years will begin in Congress and fill the airwaves this summer. The outcome of the debate will decide if the USA will have an affordable health-care system that rewards...]]></description>
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<title>Charles McElwee</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Were it not for burning of the earths natural resources, people of the world would live in a primitive state. Most comforts and pleasures humans take for granted would not exist. And aspirations of billions for a better life would be t...]]></description>
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<title>James Hansen</title>
<description><![CDATA[    President Obama speaks of &quot;a planet in peril.&quot; The president and the brilliant people he appointed in energy and science know that we must move rapidly to carbon-free energy to avoid handing our children a planet that has passed climate tippi...]]></description>
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<title>Donald W. Lyons </title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Oil production from Canadas oil sands should be an important consideration in the discussions about the U.S. energy strategy. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the amount of recoverable reserves trapped in the oil sa...]]></description>
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<title>The Charleston Gazette: Neda</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Iranian theocracy is scrambling desperately to prevent public mourning for Neda Soltan, the 26-year-old woman who was gunned down and died on a Tehran street last week, literally in front of the whole world.  The tyrannical mullahs...]]></description>
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<title>Kevin DiGregorio</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Picture this: Thousands of high-paying jobs at all skill and education levels. The states coffers swelling. And your children and their children coming home to West Virginia to live and work.Not long ago, the Kanawha Valley had all tha...]]></description>
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<title>Robert E. Murray</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Perhaps the most destructive legislation in our countrys history will, as soon as next week, be voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives -- the Waxman/Markey Tax Bill in the guise of addressing climate change. It will have adverse...]]></description>
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<title>Preschool helps through 4th grade; why stop.</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I was once surprised at a conference to hear a knowledgeable and respected presenter disparage Head Start. He talked about this preschool experience for low-income children as if it were a sweet idea that should be patted on the head a...]]></description>
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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Once upon a time, politicians could hide behind the law</title>
<description><![CDATA[    In the bad old days, a shoddy West Virginia politician could commit an affront, be sued for it, pay a bundle of taxpayer money to end the suit - and hide the loss from the public in a secret settlement.  A Gazette crusade in the 1980s halted this type ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    <em>Want to go.</em>  <strong>Energy Independence Day celebration</strong>  <em>Free food, music and informational sessions.</em>  <em>WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 13 </em>  <em>WHERE: Mingo County Community College in Williamson.</em>  <em>INFO: jo...]]></description>
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<title>Readers forum: March 28, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[        Obamas America like Perons Argentina. Editor:Millions of Americans, mesmerized by his soaring, eloquent, and messianic rhetoric, checked reason at the door of the voting booth when they voted for Barack Obama. No other candidate even came close to ...]]></description>
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<title>The Gazette endorses</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <strong>National and statewide</strong>President: Barack Obama (D)U.S. Senate: Jay Rockefeller (D)Congress: Anne Barth (D)Governor: Joe Manchin (D)Supreme Court: Menis Ketchum (D), Margaret Workman (D)Attorney general: Darrell McGraw (D)Secretary of st...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[KANAWHA County has a number of incumbents and experienced newcomers on the ballot in the general election. Here are the best picks, as we see them: The only Kanawha circuit judge with opposition is Republican incumbent Paul Zakaib Jr., who faces Democrat J...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[KANAWHA Countys 30th District elects seven members to the Legislatures House of Delegates. We recommend five incumbents plus two others, all Democrats: Bonnie Brown, Nancy Guthrie, Barbara &quot;Bobbie&quot; Hatfield, Mark Hunt, Doug Skaff Jr., Sharon Spen...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Natalie Tennant is our choice for secretary of state in the Nov. 4 election. Shes an eager, industrious public figure, full of ideas. She grew up in Fairmont, earned both bachelors and masters degrees from West Virginia University, and was WVUs first femal...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[West Virginias finest legislator may be state Sen. Dan Foster, D-Kanawha, who serves selflessly and conscientiously. The physician-lawmaker is gentle-spoken, but takes diligent stands for average families. Dr. Foster has spearheaded several reforms - parti...]]></description>
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