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<title>Charleston Daily Mail Ventline: Nov. 21, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[What did they do, bring that swine flu over here to kill all of our people. And so the other people could come in here and take over this country. Thats what its all about. Looks to be another nice day. Oh, I forgot, I have to ride KRT to work again. Ill r...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: Nov. 21, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[  I agree with the venter who said everyone who is fat cant help it and some people have thyroid problems. Some people also look at an elephant and think its a mouse with a thyroid problem.Thank you V-100 for playing the beautiful Christmas songs on your s...]]></description>
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<title>The Charleston Gazette -- Justice: New York terror trials</title>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes</title>
<description><![CDATA[WHILE the staff at Andrew Jackson Middle School studies ways to convert it into an &quot;Innovation Zone,&quot; reporter Zack Harold of the Daily Mail reminded readers this week of its opening in 1971, when it was Andrew Jackson Junior High - a school with...]]></description>
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<title>Gaylene Miller: W.Va. seniors win with House health bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston resident Jackie Henry and her husband are like thousands of seniors in our state who each year must pay for their Medicare premiums and prescription drugs.For Jackie Henry, it means her husband has to go back to work at 73, ...]]></description>
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<title>Health-care reform</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>Americans need health-care reform </strong>Editor:I would like to publicly thank the representatives in Congress who voted for the historic legislation that passed on Saturday, Nov. 7. We are finally at the brink of achieving real health-care refor...]]></description>
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<title>Obamas numbers dont withstand press scrutiny</title>
<description><![CDATA[IN my last year at Lakewood High School, I took a social studies class. The instructor allowed students to grade themselves. I gave myself an A in the first semester. That was the grade I received.I gave myself an A again in the second semester. I was give...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: Nov. 20, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>I read in Readers voice where someone is upset that a radio station is playing Christmas music two weeks before Thanksgiving. I went into the Elder Beerman store on Sept. 19 and they had their Christmas trees and decorations out already.</li><l...]]></description>
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<title>Morality: Right to health care</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Peoples rights are created through political processes -- as when the brand-new American states ratified the historic Bill of Rights, or when the French Revolution proclaimed the Rights of Man, or when the new United Nations adopted th...]]></description>
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<title>Joseph A. Main: Farmington disaster led to landmark safety law</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Today marks the 41st anniversary of the Farmington No. 9 Mine disaster, which killed 78 miners when an explosion ripped through the underground West Virginia coal mine. Like so many coal mine tragedies that came before, hundreds gather...]]></description>
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<title>Catholics; health reform; Rosie</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>Catholic teaching on gays is bigoted</strong>Editor:This is in response to Monsignor Sadies reflections on the popes invitation to return to the Mother Church. No proposition that is postulated on a faulty premise can contain truth, however eloquen...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: Nov. 19, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[        <ul><li>The Gazette editorial writers could take a lesson from Ms. Maurice and her article that appeared in the Saturday paper. I would like to see the article reproduced and maybe even elaborated on in the Gazette in the coming weeks.</li><li>To t...]]></description>
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<title>Coffin nails: State smoking worst </title>
<description><![CDATA[Sadly, West Virginia has Americas worst rate of deadly cigarette smoking and exposure to dangerous second-hand smoke inside homes. Thats the finding of a Centers for Disease Control survey released last week. A CDC announcement said:&quot;Among states, smo...]]></description>
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<title>Brian Noland: College gives all a chance </title>
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<title>Nov. 19: Activist judges; Capito vote; health bill; flu in prison; health care</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>Activist judges do harm to the state </strong>Editor: While your recent editorial (&quot;Circuit court: Webster outstanding&quot;) heaped praise on one particular nominee for Kanawha County Circuit Court, the piece missed the proper role of judges ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>On Friday there were close to a dozen Putnam County school buses at the Nitro bowling alley. If they would spend more time in classroom with fewer &quot;educational field trips,&quot; we wouldnt have to consider year-round school.</li><li>The a...]]></description>
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<title>Jobless: Painful decline </title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia lost 22,600 jobs from mid-2008 to mid-2009, according to reports at the 16th annual state Economic Outlook Conference at Charlestons Embassy Suites. Kanawha County suffered the worst hit, with 1,388 more occupations wiped out.&quot;Things wer...]]></description>
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<title>Robert K. Holliday: Protect our civil liberties</title>
<description><![CDATA[I lived in Logan County for a few years in my youth, where schools were of course segregated and the racial climate was dreadful. At school and out in public, too many African-Americans were called the N-word. Theatres relegated blacks to the infamous uppe...]]></description>
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<title>Nov. 18: PEIA hearing; national anthem; Social Security; health care</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>PEIA hearing was a farce </strong>Editor:I went to a PEIA public meeting on the fat tax and listened to PEIA director Ted Cheatham, salary $140,000, tell us that West Virginia workers, lowest-paid in the nation, are the cause of rapidly increasing ...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: Nov. 17, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[  If you cant accept the &quot;typical&quot; West Virginians you are missing a lot. Though we are also atypical we love this state, its beauty, climatic advantages cultural heritage and the friendliness and resiliency of its people. Some day you may be abl...]]></description>
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<title>Cheats: Hiding money abroad</title>
<description><![CDATA[Rich Americans who evade U.S. taxes by hiding money overseas are in peril these days. The IRS is flushing illicit cash out of secret foreign bank accounts in a historic cleanup. Prosecutions, fines and back collections are snowballing.  The crackdown has b...]]></description>
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<title>Wess Harris: Blair Mountain belongs to public</title>
<description><![CDATA[We live in a time when Big Coal sponsors &quot;Labor Day&quot; events. Miners are portrayed in the media as a greedy and shortsighted lot caring only for todays job and ignoring any responsibility for future generations. Our new State Museum proclaims that...]]></description>
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<title>Nov. 17: Coal economy; spare a dollar; the Big Tent.</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mono-economy limits our choices Editor:Im the wife of a disabled, underground coal miner. We are both lifelong residents of West Virginia.Since someone who sells mining equipment labels anyone who takes a stand against any wrongdoing by a coal company an e...]]></description>
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<title>Equal: Women creeping up</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When Congress passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, working American women averaged just 59 cents in earnings for each dollar received by men doing the same work. In the half-century since then, U.S. females have progressed -- at the speed...]]></description>
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<title>The Rev. Ron English: W.Va. tackling health disparity</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Given the historical marginalization of people of color in our history, the failure of the health-care system is actually the success of the health-care system to sustain correlations between structured inequalities and health st...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[<strong>Jefferson doesnt need more gambling</strong>Editor:Citizens in Jefferson County face a choice Dec. 5: Will we fall for the propaganda Penn National is spinning.  Or will we stand up for what we know to be the truth - that we do not need more gambli...]]></description>
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<title>Kanawha Players: Valuable to the Valley</title>
<description><![CDATA[      Now is the winter of our discontent, a former thespian might say, for West Virginias most revered theatrical group. Kanawha Players is suffering Darkness at Noon.  The 88-year-old drama troupe is floundering in financial and staff problems, as relate...]]></description>
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<title>Monsignor Edward Sadie: Anglicans moving further away</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The response of worldwide Anglicans (and Episcopalians) to Pope Benedicts invitation &quot;to return to the Mother Church&quot; will outweigh anything I say, but I offer my reflections.  Beautiful churches, inspiring Evensongs, dev...]]></description>
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<title>Gerald Beller: Senate violates one man, one vote</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Let me ask a question which few West Virginians think about, given the astute leadership and sheer courage shown by Sens. Byrd and Rockefeller on a wide variety of issues: Have we been denied progressive legislation -- and more par...]]></description>
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<title>Foundation helps guide philanthropy</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <em>This statement on the urgent need for philanthropy was issued by the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.</em>  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation has been a friend and neighbor to communities and nonprofit organizations withi...]]></description>
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<title>Health-care debate: Dont use Canadian system as an example</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Salim RatnaniCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Dr. Jamal Khan wrote about the urgent need for health-care reform, which I agree with. But I would like to correct his misconception regarding the Canadian model of care, as I have lived, trained and worked in the Canad...]]></description>
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<title>Health-care debate: We cannot afford to miss this opportunity to reform</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Dan FosterCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Like most in my profession, both now and in the past, I became a physician to provide service. All of us grew to realize that there is nothing more rewarding to the human spirit than a grateful patient and family. Despite ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[By James E. JoyCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Good news,&quot; your editorial trumpeted, &quot;Bill improves Medicare.&quot; It seems youve joined the chorus of those imitating Chatty Kathy dolls in Congress spewing out that incessant mantra of &quot;affordabl...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[<li>  On Veterans Day, I took advantage of Applebees offer of a free meal for veterans and soldiers. I must say it was a wonderful experience. The food was great and the service was excellent. </li><li>  It is understandable after a tragedy like Fort Hood ...]]></description>
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<title>Ventline: Nov. 14, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[<li>  How can the federal government force you to purchase insurance with your money that you worked for. Is this liberty. Is this freedom. It is time to stand up and revolt, not only in the ballot box, but in the street. <li>  Im a Bible believer. There a...]]></description>
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<title>The Charleston Gazette -- Guilty: CIA agents convicted</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Little noticed, the Bush-Cheney administration was found guilty of international crime last week.Twenty-three current and former CIA agents were given prison sentences -- in absentia -- for kidnapping a Muslim preacher in Italy and smu...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes</title>
<description><![CDATA[Short takes HOW much is a college student worth. Judging from action this week by the town of Shepherdstown to annex the dormitories at Shepherd University, a college student is worth about $100 a year in video lottery taxes.  Some of the money from video ...]]></description>
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<title>Physical therapy; school functions</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>Back physical therapy student loan act</strong> Editor:As a physical therapy student, it is important for me and my classmates to have the opportunity to practice in underserved communities. The Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>I am referring to a story in the Wednesday Gazette. Could the stone found at the Fort Boreman Historical Park inscribed &quot;A.P. Jones 1861&quot; have been his burial place.  I hope they left that stone where they found it.</li><li>I think th...]]></description>
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<title>Grandeur: Drawing thousands</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Time after time, West Virginians have been told: The states long-range future depends heavily on tourism, as the serene majesty of the mountains will draw ever-greater multitudes of harried visitors seeking refuge from the hectic, cong...]]></description>
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<title>Peter Schaeffer: W.Va., U.S. must switch to alternative energy</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia should pay attention to two debates: Congress &quot;cap and trade&quot; plan to buy and sell allowances for greenhouse gas emissions and U.N. negotiations over climate change. Both will impact West Virginias energy indust...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[<strong>Hypocritical <em>Gazette</em> should admit its own bias</strong>Editor:Thank you for the editorial exposing the Fox News bias. I laughed so hard I had to rush to the bathroom before I soiled myself. Fortunately, I had something appropriate to wipe ...]]></description>
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<title>Readers Voice: Nov. 11, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[        <li>Could we please stop referring to the shooter at Fort Hood as a &quot;major&quot;. He has disgraced and dishonored his rank and should only be referred to by his last name.</li>   <li>Do you want to know why liberals hate Fox News. It is becaus...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The guys at the Toyota plant should be careful. The corporation will close shop and pull out faster than you can say &quot;contract.&quot; Then there will be nothing left but a big empty building. To the reader who wants to annex Charleston for a populatio...]]></description>
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<title>Massacre</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Did the slaughter of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood and wounding of 30 others arise from fanaticism, or from strains of warfare, or from the pistol mentality, or from a personal emotional breakdown - or from what. Those questions loom a week...]]></description>
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<title>Julian Martin: Freedom of speech threatened</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Our constitution says that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the freedom of speech. George Washington declared that if the freedom of speech is taken away, we can be led like sheep to the slaughter. Ben Franklin knew that there ca...]]></description>
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<title>Readers forum: Motorcyclists, Christians, Public option</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>Pagans do not represent most bikers</strong> Editor:The Easy Rider image of the Pagan Motorcycle Club trials does not represent todays motorcycle enthusiast.Todays motorcycle enthusiast is not the 20-something kid you picture with a three-foot ZZ T...]]></description>
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<title>No War Day.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    TODAY, America will hear multitudes of tributes to war-fighters, past and present. Praise of young Americans who sacrifice for their country is customary on this holiday.But a grumpy old veteran, much-beloved Andy Rooney, devoted his &quot;60 Minutes&q...]]></description>
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Aaron Glantz: Prevent veteran suicides</title>
<description><![CDATA[This Veterans Day, lets do more to prevent our troops from taking their own lives. Eighteen American war veterans kill themselves every day. One thousand former soldiers receiving care from the Department of Veterans Affairs attempt suicide every month. In...]]></description>
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