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<title>Nov. 8, 2009: Pollution; table games; mining</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <strong>Dependence on cheap energy leads to pollution</strong>  Editor:  I read John McCoys Oct. 25 article (&quot;Dunkard polluters need to be punished&quot;) expressing the outrage of so many West Virginians to this needless catastrophe.  Then I read...]]></description>
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<title>Mystery: What rooster group.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Strangely, a man in a chicken suit appeared at the state Capitol, passing out leaflets advocating &quot;Cockfighting at West Virginia Casinos.&quot; He refused to give his name. A phone number on the leaflet was disconnected. An organization cited on t...]]></description>
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<title>Jay Rockefeller: Ill support no bill that threatens coal</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When I first came to West Virginia more than 40 years ago, it was to work with coal miners and their families -- good people who worked hard and risked their lives so that the rest of America could turn the lights on and build a st...]]></description>
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<title>Timothy U. Phillips: W.Va. States ROTC has proud history</title>
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<title>Andrew Lane: Future is bright for McJunkin Red Man</title>
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<title>Fort Hood tragedy: Nobody expects soldiers to face this kind of thing at home</title>
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<title>Wayne Madsen: AARPs efforts spurred reforms that aid todays seniors</title>
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<title>Kevin Alexander Gray: We need to prevent future Greensboro massacres</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre. We need to recall it so something like it never happens again.On the morning of Nov. 3, 1979, at the corner of Carver and Everitt streets in Greensboro, N.C., 40 Ku Klux Klansmen and American...]]></description>
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<title>Nov. 7, 2009: EPA vs. coal</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <strong>Anti-coal bureaucrats toying with our lives</strong>  Editor:  The EPA has arbitrarily decided to subject 79 pending coal mining permits in Appalachia to a so-called &quot;enhanced review&quot; process. These officials in Washington dont seem t...]]></description>
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<title>Vent line: Nov. 7, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>Could the newspaper possibly print a list of counties where smoking is still allowed. How much is the individual cost of all 55 counties for their health departments.</span><p class="MsoPlainText"><span>There are a lot of coyo...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: Nov. 7, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[<ul><li>I would like to know if &quot;Aqualung&quot; [Bill Dunn] was ever located.</li><li>I thought there was only one comic page in the newspaper, but then I read the Readers voice comments.</li><li>I am an 82-year-old senior citizen and I read two newsp...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes</title>
<description><![CDATA[WITH the passage of Issue 3 in Ohio, casinos will soon open in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Toledo.This will pose a challenge to the two racetracks in the Northern Panhandle, and to a lesser extent to the racetrack in Nitro.  West Virginia lawmakers...]]></description>
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<title>Good news: Bill improves Medicare</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Last week, fearmongering House Republican leader John Boehner tried to scare American seniors with claims that the House of Representatives health reform bill contains &quot;massive cuts&quot; in Medicare that &quot;would have a negative impact on seni...]]></description>
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<title>Hoppy Kercheval: A giant health bill is not the cure</title>
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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>Readers voice: Nov. 6, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[I live on Greenland Circle in Spring Hill and just wanted to say that our South Charleston Public Works Department is amazing. Please know that the South Charleston residents appreciate you and all your hard work, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Teabaggers...]]></description>
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<title>Fizzle: Lack of vision</title>
<description><![CDATA[    BACK in the 1960s, Charleston had 86,000 population and Kanawha County had 253,000. County schools had 62,000 students. But erosion of the Valleys industrial base and rising automation slowly wiped out thousands of jobs. Now Charleston is slipping belo...]]></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>Respect; obituaries; fat tax; sweat lodge deaths</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong><em>Gazette</em> should show respect for humans</strong> Editor:In regard to a recent <em>Gazette</em> editorial concerning population: each time the <em>Gazette</em> addresses this issue, it refers to the human race as a &quot;swarm,&quot; giving ...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: Nov. 5, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>This is for the West Virginia State Police and also to the deputy sheriffs: We would like to thank you for the added patrols on Cabin Creek. We hope to see you again next year.</li><li>I wish the Gazette would omit pictures of beautiful slain a...]]></description>
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<title>Public option: Wimpy House plan</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the Washington struggle for universal medical insurance, the House of Representatives has produced a mouse of a &quot;public option&quot; plan that would give insurance companies and hospitals little reason to keep health-care premiums and costs down. I...]]></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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<title>Nov. 4, 2009: State roads; power lines; health insurance</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <strong>Conference to address transportation crisis</strong>  Editor:  West Virginians for Better Transportation will host a statewide transportation conference Nov. 10 at the Country Inn &amp; Suites/Mountaineer Conference Center in Beckley. I want to...]]></description>
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<title>Nov. 5, 2009: Future without coal; in defense of Casey; Capito inaccurate</title>
<description><![CDATA[Seeing the future without coal Editor:I am writing to let you know that I was appalled by the placement of ads played during the WVU-Marshall football game claiming that the coal industry is &quot;under attack&quot; by people who dont understand and dont c...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: Nov. 4, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>I just finished reading the editorial concerning fairness and the Fox News fiasco. I dont know who wrote it; I dont really care. I just have one thing to say: It was a crock.</li><li>As mentioned in Mr. Kablers article on Nov. 1 and as a state ...]]></description>
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<title>Universal: Medical human right</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Canada provides universal medical care for every Canadian. England does likewise for every Briton. Ditto for France, Germany, Scandinavia, Japan and virtually all other advanced democracies.  Residents of those nations know they live in compassionate c...]]></description>
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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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<title>Readers voice: Nov. 3, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[The recent article in the Gazette said, &quot;West Virginia ranks as the worst place in America to get a good nights sleep and the reason may be linked to obesity.&quot; No wonder we have so many fat, angry people walking around in West Virginia. It all re...]]></description>
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<title>GOP future: Wide or narrow.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Is the Republican Party flexible enough to include leaders who support gay equality and womens right to choose. Or is the GOP limited to the hard-right fundamentalist fringe. An election today in upstate New York seems to suggest that the latter is the...]]></description>
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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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<title>Nov. 3, 2009: Fox biased; climate change debate; Frontier doing well</title>
<description><![CDATA[Fair and balanced. Not even close Editor:Journalism was once a highly respected profession, using Walter Cronkite as a model, but Rush Limbaugh, the leader of the Republican Party, destroyed the credibility of the press by sensationalizing the news with hi...]]></description>
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<title>Silly protest: Partisan sniping </title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The head of the states Democratic Party, lawyer Nick Casey of Charleston, has been recommended by U.S. Sens. Robert C. Byrd and Jay Rockefeller to be a federal judge. If President Obama accepts their recommendation (and theres no reaso...]]></description>
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<title>Potpourri</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Cynics might think that little will change in Washington, regardless of whos elected, but it isnt true. Last week, Democrats in Congress expanded the federal &quot;hate crimes&quot; law to protect gays from assaults by bigots. It was a...]]></description>
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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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<title>Nov. 2: Brian Good</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Killing of Brian Good was not justified Editor:As a convicted felon serving a sentence in the Division of Corrections for a very similar incident as Brian Goods, and after seeing the video shown on the news, it seems to me that the tragic ending of bot...]]></description>
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<title>Ventline: Oct. 31, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <li>Loved the venter who wrote about leaders and Congress taking stupid pills. I think three-fourths of the people in the world are taking stupid pills.</li>   <li>After a recent first and much-resented round-trip on the West Virginia Turnpike since th...]]></description>
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<title>Readers Voice: Oct. 31, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[        <li>The use of credit cards at fast-food restaurants and stores provides a handy monthly expense record. By using them, you wont receive change containing counterfeit money. You wont become a victim of &quot;identity theft&quot; unless you give the...]]></description>
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<title>Genocide: Religio-ethnic horror</title>
<description><![CDATA[Evidence of a monstrous &quot;hate crime&quot; -- mass extermination and &quot;ethnic cleansing&quot; of Bosnias Muslims in the 1990s -- was presented last week as former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzics genocide trial began at the International Crimi...]]></description>
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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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<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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<title>Oct. 31, 2009: Bridge Day traffic; bears</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <strong>Stop closing whole bridge on Bridge Day</strong>  Editor:  I do not think it is right for the state and the town of Fayetteville to close down both sides of the New River Bridge.   They allowed one side of the bridge to be open to traffic up un...]]></description>
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>The Charleston Gazette -- Fairness: Fox News fracas</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Most news media have split personalities. In a typical newspaper, the news columns are meant to be purely objective and nonpartisan - while the editorial page (like this one) preaches political and social opinions reflecting the wo...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes</title>
<description><![CDATA[      THE photograph of an unhappy John DuVall, 4, receiving his swine flu vaccination at school probably brought a few chuckles from readers. The steady supply of lollipops for the vaccinated probably brought back a few memories as well.  Back in the 1950...]]></description>
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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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<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>Readers voice: Oct. 30, 2009</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <ul><li>I am always amazed at the mentality of the people of this state. But I was truly amazed to read the story on the front page of the Gazette about those who want to legalize cockfighting. You wouldnt print the words I have to describe those peopl...]]></description>
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<title>Quagmire: Afghan war futility</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Fourteen U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan Monday, followed by eight more Tuesday, bringing the October toll to 55, the worst monthly loss. This painful tally is doubly tragic because most Americans now realize that the costly U.S...]]></description>
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