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Traumatic
WVU chance for reform
$1.2 trillion deficit
Even before he takes office, President-elect Obama is inheriting a history-shattering nightmare: the worst federal deficit America ever incurred.
Petty
Petty, petty, petty
Traditionally, all newly elected U.S. presidents stay at Blair House, the large official U.S. guest home complex across from the White House, until their inaugurals. But when Barack Obama asked to move his family into Blair early, so his daughters could begin school, he was told that all its rooms were booked. So the Obamas moved into the Hay-Adams Hotel instead.
In OPINION: West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin has become a national symbol of questionable justice.
Fairness: Controversial case
A couple of years ago, West Virginia University's Board of Governors was too political, too much an assembly of insiders. It chose Mike Garrison as WVU president chiefly for his political connections. In fact, rumors said a nationwide search for president was a smoke screen, because several governors privately chose Garrison before the search was held.
Future
Democratic trend
Back in 1969, Kevin Phillips wrote The Emerging Republican Majority predicting conservative domination of America's political future. His forecast generally came true for more than three decades. White fundamentalists flocked to the GOP. President Nixon's "Southern Strategy," subtly appealing to racial prejudice, swung Dixie from solid Democratic to solid Republican. Blue-collar white gun-lovers also joined the GOP base, which traditionally included the wealthy and militarists.
Robert Rupp
Sago disaster was Katrina of mining
It is the most invisible industry in America. Its workers labor underground and out of public sight to mine a fuel used to generate electricity to produce light.
Jim Sconyers
Manchin coal plans leave questions
Gov. Manchin continues to see his job to be Big Coal's cheerleader-in-chief. This time he's beating the drum wildly for a plan to locate a coal-to-liquid plant in Mingo County. Coal-to-liquid is a process to manufacture liquid vehicle fuel from coal.
OPINION: Doctor invites public to pre-inauguration meetings in Beckley, Welch
Let's participate in prayer, discussion to help Obama administration
As a nation we are marching proudly from the shackles of the past. The election of Barack Obama is admired both at home and abroad.
Joseph Wyatt
Family raises a furor
In the community of Easton, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Heath Campbell have named their boy after the Fuehrer. Little Adolf Hitler Campbell, now 3, was recently shown romping happily on the family's living-room floor.
William F. Shughart II
New 'New Deal' will create jobs but not a cure
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Readers' voice; Jan. 7, 2009
Readers' forum: Jan. 7, 2009
- Strip mining helps local economy
- Older citizens crucial to workforce
- New gun laws unnecessary
- Bless our country and government
- Treeline a hazard to Nitro drivers
- Metro government wouldn't be legal
- On 'redistribution,' Obama meant jobs
- Ban, don't regulate, coal waste dams
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