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<title>Lockup: Why waste people.</title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two proposals are before the Legislature. One would force taxpayers to fund a $200 million new prison to house West Virginias overabundant felons. The other would solve the prison overcrowding crisis by putting more drug abus...]]></description>
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Editorial: Dropouts are a terrible waste</title>
<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va -- In his State of the Union address, President Obama said America is damaged painfully because nearly one-third of high school students fail to graduate. He called for a new national standard requiring every student to remain in school ...]]></description>
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<title>Minerals: Create a nest egg</title>
<description><![CDATA[    West Virginia should start an &quot;Economic Diversification Trust Fund,&quot; using extra severance taxes from gas, oil and coal. Thats a suggestion by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. It recommends a trust fund modeled after those creat...]]></description>
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<title>Potpourri: Feb. 6, 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[    West Virginians are understanding. Nobody blames Rep. Shelley Capito because her father, former Gov. Arch Moore, went to prison for corruption.  Nobody blames Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin because his father, former Sheriff Earl Tomblin, went to prison twice f...]]></description>
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<title>History: State roots entwined</title>
<description><![CDATA[    This is Black History Month, a good time to recall that the creation of West Virginia was somewhat a black history event. The Mountain State was born because the Civil War erupted over Northern efforts to curb slavery.  In the early 1800s, the Kanawha ...]]></description>
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<title>Komen: Frantic retreat</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Republican Karen Handel ran for governor of Georgia two years ago, partly on a fundamentalist platform to revoke womens right to choose abortion. She vowed to halt government aid to Planned Parenthood, the womens health and birth control agency. She wa...]]></description>
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes </title>
<description><![CDATA[LIBERALS say Obamacare is not government-run health care, but given the many edicts from the federal bureaucracy on what insurers must cover soon, its obvious that is not true. The latest rule from on high is a requirement that all health insurance policie...]]></description>
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<title>Editorial: Hiding state records</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In private business and personal life, people may hide some activities, exercising their right of privacy. But government is different. All government agencies are owned by the public.  Government officials are paid by taxpayers. There...]]></description>
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<title>Editorial: Tragic CO posioning</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nearly everyone feels safe while checking into an attractive, modern, well-outfitted hotel like the Holiday Inn Express on Corridor G. Its horrible to realize that a fluke malfunction can turn the secure accommodation into a deatht...]]></description>
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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Birth control: Now a human right</title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Believe it or not, birth control once was a crime in America. At the start of the 20th century, nurse Margaret Sanger began crusading for the right of women to avoid endless, recurring pregnancies. She was jailed eight times ...]]></description>
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Editorial: Shady leaders in West Virginia</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In the past, West Virginia was notorious for crooked politicians. Not only did Gov. W.W. Barron and Gov. Arch Moore go to federal prison, but also scores of lesser politicos were caught in corruption. The Mountain State gained ...]]></description>
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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Proof: Expand DNA evidence</title>
<description><![CDATA[      Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable in criminal prosecutions. Its better if police can produce solid physical evidence such as fingerprints, surveillance videos, blood samples -- and the supreme master proof: DNA.  Deoxyribonucleic acid --...]]></description>
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<title>Potpourri: Jan. 30, 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[        Multitudes of West Virginia thieves steal metal, which proves that scrap has value. An abandoned railroad alongside Elk River from Charleston to Coonskin Park contains tons of old steel rails, and even a wrecked railway car. Maybe city-county offic...]]></description>
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<title>Cyber Age: Snowballing change</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Heres remarkable news: During the holiday gift-giving season, the number of Americans owning tablet computers or e-readers leaped by millions, jumping from 18 percent of the adult population to 29 percent.  A new Pew survey says the upsurge occurred mo...]]></description>
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<title>Savings: Peace dividend</title>
<description><![CDATA[During his State of the Union address, President Obama lauded a gigantic &quot;peace dividend&quot; that will flow from ending former President Bushs wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and from downsizing the U.S. military. Taxpayers will save hundreds of billi...]]></description>
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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes </title>
<description><![CDATA[WEST Virginia is one of the few states without a lieutenant governor. Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall aims to keep it that way. He told reporters the state does not need to create another state position with a high salary and staff simply to wait...]]></description>
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<title>Censorship: Outlandish struggle</title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- During Kanawha Countys infamous 1974 fundamentalist uprising over &quot;godless textbooks,&quot; a censorship group called Citizens for Decency Through Law sent an agent to Charleston to help mobilize evangelical protests aga...]]></description>
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<title>Editorial: Obama draws battle lines in State of the Union</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was called a State of the Union address, but it actually was a foundation for the 2012 presidential contest.  On Tuesday night, President Obama essentially drew a battle line between his own Democratic Party, which serves mainstream...]]></description>
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