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<title>Twister: Warming evidence.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Its almost a miracle that so few died in this weeks catastrophe in an Oklahoma City suburb. In comparison, 158 were killed by a similar twister two years ago in Joplin, Mo. Perhaps better warnings and shelters helped tornado-prone Oklahoma escape the w...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Erica Lord: Young victims not alone</title>
<description><![CDATA[          I grieve with the parents and families of Boston, Newtown, Aurora, Tucson and Virginia Tech as they look for ways to find meaning in such senseless tragedies. I am familiar with their pain and understand their search for a mission to make the los...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:35:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Agencies: Run them properly</title>
<description><![CDATA[Multitudes of small local agencies -- mostly quasi-governmental, living on tax money or state fees -- are necessary for the smooth function of society in West Virginia. But they must be operated conscientiously and openly, fully accountable to the public. ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Editorial: Unequal distribution of wealth</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ever since the Reagan Republican administration, the elite 1 percent of rich Americans has reaped ever-greater wealth. Their share of U.S. assets stayed flat from the 1940s to 1980, then spurted upward like a rocket.  Nobel Prize-winni...]]></description>
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<title>Editorial: Sad choices for speaker</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- During the recent legislative session, Delegates Doug Skaff, D-Kanawha, and Harry Keith White, D-Mingo, sponsored an idiotic bill requiring West Virginia police to arrest any U.S. judges, FBI agents, U.S. marshals or other federal offi...]]></description>
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<title>Bizarre: Far-right views</title>
<description><![CDATA[Angry letters to this newspaper sometimes accuse Sen. Joe Manchin of trying to &quot;take away our guns.&quot; But Manchins background check plan would let nearly everyone keep pistols, denying them only for criminals and psychotics. Unwittingly, the lette...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Two Gen. Pattons</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Mondays editorial about West Virginias upcoming sesquicentennial described leaders involved in the states stormy creation during the Civil War -- but a picture of Confederate commander George S. Patton inadvertently was replaced by a photo of his World...]]></description>
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<title>History: State heritage</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One month from today, after a long buildup, West Virginia will stage an extravaganza marking the 150th anniversary of the states birth. Thoughtful people should take time to ponder the deep significance of the Mountain States herit...]]></description>
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<title>Potpourri: May 20, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Elected officials around West Virginia, or their hand-picked appointees, sometimes commit crude, personal affronts such as groping female workers or making racial slurs. When lawsuits result, taxpayers are stuck with the tab. Lates...]]></description>
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<title>Tangle: School transfer rules</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Kanawha County school boards crackdown on families who send their children to schools outside their home districts is a mess.  The boards problem involves a few schools, notably in South Hills. Blessed with a high ratio of upper-income families, those ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Student loans: Severe burden</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Graduates of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine incur an average of $240,283 student loan debt, researchers of the Higher Education Policy Commission found. Next-worst was Marshall University medical school, where...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes, May 18, 2013</title>
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<title>Tumult: Washington uproars</title>
<description><![CDATA[Warring national politicians and TV talking heads endlessly nitpick over trivia.Morgantown native and WVU graduate Michael Tomasky, now an international political writer, predicts that far-right Republicans will try to impeach President Obama because of er...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Waste: Drug-ruined lives</title>
<description><![CDATA[Weve never understood why so many, many younger West Virginians are compelled to wreck their lives and their futures through dope. Its pointless, futile, self-destructive -- almost a death wish.  Police seized 288 meth labs in the state last year, and the ...]]></description>
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<title>Editorial: Coal down, gas up</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Another national report confirms that West Virginias economy is undergoing a historic transition: Mined-out mid-Appalachian coal operations are fading, while the new Marcellus gas industry booms. Easy-to-reach coal seams mostly are...]]></description>
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<title>Danger: Greenhouse buildup</title>
<description><![CDATA[A historic landmark occurred last week. Scientists at a Hawaii mountaintop observatory reported that carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million for the first time since the Pliocene Epoch -- 5 to 3 million years ago, long after ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bungles: CIA messes</title>
<description><![CDATA[The CIA secretly smuggled millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai over more than a decade, <em>The New York Times</em> revealed. Karzai confirmed the report. &quot;T...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Potpourri: May 13, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[WE hope Kanawha County schools learned a lesson from the stormy &quot;slut-shaming&quot; upheaval at George Washington High School. Outside church groups shouldnt be allowed to provide sex-hating fundamentalist speakers for school assemblies. Fliers given ...]]></description>
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<title>Predators: Sex horrors again</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sexual predators filled last weeks news. Three young women broke free from a Cleveland house where they had been imprisoned as sex slaves for a decade. And the Pentagon estimated that a sickening 26,000 sexual assaults were suffered by military personnel l...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Family values: Forgotten GOP ideal</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes U.S. politics seem like a ludicrous soap opera. Remember when the Republican Party and its fundamentalist wing sanctimoniously declared that &quot;family values&quot; are the heart of public life, requiring strict fidelity between spouses.Remembe...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes, May 11, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[MICHIGAN state Senate Majority Leader Rick Jones, a Republican, will introduce legislation aimed at stopping the use of welfare debit cards - called Bridge Cards in his state - to buy booze and to withdraw cash from ATMs at strip joints. &quot;My family ta...]]></description>
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