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<title>Joseph Wyatt: All GOP hopefuls run same playbook</title>
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<title>Gene A. Budig and Alan Heaps: Colleges offer right fit for any student</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Many high school seniors, along with their parents, are currently on tenterhooks, anxiously scrutinizing their incoming e-mails and letters. They are in the midst of the college admission season, that annual rite of spring when student...]]></description>
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<title>Robert Rupp: The importance of optimism </title>
<description><![CDATA[      Each semester, at the start of my U.S. history survey class, I ask students to write down two adjectives that describe Americans. Year after year, common characteristics appear -- creative, independent, greedy, lazy, hardworking, self-centered, drive...]]></description>
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<title>Sen. Jay Rockefeller: Small business needs help</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Congress returned to the Capitol for the State of the Union speech and to get started on a full agenda of job-creating policies.  As I have in past years, I intend to focus my energy on finding new opportunities for job growth in...]]></description>
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<title>Charles McElwee: How can we make great teachers.</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- What matters most in student achievement. Teacher quality.  &quot;Having effective teachers rises to the top of every study as the most important factor in determining student success,&quot; says the Education Efficiency Audit of...]]></description>
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<title>James E. Smith: Mentoring for the new millennium</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As the old adage goes, age and treachery almost always win out over youth and vigor. Those of us who are long-of-tooth clearly understand these words. Having lived long enough, we have learned the tricks of our trades. Earned exper...]]></description>
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<title>Renate Pore: Happy anniversary to CHIP</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Congress is not very popular with the American public these days. No doubt, they missed a lot of opportunities to get things right. But one thing they did get right was the passage of the Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorizat...]]></description>
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<title>Thomas F. Guetzloff: Faculty pilots through problems at WVSU; students succeed</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I thank the public for their compliments, praise, and support for the West Virginia State University faculty during the past few months. Although recent developments have been difficult for the institution, the faculty is committed to ...]]></description>
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<title>Victor Grigoraci: Simplify the tax code</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;If the IRS was in business, it wouldnt get a single customer. Not because of taxes but because of the poor service. Ask President Clinton to make the current income tax laws simpler before he proposes any new laws.&quot;  This is...]]></description>
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<title>Brad McElhinny: Its Tebow time for West Virginia</title>
<description><![CDATA[WEST Virginia wants a cracker. In case you are unfamiliar, a cracker is the Tim Tebow of economics. Tim Tebow has become a mythical figure for making fourth-quarter miracles happen on the football field. When Tim Tebow touches water, it turns into Gatorade...]]></description>
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<title>Rep. Shelley Moore Capito: Highway plan will help state</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- This week, House Republicans rolled out a comprehensive transportation plan to fix our nations infrastructure and create jobs now and in the future. As a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I am honore...]]></description>
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<title>Wade Gilley: Social Security in danger</title>
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<title>Keith Humphreys: Scrips will stop meth labs</title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When I was growing up in West Virginia in the 1960s and 70s, many people I knew were damaging their health with alcohol or tobacco. But nothing I saw then compares to the epidemic of prescription drug and methamphetamine abus...]]></description>
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<title>Rob Byers: Do we blame Google or ourselves for loss of privacy.</title>
<description><![CDATA[                Google knows Im a guy.  OK, no big deal, my Gmail address includes the word &quot;Robert.&quot;  Google thinks it knows my age -- 55 to 64. It missed by more than a decade, but, hey, even supercomputers make mistakes.  It knows I have ties ...]]></description>
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<title>Jeremy M. Burnside: Hazing statutes outdated</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The University of Charleston and Tau Kappa Epsilon international fraternity ran wild under West Virginias vague and outdated anti-hazing law. Its up to the Legislature to repair things.  In September, UC and the nationwide frat...]]></description>
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<title>Patti Strand: Consider source when choosing next best friend</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One of the great animal welfare success stories of the last half-century is the end of dog overpopulation and wholesale euthanasia in many parts of the United States. After decades of effort, Americans embraced the message of responsib...]]></description>
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<title>Jorea M. Marple: Learning a foreign language enriches life, also essential in 21st century</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One-time presidential candidate Paul Simon once called the United States a &quot;linguistically malnourished&quot; nation.   Sadly, in the nearly 30 years since he made that assertion, little has changed in our nations appetite for lea...]]></description>
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<title>Paul D. Daugherty: Value of the federal charitable deduction</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As the New Year is underway, we take time to celebrate the generosity shared by many throughout 2011 and especially at the year-end. With our fellow neighbors and communities experiencing difficult financial times across the state and ...]]></description>
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<title>Bill Hilborn: Jobs, development depend on transportation plan, action</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As our state looks to enhance and build a thriving, growing and dynamic state, it will be critical that it is able to provide a 21st century network of roads, highways and bridges that can accommodate the mobility demands, employment a...]]></description>
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<title>Judy Rodd: Help create a masterpiece in the W.Va. Highlands</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- National parks create jobs, increase property values and anchor vibrant sporting, recreation, retirement/second-home and tourism industries. Thats why so many people are excited and working to &quot;create a masterpiece&quot; in th...]]></description>
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<title>Robert Rupp: The South Carolina primary</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In 1995, after Newt Gingrich led the Republican takeover the House of Representatives, I assigned a book on him for my political science course. After researching him, the students were divided: One half of the class predicted that...]]></description>
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<title>Mike Harman: Saving on energy bills is a gas</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Cutting energy use and cutting utility bills for homeowners and small businesses is not difficult. Why do I care.  Because coal-fired electric power use is the number one source of carbon dioxide emissions that cause climate change, an...]]></description>
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<title>Jamie P. Merisotis: W.Va. needs more college grads</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A recent editorial on these pages highlighted a tough scenario facing West Virginias when it comes to college completion. The challenges are real and as the state dives into a new year of economic uncertainty, a new vision is needed th...]]></description>
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