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<title>Joseph Wyatt: Pam Stenzel is in the business of deceit</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A fond look back at the controversial guest speaker at George Washington High School brings perspective. Her presentation is said to have elevated educational standards by advising young ladies that sex is so ugly and dirty that they s...]]></description>
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<title>Emily McComas: Everyone needs to know the risks of sex</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Last month, the principals of George Washington and Riverside high schools had Pam Stenzel come and speak on sexual abstinence. Since then, some GW students have informed the media that they were disturbed and upset by what she said. Katelyn Campbell, ...]]></description>
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<title>Wade Gilley: Are universities too big to fail.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Dark clouds are forming over Americas public universities as the Wall Street mind-set spreads across more of our institutions. A decade of excessive spending based largely on unlimited student loans is looming dangerously over a ma...]]></description>
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<title>Brooks McCabe: Investing in nature and prosperity</title>
<description><![CDATA[  <em>Natures Fortune</em>  <em>By Mark R. Tercek and Jonathan S. Adams</em>  <em>Basic Books, 198 pages., $26.99, hardcover.</em>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Any West Virginian interested in creating a competitive, self-sustaining economy should read Natures Fort...]]></description>
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<title>Howard Swint: It took courage to separate from Virginia</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One of the most heroic yet least chronicled chapters in the American Civil War is the admittance of West Virginia into Union statehood.  Conventional history often marks the event in passing, what with the tumultuous backdrop of a rapi...]]></description>
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<title>Rick Wilson: W.Va. is doing education reform right</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- During the last legislative session, the bill that took up the most time and generated the most controversy was Gov. Tomblins education bill. But to the credit of all parties, one key provision of the bill wasnt controversial at al...]]></description>
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<title>Jamal H. Khan: Earth will outlive destructive Man</title>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why, lying under a tree, chewing on a stalk of grass, natures wide vistas in front of you, you get this incredible feeling of peace and tranquility.  Nothing else in your condition has changed. Your problems and worries are still som...]]></description>
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<title>Donald W. Lyons: Its time for Congress to reconsider the ‘ethanol mandate for fuel</title>
<description><![CDATA[  It is important to all of us that Congress takes action this year to modify the &quot;ethanol mandate&quot; which requires Americans to use a specified amount of ethanol in the gasoline for cars and trucks.  Several years ago Congress set the mandated am...]]></description>
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<title>Richard Trumka and Kenny Perdue: Economy needs functioning Labor Board</title>
<description><![CDATA[Most people in West Virginia dont even know what the National Labor Relations Board is. Well, why should they. Heres why.  For decades, American labor law helped working people come together to have a voice on the job, which in turn gave them a say in our ...]]></description>
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<title>Elliot M. Namay Jr.: Bushs approval rating is disheartening</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ten years ago George W. Bush had a real pilot fly him to the deck of an aircraft carrier where he arrogantly strutted onto a podium in front of a giant &quot;Mission Accomplished&quot; banner to declare major combat in Iraq was ove...]]></description>
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<title>Brad McElhinny: Truancy law could hit many parents</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <a href="http://www.dailymail.com/News/201304290272" target="_blank">Parents hope to get a word in after sons truancy flap</a> <a href="http://kceamembers.org/J19 - Student Attendance.pdf" target="_blank">Kanawha attendance policy</a> CHARLESTON, W.Va....]]></description>
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<title>Melissa OSullivan: PROMISE Scholars arent keeping their promise</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia is not doing well in higher education. In fact, we have the lowest rate of college-educated residents in the nation. According to the U.S. Census Bureaus 2012 Statistical Abstract, as of 2009 only 17.3 percent of West Virginians hold a bachel...]]></description>
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<title>John P. David: Thousands die in American work places each year</title>
<description><![CDATA[Workers Memorial Day was April 28, a day to reflect on workers around the world who have contributed their lives trying to make a living for themselves and their families. In the United States, more than 4,500 are killed in American work places each year, ...]]></description>
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<title>Bob Ovitz: Natural gas to power our regions transportation future</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Improving air quality, increasing energy production, and enhancing security are all widely shared goals for our region and for the nation -- and the natural gas industry is making positive progress toward realizing them.  Across Appalachia, including a l...]]></description>
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<title>Gaylene Miller: Medicaid expansion a positive step for West Virginias uninsured</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin expanded West Virginians access to affordable, essential health coverage with his decision to join 25 other governors in supporting the expansion of Medicaid eligibility in their states.   Medicaid expansion in the Mountain State wi...]]></description>
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<title>Charles Maddox: Pot is not good for you</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- There are five basic categories of psychoactive substances: Stimulants, such as nicotine, cocaine and caffeine; depressants, including sedatives, anxiety reducing drugs, alcohol, sleeping pills and opioid pain killers; psychedelics, su...]]></description>
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<title>Christopher Swindell</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- An NBC story of May 8 arrived with little fanfare. An investigation revealed the FBI and some U.S. Attorney offices were routinely reading domestic emails without a warrant.  Consider the ramifications: Government violating the 4th Ame...]]></description>
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<title>Eric Ruf: Invest in students futures, bring health care to schools</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Taylor is a West Virginia student with cystic fibrosis, chronic pancreatitis, and other health-care issues and needs. These needs require her to see specialists in Cleveland at the Cystic Fibrosis Center and pain management specialists...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Gary Zuckett: Purchase of Harrison Power Station not in the public interest</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Why should Mon Power and Potomac Edison customers have to pay an extra 6 percent on their electric bills to bail out these utilities out-of-state parent company. That is exactly what they are proposing with a plan to purchase 80 percen...]]></description>
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<title>Dan Cook: Consumer protection was real</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- What with big corporate money buying underhanded political consultants and open-handed TV stations, it has become quite easy for them to exploit Lincolns admonition about fooling most people for a while. They dont care if they fool all...]]></description>
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<title>Perry Mann: Challenging truths is dangerous</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Must man always talk like other people or keep quiet. ... Not the slightest truth could show its head without arousing anger and jeers,&quot; wrote Emile Zola in 1866.   Zola could have, had he been asked, enumerated instances of...]]></description>
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<title>Charles McElwee: Pay school chief like a football coach</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I want to share with you what I believe should be the states No. 1 priority for achieving a bold and comprehensive review, and possible reformation, of the states public school system.   The West Virginia Board of Education, with the r...]]></description>
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<title>Book details fall of Harman Mining and tactics of Massey Energy</title>
<description><![CDATA[      <em>The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption. By Laurence Leamer. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 433 pages. Hardcover, $30.</em>    <strong>If you go:</strong> Author Laurence Leamer, along with Mingo County native and Pi...]]></description>
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<title>David McMahon: Theres enough money in the ground to drill for gas fairly</title>
<description><![CDATA[The vast wealth of the Marcellus Shale is something beyond our states collective experience and requires new thinking. Most importantly it means that our state needs to create and use our new wealth without making the same mistakes we made with coal.   The...]]></description>
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<title>Susanna Rodell: Solution to terrorism must be found</title>
<description><![CDATA[Does the name Luigi Galleani mean anything to you.  Unless youre very old, or a student of early 20th century anarchism, probably not. Yet this guy was the Osama bin Laden of his day, fostering a movement that advocated violent revolution, demonizing Ameri...]]></description>
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<title>Renate Pore: Lets see Capitos health reform plan</title>
<description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capitos recent column in the Sunday Gazette-Mail on the health reform law, also known as Obamacare, generated heat but shed little light on the complex subject of health-care reform.  Lets examine some facts about the American h...]]></description>
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<title>Health-care reform a good deal</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito is a smart and gifted politician. She is also extremely personable. On the rare occasions Ive had the opportunity to converse with her Ive always enjoyed it. However, I must admit that I was a bit puz...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Jessica Wehrle Carter: Mothers Day could honor all kinds of mothers</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Mothers Day is a bit depressing for an enormous number of women, and it is totally our fault. Rather than spend the day &quot;broadly&quot; focusing on the women who have provided love, comfort, and care whenever we needed it, i.e., th...]]></description>
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<title>Brenda Lee Green: The Constitution protects students, too</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Young people in this country are frequently treated as if theyre not old enough to have rights. Theyre often forced to put up with unconstitutional censorship, invasions of privacy, over reaching discipline and many struggle to get a g...]]></description>
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<title>May 10, 2013: Socialist Obama; Capitol Steps review; thanks; Humane Association</title>
<description><![CDATA[  <strong>Obama wants to make us a socialist nation</strong>  Editor:  Going into the fifth year of his presidency, Barack Obamas major secular/socialist policy initiatives are unraveling at the seams.   They are huge expensive/expansive machinations that ...]]></description>
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<title>Dan Radmacher: Representatives comments against EPA nonsense</title>
<description><![CDATA[Do West Virginias congressional representatives even listen to themselves when they spout their &quot;war on coal&quot; nonsense.   &quot;This administration is doing everything it can to destroy the coal industry,&quot; says Rep. Shelley Moore-Capito.  Re...]]></description>
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<title>Vicki S. Hinerman: Summers students enticed to test well</title>
<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Summers County High School has been named by the West Virginia Department of Education as a &quot;priority school.&quot; To receive federal Title I funds, the department is required to have a plan to increase test scores.  The plan i...]]></description>
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