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<title>Vent Line: May 25, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Gas prices have jumped 20 cents in one day and Memorial Day isnt even here yet. Seriously.  The IRS can try to get hold of peoples medical records, but they wont get very far because of HIPAA laws. Your medical records are private and cant be given out t...]]></description>
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<title>Readers Voice: May 25, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[  <em>Express your opinion on any subject you wish. Not all comments are published. Call 304-357-4451 or email <a href="mailto:readersvoice@wvgazette.com">readersvoice@wvgazette.com</a>.</em>  Someone needs to tell Kallie Cart and Rick Lord on the May 21 n...]]></description>
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<title>Eluding taxes: Offshore gimmicks</title>
<description><![CDATA[Average West Virginians cant sneak their money into foreign shelters to duck U.S. taxes -- but billionaires and rich corporations, with their high-priced lawyers and accountants, do so constantly. This week, a U.S. Senate committee held a hearing on Apple ...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes, May 25, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[IF Ohio ever wants to change its nickname from the Buckeye State, maybe Ohio should try the @#$% State. An online marketing company, Marchex, found Ohioans cuss more than anyone else in the nation, based on more than 600,000 customer phone calls to busines...]]></description>
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<title>The Rev. Matthew J. Watts: Convicted felons need their citizenship restored</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Many are touting the potential positive economic benefits of the proposed comprehensive immigration reform bill drafted by the U.S. Senate Gang of Eight. One of the key components of the proposed bill is that it would provide a pathway...]]></description>
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<title>Hoppy Kercheval: Medically assisted aid in dying.</title>
<description><![CDATA[A little over four years ago, my ailing father decided he was ready to, as he phrased it, &quot;leave this vale of tears.&quot; He was 87, and dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.A candid conversation with his doctor revealed he had six to 18 ...]]></description>
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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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<title>Readers Voice: May 24, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[* To the reader referring to Orwells &quot;1984&quot;: How right you are. Jay Carney is Squealer, without doubt.  * The reason it seems that you have a revolving door of news reporters on your local station is because the stations hire people who are just ...]]></description>
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<title>Chris Blankenship: Mining harms recreation in West Virginia</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In April a federal appeals court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the right to revoke permits for mountaintop removal mines under the Clean Water Act. The EPA had previously revoked the permit of the Spruce Mine in Lo...]]></description>
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<title>May 24, 2013: Job-seeking; past leaders; purpose of school</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>History major still looking for work</strong> <strong>Edi</strong><strong>tor:</strong>This history major is a beleaguered job-seeker. Im not sure why I am continuously passed over. I bathe regularly, making my unique scent of humanity only bloodho...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: May 23, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Express your opinion on any subject you wish. Not all comments are published. Call 304-357-4451 or email <a href="mailto:readersvoice@wvgazette.com">readersvoice@wvgazette.com</a>.    The reason that they cant find any lifeguards at the swimming pools is...]]></description>
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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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<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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<title>May 23, 2013: Manchin and guns; bicycling; gay marriage</title>
<description><![CDATA[  <strong>Manchin looking out for himself</strong>  Editor:  Your editorial about the gun mess was appalling. You accuse conservatives of caring more for &quot;pistol-packers than for slaughtered first-graders.&quot; Really. That argument is intellectually...]]></description>
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<title>Readers Voice: May 22, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[  <em>Express your opinion on any subject you wish. Not all comments are published. Call 304-357-4451 or email <a href="mailto:readersvoice@wvgazette.com">readersvoice@wvgazette.com</a>.</em>  The IRS should get a medal for being alert in the performance o...]]></description>
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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>Max Gottlieb: We can prevent diabetes</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Diabetes is a growing threat to Americans health, with 26 million Americans diagnosed with Type II diabetes today. The disease increases the risks of vision problems, neurological disease and heart disease. It forever changes the lives...]]></description>
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<title>Ed Rabel: Lest we forget</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- First, the Circuit Court of Kanawha County denied Katelyn Campbell relief from threats by her principal, George Aulenbacher. Then, Campbell continued to be threatened by friends of Aulenbacher who sent her hate mail and spit on her at ...]]></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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<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>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>May 21, 2013: Corporate greed</title>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>Americans still losing to corporate greed </strong><strong>Editor:</strong>When I was growing up, I was taught that hard work and perseverance will get you ahead. That doesnt seem to be the case anymore. In 2004, after 22 years underground, I lost ...]]></description>
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<title>Readers voice: May 20, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[Express your opinion on any subject you wish. Not all comments are published. Call: 304-357-4451 or email: <a href="mailto:readersvoice@wvgazette.com">readersvoice@wvgazette.com</a>.    Die-hard Obama supporters are saying the GOP is making up the recent s...]]></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>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>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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<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>Vent Line: May 18, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[  The IRS thugs who discriminated against the tea party should be put in jail for a long time. This is a corrupt administration. They need to be in the slammer for 10 to 15 years. Maybe that will teach them, but then again, maybe not.  There are probably t...]]></description>
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<title>Readers Voice: May 18, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[  <em>Express your opinion on any subject you wish. Not all comments are published. Call 304-357-4451 or email <a href="mailto:readersvoice@wvgazette.com">readersvoice@wvgazette.com</a>.</em>  With the inspector generals report confirming that the IRS targ...]]></description>
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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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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes, May 18, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- WEST Virginians have become so accustomed to the state trying to treat the symptoms of poverty that they forget there is a cure - economic growth. Thus, the effects of a thriving private sector come as something of a revelation.The...]]></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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<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[  <em>Express your opinion on any subject you wish. Not all comments are published. Call 304-357-4451 or email <a href="mailto:readersvoice@wvgazette.com">readersvoice@wvgazette.com</a>.</em>  The only terrestrial radio I listened to was the four hours Joh...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:18:03 -0400</pubDate>
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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>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>Readers voice: May 16, 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Express your opinion on any subject you wish. Not all comments are published. Call 304-357-4451 or email <a href="mailto:readersvoice@wvgazette.com">readersvoice@wvgazette.com</a>.  Shame on the Gazette for publishing a cartoon on their opinion page that...]]></description>
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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>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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