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Bigotry
AROUND America, various commentators are painting West Virginia in unflattering hues, alleging that mountain white prejudice was a large factor in last week's strong vote against black Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Openness
CONGRATULATIONS to Putnam County Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding for standing up to pressure to conceal the outcome of 60 malpractice cases involving discredited former doctor John A King.
Correction
Obama
West Virginia's senior U.S. senator - in fact, the whole nation's senior U.S. senator - will cast his superdelegate vote for Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president.
Amtrak
The fight to preserve Amtrak is becoming more important as Americans face $4 gasoline prices, and desperately need choices in traveling. Recent months have seen an increase in people riding the rails.
Terry Gruber
There are many administrative things that could have been done several years ago that would have averted the current crisis in West Virginia's Birth to Three program.
Jan Vineyard
Because trucks haul virtually all consumer goods in the United States, rising fuel costs increase the cost of everything transported by truck, including food, clothing and medical supplies.
Don Soifer
If you own and maintain your mailbox, should a government agency really have the right to tell you how you can and can't use it? Of course not.
Sharon Spencer
Instead of raising requirements for possible recipients of the Promise scholarship, the governor's office should review the facts.
John Warner
YOU might think that the one place in the world safe from the storms of politics and political ambitions would be the church. You might think that, of course, only if you had never involved yourself in the life of the Body of Christ.
Some secretive sects suffer tragedy
FRINGE Mormon polygamous wives, wearing antique clothing and hairdos from the 1800s, appear in news photos daily. Americans are puzzled by the mysterious Yearning For Zion Ranch, a commune of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, where Texas authorities seized 437 children.
Election presents an opportunity
LONG before Barack Obama won Iowa, I assured a colleague that the Illinois senator would win the Democratic nomination for president. My certainty wasn't based on anything scientific, just a hunch from the past.
Election Day, and justices for all
MENIS Ketchum's lead in a Supreme Court election poll this week was slight, but I was surprised to learn that he was leading at all.
Garrison believable, but still at fault
SO, IT turned out much as we all surmised. WVU did manufacture a degree for the governor's daughter, a high-ranking employee of a big donor.
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Readers' forum: May 19, 2008
- Hillary offers U.S. best health plan
- City cameras idea is a boondoggle
- Press ignores Mountain Party
- Dem prepared to vote for GOP
- Obama did not blow off state
- Faculty Senate failed with vote
- Bresch scandal tarnishes WVU
- Lawyer's ignorance of code disturbing
Garrison's words prove he is unfit
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Readers' voice: May 20, 2008
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