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Elimination of turnpike tolls just a salesman's pitch
After reading a turnpike article in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph April 6 quoting Delegate Marty Gearheart, R-Mercer, as saying “I’m a salesman and I’ve been told I have a little time. I plan to use that time,” many things became clear to me.

April 14, 2013
America needs foreign policy plan for nation, military
April 13, 2013
Mountain folk have left a lasting impression on me
Nearly 30 ago, I called a National Geographic photographer who resided near Charlottesville, Va., and asked him to come to the Mountain State and record the images of those I once referred to as “the last of the mountain people.”

April 12, 2013
MSHA renews commitment to promote safe mines
April 7, 2013
The church and society waging influence on each other
April 6, 2013
Children once had to work to help feed their families
By the time most high school students turn 16 years of age, they’re already looking for a part-time job.
They mainly want to work so they can afford an automobile. When they get one, they have to keep on working to pay for it and keep it on the road.
As a result, the job takes a priority over everything else — school, sports, leisure, even sleep.
Working teens are nothing new on the American landscape. But today’s youth work because they choose to do it.
It wasn’t always like that, though.

April 5, 2013
Remembering when baseball was more than a sport
Like millions of Americans, I was caught up in the glory days of baseball in the 1950s.
I was exhilarated by the Reds and Yankees and Dodgers victories, and pained by each and every loss.

March 29, 2013
Football team isn’t only problem in Steubenville case
The verdict is in, and two teenage boys are serving time in the national saga known as the Steubenville rape case.

March 23, 2013
Clichés represent distilled wisdom from decades of use
A cliché has a bad name as an overworked and therefore banal expression. Spoken or written by someone who is not thinking much about what he is saying or writing, it usually has a negative connotation.

March 22, 2013
Note to budget battlers: Don’t underestimate Burwell
President Obama’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget and shepherd the nation away from the fiscal cliff is an admission that he failed during his first four years of office.

March 16, 2013
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