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Editorials

This is why
Operation of Fayette schools
won’t return to local control
until there is some consensus

February 9, 2012
MSU
Mountain State University is at a critical crossroads and southern West Virginians need to step up and show their support for the school and its hundreds of students and employees.

February 8, 2012
MSU
Community needs to show its support for our university

February 8, 2012
If you don’t think so, you’d better think again
EPA regulations turning the screw on coal industry

February 7, 2012
Airport projects crucial
Tom Cochran and others at the Raleigh County Memorial Airport can breathe a little easier, or at least take a deep breath and exhale, after word came from Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s office last week that a deal has been struck between the two chambers in Congress to authorize long-term funding, into 2015, for the Federal Aviation Administration.

February 5, 2012
Thumbs — Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012
February 4, 2012
It’s not a choice
Whether a bill to eliminate tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike when the current bonds expire some eight years from now is passed by the Legislature and signed into law or not, one thing is absolutely certain — the state Transportation Department has the responsibility to maintain that 88-mile stretch of Interstate highway.

February 3, 2012
On the shelf
A Senate bill (SB168) offered by 13 of the upper chamber’s members that would have given counties the option to boost the pay of county commissioners, sheriffs, county and circuit clerks, assessors and prosecuting attorneys by at least $10,000 each has apparently been shelved and will do nothing but draw dust this legislative session.

February 2, 2012
The time is now
Drug abuse.

February 1, 2012
Rarified air
Bolen takes his place among coaching elite

January 31, 2012
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