Road work will be worth the wait in West Virginia
Greg Jordan reflects on southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia road projects. He recalls his father Alan Jordan a longtime WVDOH design engineer and explains why pothole repairs, widening, and resurfacing cost time and money. The piece urges patience during summer delays and stresses safety near crews.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Alan Jordan
West Virginia Department of Highways
Karen
Europe
Medway
Dad
Wait on the LORD guiding courage and strength
A fragmentary note cites faith as a source of courage with a line about awaiting the LORD and receiving heart strength. Names appear in garbled form, including Darryl Hudson and Samantha Perry, but the readable text centers on religious exhortation and steadfastness. The fragment resembles a devotional clipping with biblical quotation.
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Perth
West Virginia Slices Food Tax By 1 Percent On 2012 Start
Gov Earl Ray Tomblin signed House Bill 2971 cutting the food tax from 3 to 2 percent, returning 26 million to residents but the cut takes effect January 1, 2012. The move followed a heated session with candidates for governor, including Tomblin and Jeffrey Kessler, and could aid border towns like Bluefield amid grocery price pressures.
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West Virginia
Earl Ray Tomblin
Tomblin
Senate
Jeffrey Kessler
Bluefield
Commonwealth of Virginia
Kessler
D-Marshall
Rockefeller
Gaston Caperton
Charleston
Letters: AEP profits and rate relief questioned by reader
A condo owner confronts Appalachian Power Company over a claimed 1.3 billion yearly profit and rising costs. The writer urges competition or elected PSC reform to lower bills, arguing profits should offset consumer hardship and criticizing corporate self-interest.
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Appalachian Power Company
Albert Einstein
AEP
Haves
Have-Not Land
West Virginia
Public Service Commission
Po” Tolks
Guidelines and uncertainty in Libya campaign objective debate
Martin Schram analyzes U S policy ambiguities in Libya with quotes from Scowcroft Brzezinski Lugar and others. The piece questions whether the no fly zone aims to topple Gadhafi or merely curb violence and warns of mission creep and unclear aims amid NATO UN action.
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Libya
Gadhafi
U.S
Adm
Mike Mullen
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Carter Ham
United States
Sen
Richard Lugar
Indiana
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
Lugar
PBS NewsHour
Brent Scowcroft
Gerald Ford
George H.W. Bush
Zimbabwe
Yemen
Bahrain
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Jimmy Carter
Brzezinski
Arab League
Scowcroft
Gaddafi
Obama
NATO
U.N. Security Council
Saddam Hussein
Iraq
Bush
America
William Cohen
Bill Clinton
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Cluefield Baily Telegraph
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Anis Money
Toles Cah
APCO
Eonu Nl Ae
Cessce
Martin Schram
Scripps Howard News Service
Martin Schra
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