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Congratulations Logan, Tug Valley and good job, Gilbert!
Congratulations to the Logan Wildcats and the Tug Valley Panthers for getting big, first-round wins in the state boys basketball tournament! And we’re so proud of the mighty Gilbert Lions for mak...
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Obama plan only slows premiums rise
WASHINGTON (AP) — Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print. Premiums are likely to keep going up even i...
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Fireworks Legislation
Just 18 states allow ‘‘energetic’’ fireworks of the type the state Senate has voted to legalize in West Virginia. They include rockets, Roman candles and firecrackers of the type now illegal in ou...
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Is gov’t more open with Obama?
EDITOR’S NOTE — An occasional look at promises by government officials and how well they are kept. WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agencies haven’t lived up to President Barack Obama’s promise of a ...
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Upcoming health care bill vote
When Senate Democrats filibustered against just about every one of President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees, both to the Supreme Court and to U.S. appeals courts, they howled the 60-vote proce...
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Sissonville fans were classless in their cheers
What’s wrong with kids — and their parents - these days? Is there no decency among the youth of today? Are curse words and dirty talk just slang now? Since when did parents start lett...
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EDITORIALS
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Politicians
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Editor, How many more issues of the Banner will we have to look at the mugs of Manchin, Tomblin and Kirkendoll praising the new center on 119 that none had a thing to do with. With all their free...
HB 4292
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Editor, Life in West Virginia continues to take it toll on senior citizens. What are our "lawmakers" doing to help the downtrodden? It seems that the leadership of the state House has used a pro...
Fleecing American taxpayers
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Editor, It seems like everybody is on the band wagon trying to figure out why so many Americans have lost their jobs and why the economy is so bad. Members of congress are always willing to ge...
Boycotting
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Editor, This newspaper’s recent editorial calling for a boycott of a concert featuring Kathy Mattea, Emmylou Harris, Patti Griffin, Dave Matthews, Buddy Miller and others is yet another example o...
Reply to McCoy
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Editor, I normally don’t respond to “Letters to the Editor” because I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion. When I read a letter that gives out miscommunications about the job I do a...
Elimination of the RESAs
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Editor, I would like to express my opinion of the eight RESAs (Regional Educational Service Agencies) in West Virginia. I see them as a bureaucratic waste of taxpayer’s money. I have seen admi...
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Get out and support your teams!
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Three local teams are in the state tournament this week, including Logan, Tug Valley and Gilbert. We hope everyone will get out and support their local teams. Make the drive to Charleston and roo...
The road of life
by Dr. Charles M. Wood II, Guest Columnist
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Have you ever had an argument with yourself? This has happened to me several times recently. In one of those arguments, I was thinking about my relationship with God. If my "faith walk" was a jour...
Obama’s deeds must match his rhetoric
by (Distributed) The Associated Press
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The hopes invested in Barack Obama at his inauguration were as overblown as the disenchantment now surrounded his first anniversary in the White House. He has failed, inevitably, to live up to the...
Original art exhibit is amazing
by Michael Browning, Managing Editor
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Not many people understand how a comic book is made. First a script is written, then a penciler draws the sequential art, an inker goes over the pencils to enhance the art, a letterer adds the wor...
Congratulations Panthers and good job Tigers
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Congratulations to the Tug Valley Panthers for making it back to the Class AA state basketball tournament! The Panthers have played great all season long and have the talent to bring home the st...
Good job, Lions and Hillbillies
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Congratulations to the Gilbert Lions for making it back to the Class A state basketball tournament! The Lions surprised everyone by beating St. Joseph’s Central last night to earn their fourth ber...
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