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Blankenship’s opportunity cost

October 27, 2006 3:45 AM
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So imagine you’re a fifty-something self-made multi-millionaire businessman with enough in the kitty to live a life of luxury and never work another day the rest of your life.
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Letter to the Editor: Time to upgrade the coal industry

October 26, 2006 3:30 PM

Dear Editor: Don Blankenship wrote that “It’s Time to Upgrade our Government.” West Virginia, it’s time to upgrade the coal industry. As an engineer with over 20 years experience working in the manufacturing industry, I can say that I have … Read More »

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It’s time to upgrade our government

October 25, 2006 10:55 PM
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Blankenship

Some of you remember our typing classes back in the 1960s and 1970s. We were asked to repeatedly type, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.”
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Tasteless trolling tale

October 20, 2006 12:18 PM
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We’re all for free speech here at The Record. But one has to feel for Valley Center Nursing Home in South Charleston, forced to press a defamation charge in Kanawha County Circuit Court last week. Read More »

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Not your father’s Chamber of Commerce

October 19, 2006 9:11 AM
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Jones

CHARLESTON — John F. Kennedy once said, “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth — persistent, persuasive, unrealistic.”
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Yearning for climate change

October 13, 2006 8:27 AM
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Wonder why our business climate is generally in such low regard? Read More »

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States key to development of national energy policy

October 12, 2006 11:34 AM
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CHARLESTON — Recently, I have had the opportunity to meet with many key coal industry leaders and decision makers throughout both West Virginia and our nation.
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Courts aren’t a cash register

October 6, 2006 4:56 AM
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Lawsuits should be used to resolve disputes, not invent them. Read More »

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A dirty double standard

October 5, 2006 1:00 PM
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CHARLESTON — Remember “Pork Chop” Booth, the contractor awarded millions of taxpayer dollars for equipment maintenance jobs? A high-ranking state schools’ official steered the business to his buddy and was subsequently slapped down by a federal court for doing so.
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State Chamber policies will improve business climate

October 3, 2006 7:30 AM
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Roberts

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce has adopted a package of policy recommendations that, if enacted or implemented, would greatly advance West Virginia’s capability to generate business investment and employment growth.
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