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THEIR VIEW: New lower cost, consensus course needed for health care reform

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CHARLESTON — The recent election of a Republican Senator in Massachusetts to fill the seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy is a major change and one that will have a direct influence on the deliberations related to national health care reform.
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THEIR VIEW: There are no shortcuts to meaningful judicial reform

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CHARLESTON — While West Virginia’s leaders have spent a lot of time talking about reforming our state courts, we seem to keep spinning our wheels in the mud. Case in point is our most recent judicial reform discussion.
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THEIR VIEW: Lawsuit abuse obstructs job creation

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WASHINGTON — Leave it to the plaintiffs’ trial lawyers to add insult to injury. While American businesses and families spent 2009 coping with the effects of a severe recession, the plaintiffs’ bar was hard at work bringing a whole new round of outrageous lawsuits on behalf of clients hoping to get rich quick by winning the litigation lottery.
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THEIR VIEW: A script even Hollywood couldn’t write

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CHARLESTON — In the movies, when the jury hands down an unjust verdict, the scrappy underdog lawyer — isn’t it always either Henry Fonda or Al Pacino? — exclaims with steely resolve: “We’re gonna take it all the way to the Supreme Court!”
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THEIR VIEW: Could Mollohan be next to drop out?

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CHARLESTON — Is Congressman Alan Mollohan planning to run for re-election?
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Arguments, Their View