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THEIR VIEW: McGraw has a history of beating the odds

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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw is like a cat on Election Day. This Democrat always seems to land on his feet, even when his critics and opponents believe he’s done for.
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THEIR VIEW: Lawmakers and conflicts of interest.

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MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia Ethics Commission decided last week that House Speaker Rick Thompson would have an “inescapable conflict” if he had taken a position as legal counsel for the West Virginia Education Association teacher’s union.
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THEIR VIEW: Marcellus Shale hearing could mean progress

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CHARLESTON — Most politicians love to hear themselves talk. But today in Fairmont, it appears there will be some political dialogue which could lead to actual progress for the state economy.
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THEIR VIEW: How the EPA aims to kill coal

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WASHINGTON — A case can be made, upon reviewing the full sweep of President Barack Obama’s first term, that the Administration’s top priority has not been health care, the Iranian nuclear program or economic recovery. It has been, instead, the U.S. coal industry’s ruination. Read More »

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THEIR VIEW: It’s time for a ‘regulatory cocktail’ against unethical debt collectors

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Many U.S. attorneys general are working with each other and with the federal government to employ a “drug cocktail” strategy to control and eventually eradicate the scourge that is unethical debt collectors, because just one strategy alone seems not to be enough.
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