Editorials
The Berlin Wall and me: Reflections on the fall 
  Editor’s note: As part of its Freedom Readers lecture series, Center for Vision & Values’ Executive Director and Ronald Reagan biographer, Dr. Paul Kengor, interviewed Thomas F. O’Boyle on t...
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Diabetes Awareness
Last month was American Diabetes Month. Many of us know someone with diabetes, or suffer from it ourselves. More than 24 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes, and more than 57 milli...
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When the walls came down
Many members of the younger generations may have wondered what all the fuss was about Nov. 9, when the media gave much attention to a celebration in Berlin, Germany, marking the 20th anniversary o...
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Hard to cope with unhappy people; Close knit neighborhood comes apart at seams
Dear Dr. Brothers: I am a single gal in my 30s. I’ve had my ups and downs in life, just like everyone, but I always have tried to look on the bright side of things. There is nothing gained by mopi...
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Sideroads: Mountain music in Appalachia
Many of us who live in Appalachia have lived here all our lives. So have our parents. So have our grandparents and our great-grandparents. What we learned from them became a part of who we are and...
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First impressions are lasting impressions
I just kept laughing and laughing. I know I sounded like a hen cackling over her eggs. Everything my son said was hysterically funny so I hee-d and haw-ed until my sides hurt. People at the othe...
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You, too, should care about what’s happening to journalism
by LEE H. HAMILTON
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A central aspect of the art of politics in Washington is getting information to the American people. Determining what the White House, Congress and the people will focus on — and, just as important...
My friend Ted
by Robert C. Byrd
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Byrd’s Eye View
Focus on the matter at hand
by Ed Lockard
Hardy Church of Christ
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It seems more and more as I continue in my ministry that people focus more on trivial things than the matter at hand. I certainly will be the first one to say that the building needs to be clean a...
August is ‘Girls’ Night Out’ Month
by First Lady Gayle C. Manchin
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August is a month of reining in our last summer activities, thinking of our new beginnings -- whether it be the opening of school, band and athletic practices, or fundraisers as fall quickly approa...
Broadband is opening doors for southern W.Va.
by Nick Rahall
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Today, across the state and around the world broadband is changing the way we live our lives, allowing us to stay close with friends and family near and far and have access to limitless information...
Fix health care by learning from other countries
by LARRY STRUCK
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  Picture yourself with a serious health problem and no medical care. This is not difficult to imagine for anyone without health insurance or with substandard coverage. Fortunately, my partner De...
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