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No-job stress is bad for heart
A long job hunt can be bad for your heart. The Great Recession has created millions of new job hunters and what’s essentially a buyer’s market for employers. It’s not uncommon to...
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‘Snake Lady’ captured hearts, personified free spirit
Almost five years ago, the story of a little lady who did battle with a poisonous snake captured the hearts of readers here in Wise County and far beyond. Readers e-mailed and faxed their friends ...
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Bipartisanship requires work and will
by LEE HAMILTON • Director, Centeron Congress at Indiana University
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After seven hours together at their recent health-care forum, President Obama, congressional Democrats and congressional Republicans emerged no closer to an agreement than when they started. It was...
Hard work left as session enters final week
by SEN. PHILLIP PUCKETT
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We are now entering the final week of the 2010 General Assembly session. We are scheduled to adjourn on Saturday, March 13. This week the House of Delegates and Senate will finish acting on all leg...
Budget talks tough in final weeks of session
by SEN. PHILLIP PUCKETT
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We have now entered the final two weeks of the 2010 General Assembly session. We are scheduled to adjourn on Saturday, March 13. We will have been here a total of 60 days in what is referred to as ...
Writer says not to fear Obama
by KATHRYN THOMAS - Springfield
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To the editor: I'm a city girl and I don't own a gun so maybe I have no credibility with the folks in Wise County but I think we probably have more in common than is immediately apparent. The ar...
Dotson is promoted
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First Bank & Trust Co. has promoted Cory Dotson to vice president. Dotson has worked for the company for five years. He will manage branch offices in Wise and Norton. Dotson earned a bachelor's d...
We should learn to pay ourselves
by MARTHA RANDOLPH CARR - Author
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There is a constant to the U.S. economy and that is, it's always changing. Some years are a boom and everyone who wants a job has one and some years are a bust, like now, and we have to live off of...
Health debate unfolds in code
by WILL DURST - Political Comedian
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You've seen "ER" and I've seen "ER" and I think we can both agree that if bipartisan health care reform were a patient, Doctor Obama would be dejectedly dropping the paddles, ripping off his mask a...