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	<title>Notes From The Information Diaspora</title>
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	<description>Who are we now?</description>
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		<title>Preface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are not who we once were. We no longer fight wars, find love, know God, or talk to one another in the way we had for hundreds of years.]]></description>
		<link>http://ryrivard.com/notes/article/2009/11/preface/</link>
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		<title>GOP preparing to challenge Mollohan for seat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Alan Mollohan, who had no opposition from the GOP in eight of his 14 election bids, could have more than a half dozen Republicans vying to unseat him in 2010.]]></description>
		<link>http://ryrivard.com/portfolio/2009/11/gop-tochallenge-mollohan/</link>
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		<title>Many unsure unions can take over PEIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article appeared in print on Nov. 11, 2009, on page A1 of the Charleston Daily Mail.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. &#8212; A plan by five of West Virginia&#8217;s most powerful unions to take over the state Public Employees Insurance Agency faces political and practical obstacles.
While there is likely to be opposition from state lawmakers to giving unions control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryrivard.com/portfolio/dm/2009/11/many-unsure-unions-can-take-over-peia/</link>
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		<title>Debate over changed grades heats up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dean of Marshall University's largest college changed two grades given to West Virginia Treasurer John Perdue's daughter, and the classroom professor is asking for an investigation by the university's Faculty Senate.]]></description>
		<link>http://ryrivard.com/portfolio/2009/09/marshall-university-grade-debat/</link>
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		<title>Bill puts coal, utilities at odds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The companies that mine coal and the companies that burn it are taking opposite approaches to a plan intended to prevent global climate change.]]></description>
		<link>http://ryrivard.com/portfolio/2009/09/power-coal-at-odds/</link>
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		<title>Man put to rest in his &#8216;67 Chevy truck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CLAY COUNTY, W.Va. -- In a burial plot that is 19 feet long and nine feet wide,Albert Dancy Jr. lies in a casket in a vault in his 1967 Chevy pickup.]]></description>
		<link>http://ryrivard.com/portfolio/2009/03/rest-in-67-chevy/</link>
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