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Put your mouth where your money is

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s requested cuts for next budget year would reduce funding for the state’s colleges and universities by almost $35 million, according to the Higher Education Policy Commission. “I have said it time and time again: a good education today means a better job tomorrow.”    “I was the first person in my family to receive a college…

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Working on the redesign of a college website

November 2011 – The desire for a site redesign is first mentioned, you knowingly sigh a deep sigh to yourself. February 2012 – An administrative committee is formed to lay out the main categorizations and links for the new site.  You shake your head at the first inkling that there are to be changes to cutesy, vague category names like…

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What’s the Argument Against Reasonable Gun Control?

President Obama today proposed a series of measures aimed at reducing gun violence in the US.  What he proposed was largely expected – a push to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, along with expanded background checks and restrictions on ammunition capacity. As expected, as with any policy, proposal, idea, or dream that Obama has, it was…

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Mobile Traffic to the Marshall Website for 2012

This morning I ran a report for a coworker on the mobile device traffic to the Marshall website over the past year (through yesterday).  The statistics break down like this: 72.92% iOS 22.38% Android 1.02% Blackberry 0.48% Windows Mobile A couple of points of information to use when interpreting the data:  iOS includes all iPhone, iPad and iPod traffic.  While…

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Pets Die, You Don’t Have to Keep Them

So this thing that you see on the left is what most people would call a “parrot”.  I would tell you it’s a blue and yellow McCaw, a bird that’s native to Mexico, and Central and South America.  You might assume from me knowing these facts that I like birds. Actually, I hate birds. I know this because my mother…

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