We do not want to be in a position that is seen as unfriendly to economic development.

Fortunately it was a hoax and there was no damage other than inconvenience done, but we need to be better prepared.

We need to examine where the burdens will fall under the governor's proposal. It's clear that people who have annual incomes of $200,000 or more are clear winners.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.