"The automobile killed our downtown," claims Jim Snyder, city editor of the Parkersburg News.

“机动车破坏了我们的商业区，”杰姆•斯奈德，《帕克斯堡新闻》主编断言说。

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Several homes in a row were destroyed by a May 2008 tornado in Parkersburg, Iowa.

2008年5月，爱荷华州帕克斯堡的龙卷风摧毁了一排几户人家。

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Officials say a total of 350 homes were destroyed, more than 200 just in Parkersburg.

官方报道说已有350户人家在此次龙卷风中被破坏，其中超过200的是在帕克斯堡。

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And although unemployment is closer to the national average in the coal and steel areas around Wheeling and Parkersburg, in Morgantown the rate is 6.3%, one of the lowest in America.

ECONOMIST: A place where times don��t change, nor the taste for pork

It has been airing ads in small towns in safe Republican states, such as Dothan, Alabama and Parkersburg, West Virginia, merely to reach little pockets of voters in neighbouring swing states.

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There is lots of government work and most of the operations of the federal Bureau of Public Debt, which does the actual borrowing of the money requested by Washington, are done in Parkersburg.

ECONOMIST: A place where times don��t change, nor the taste for pork