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West Virginia Joe Manchin says he's committed to returning the state's parkway authority to what he calls "its core and original mission" of running the state Turnpike.

In the past year there has been mounting criticism of financial mess made by the authority's decade and a half long involvement in tourism and economic development - political euphemisms for putting money into marginal business projects most of which turn out to be lossmakers.
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