February 04, 2012
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Insecurities that drove billionaire to succeed also cost him that success
Raj Rajaratnam should be about the last person in the world that I have any sympathy for. I don’t know him. I don’t have a lot in common with billionaires who would cheat to save $3 mil...
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Good news for California, bad news for Brown
SACRAMENTO — Pausing in his struggle to solve, or to get others to solve, today’s iteration of California’s recurring fiscal crisis, Jerry Brown, the recurring governor, recently ...
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CAST OUT
Kentucky disenfranchises independent voters Kentucky can hardly complain about low voter turnout when the commonwealth’s closed primary system disenfranchises independent voters. Only...
May 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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REALITY

Math, physics bust clean energy myths
Makers of electric cars hope consumers will decide the benefits of their product will outweigh the one big shortcoming. Good luck with that. The shortcoming is a doozy: the limited range betw...
May 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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GIVEAWAY
PATS invited trouble with bonus payout Michael Hughes reinforced the commissioners’ decision. That was not his intent. Hughes, executive director of the Paducah Area Transit System,...
May 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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No reason to be proud of state’s poor school performance
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Gov. Steve Beshear told the Boone County Education Foundation: “We ought to be proud of what we’ve done. But we ought not to be satisfied with wher...
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SUBSIDIZE Protect investment in convention centers
They asked for more. They got less. It wasn’t cause and effect, but it is what happened. The Paducah-McCracken County Convention Center Corp. asked the fiscal court to double the county...
May 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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SHAM Congress dodges blame for energy policy
Congress, desperate to deflect consumer anger over high gas prices, again convened kangaroo court for Big Oil Thursday. The Senate Finance Committee conducted hearings where they grilled top ex...
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Boehner’s ideology falls short of reality
WASHINGTON — The news out of House Speaker John Boehner’s speech to the New York Economic Club was his demand for “cuts of trillions, not just billions” before the debt ceil...
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Letters to the editor
Moffett making plans, not empty promises  EDITOR: People, please know your candidate. Those who brag about having a lot of money will owe many special interest groups if they are voted i...
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LEMON

Romney’s reform disaster preview of Obamacare
Mitt Romney has embarked on a pre-campaign campaign to convince the American public that the Massachusetts version of health care reform is superior to the national health care legislation Presiden...
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Progressives’ notion of progress constricted
WASHINGTON — Outside the venue where Rep. Paul Ryan recently spoke in Madison, Wis., a university town never lacking protesters, one product of America’s education system shouted that R...
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Birther’ sideshow could have been sidetracked
EDITOR: Timing? Circus sideshow? Magician? And the Sun? Magician first: If Jesus came back, picked up President Obama and walked the Pacific Ocean all the way to Hawaii, the “birthers&#...
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GROWN-UPS
Raising debt ceiling shouldn’t be automatic Trillions, not billions.   House Speaker John Boehner told the New York Economic Club Monday that Congress will not raise the debt ce...
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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HARD LIFE

Tent City dwellers need and get helping hand
Sunday’s story in the Sun on Paducah’s “Tent City” brought mixed emotions. For local residents who just learned of Tent City, it is disquieting to know that people have been living in our midst ...
May 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Election letters deadline
Letters to the editor pertaining to candidates in the May 17 primary election must be received by The Paducah Sun editorial department no later than noon today. To be considered for publication, le...
May 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Placing mulch too close to trees can kill them
EDITOR: In the last few weeks I have watched KET programs, “The Victory Garden” and “This Old House,” each with segments on the danger of putting mulch around trees. Th...
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Celebration over a death is troubling
NEW YORK — It seems nearly heretical to say so, but the termination of Osama bin Laden feels oddly anti-climactic. Now what? And how to explain the sense that nothing has changed? The boog...
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CRUTCH
Ethanol industry can stand on its own
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Department of Homeland Security a vital link to combating terrorism
It’s been called the Rodney Dangerfield branch of government. But after “getting” Osama bin Laden, the Department of Homeland Security deserves a little respect.   Yes, i...
May 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Election letters deadline
Letters to the editor pertaining to candidates in the May 17 primary election must be received by The Paducah Sun editorial department no later than noon Tuesday, May 10. To be considered for publi...
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After turning 70 we're playing with house money
WASHINGTON — In 1960, after the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees in an electrifying seven-game World Series, the Yankees fired manager Casey Stengel, who had turned 70 in July...
May 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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UNNECESSARY
Releasing photos serves no good purpose The president made the wiser decision when he chose not to release photographs of Osama bin Laden’s body.   The decision was controversia...
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Paducah drivers should be courteous to out-of-towners
EDITOR: I recently needed to rent a vehicle until repairs were completed. Not a problem, right? Well, this vehicle just happened to have Florida plates on it. My point? I’ve li...
May 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bin Laden’s death won’t get Obama re-elected
Killing Osama bin Laden is a strange way to start a presidential campaign season, but that’s where we are. Now, bin Laden wasn’t taken out for partisan political reasons. Nor was his...
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NOT DUE
Fiscal court right to dig in on sick pay State agencies ought to communicate with one another better. The Kentucky Retirement Systems billed McCracken County for payments that two other state ...
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Bin Laden’s death a triumph in full bloom
WASHINGTON — The morning after we got Osama bin Laden, I woke up with a powerful urge to plant my garden. The plural pronoun “we” reflects a deliberate choice. As a journalist,...
May 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Successful people should not be demonized for achievements
EDITOR: The current role of the common man is to be the beast of burden that bears the yoke placed upon us by our politicians. The common man is the one who breaks his back to earn a living in o...
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Moms will always be a part of us
WASHINGTON — When I was growing up in New Jersey during the 1970s, my parents’ favorite comedian was Mel Brooks. Their favorite Brooks routine was the “2000 Year Old Man.” A...
May 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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AGONIZING
The results speak for themselves. After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasted a hole in the Birds Point levee, the Ohio River immediately began to drop. How could it not? The water rushed thr...
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Porn in libraries not a First Amendment issue
Of course you’ve heard some version of this tale before. Winston Churchill says to a woman at a party, “Madam, would you sleep with me for 5 million pounds?” The woman stammers...
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Recognize nurses’ contributions during week that honors them
Recognize nurses’ contributions during week that honors them EDITOR: National Nurses Week is May 6-12. The purpose of National Nurses Week is to raise public awareness of the value ...
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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IT'S A WAR
Enhanced interrogation distasteful but necessary  In a tape released just a year ago, Osama bin Laden accused President Obama of “following in the footsteps of his predecessor.”...
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Deficit debate a test of political seriousness
WASHINGTON — The deficit debate, now fully engaged, is also an evaluation of political seriousness. House Republican leaders have passed the test, supporting a politically risky budget tha...
May 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama fiddling like Nero while U.S. falls apart
EDITOR: It is said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, which seems callous, but it turns out that he was a piker when compared to this president. He manages to go on more vacations and golf out...
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IMAGINED
Anecdote is 'science' to climate change crowd It was inevitable that reporting on the nation’s recent natural disasters would reflexively turn to climate change. NBC News anchor Brian W...
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WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden’s death was announced by the president on May 1
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden’s death was announced by the president on May 1, a date that once had worldwide significance on the revolutionary calendar of communism, which was America&#...
May 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time to stop depending on finite energy resources EDITOR: Certain resources in this world are by definition “finite” such as: oil, natural gas and coal. Other resources by defi...
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The last time we saw such an outpouring of patriotic pride was immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Then it was the nation coming together in a collective expression of determination to bring th...
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The last time we saw such an outpouring of patriotic pride was immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Then it was the nation coming together in a collective expression of determination to bring th...
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 WASHINGTON — An administration that lacks a consistent foreign policy philosophy has nevertheless established a predictable foreign policy pattern
 WASHINGTON — An administration that lacks a consistent foreign policy philosophy has nevertheless established a predictable foreign policy pattern. A popular revolt takes place in count...
May 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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In other words
The following excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States were compiled by the Associated Press. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times on the U.S. prescription painkiller problem (A...
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Education bureaucrats blaming poverty for their failures
The famous Russian researcher Ivan Pavlov discovered “classical conditioning” — dogs would begin to salivate when he rang a bell that signaled the availability of food, even after...
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In other words
The following excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States were compiled by the Associated Press. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times on the U.S. prescription painkiller problem (A...
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Obama’s indecision in Mideast damaging America’s credibility
WASHINGTON — An administration that lacks a consistent foreign policy philosophy has nevertheless established a predictable foreign policy pattern. A popular revolt takes place in country X. Presi...
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Education bureaucrats blaming poverty for their failures
The famous Russian researcher Ivan Pavlov discovered “classical conditioning” — dogs would begin to salivate when he rang a bell that signaled the availability of food, even after he stopped givin...
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If anything should set off alarm bells about America’s schizophrenic energy policy, this ought to do it: President Obama is pressuring the Saudis to produce more oil. On Tuesday, the pres...
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WASHINGTON — Tim Storm
WASHINGTON — Tim Storm, an Illinois businessman until a few weeks ago, is now a Wisconsin businessman. Herewith a story about how states can reduce revenues by trying to increase them, and ab...
May 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Consumers, farmers benefit from the poultry industry
Consumers, farmers benefit from the poultry industry EDITOR: There are those who bemoan the life of a broiler. They are not allowed to roam on the good green earth. Neither do they have to...
May 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tax-happy states reaping the consequences
WASHINGTON — Tim Storm, an Illinois businessman until a few weeks ago, is now a Wisconsin businessman. Herewith a story about how states can reduce revenues by trying to increase them, and about t...
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Letter
Consumers, farmers benefit from the poultry industry EDITOR: There are those who bemoan the life of a broiler. They are not allowed to roam on the good green earth. Neither do they have to w...
May 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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AIMLESS
Obama’s energy policy counterproductive If anything should set off alarm bells about America’s schizophrenic energy policy, this ought to do it: President Obama is pressuring the Saudis to produ...
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“What the heck went wrong?” That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled. As Brad Plumer wri...
Apr 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Zoning Commission fell short of duty to protect homeowners EDITOR: Help! My home is in danger
Zoning Commission fell short of duty to protect homeowners EDITOR: Help! My home is in danger. If my house were on fire, I would call the fire department. If my home were flooded, I wou...
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Just hours after appearing on Oprah Tuesday, President Obama said, “What happened this morning was me trying to remind the press and trying to remind both parties that what we do in politics ...
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Failure to control pets should have consequences
EDITOR: On the afternoon of April 12 a friend and I went to Bob Noble Park to walk my two Yorkshire terriers. Just as we were beginning our intended walk, from out of nowhere, two large dogs app...
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Zoning Commission fell short of duty to protect homeowners
EDITOR: Help! My home is in danger. If my house were on fire, I would call the fire department. If my home were flooded, I would call the insurance company. If a thief broke into my home, I wo...
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SIDESHOW
Obama could have ended ‘birther’ circus long ago Just hours after appearing on Oprah Tuesday, President Obama said, “What happened this morning was me trying to remind the press and trying t...
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 WASHINGTON — There’s a reason presidents go gray
 WASHINGTON — There’s a reason presidents go gray. The job is difficult. If you don’t realize this, you’re not qualified to be president. Or you’re Donald Trump, ...
Apr 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Walter Williams fans are in for a treat — and people who are not Walter Williams fans are in for a shock — when they read his latest book
Walter Williams fans are in for a treat — and people who are not Walter Williams fans are in for a shock — when they read his latest book, “Race and Economics.” It is a d...
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A Reidland resident stopped the crew of sweat-soaked neighbors and friends building a sandbag wall behind his home on the banks of the Tennessee River this week. While the river’s edge was st...
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Williams’ book dubunks race-poverty myths
Walter Williams fans are in for a treat — and people who are not Walter Williams fans are in for a shock — when they read his latest book, “Race and Economics.” It is a demolition derby on paper...
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Trump ‘candidacy’is just a bombastic sideshow
WASHINGTON — There’s a reason presidents go gray. The job is difficult. If you don’t realize this, you’re not qualified to be president. Or you’re Donald Trump, in which case you are also not qual...
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SERVICE
Disaster brings out the best in people A Reidland resident stopped the crew of sweat-soaked neighbors and friends building a sandbag wall behind his home on the banks of the Tennessee River this...
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WASHINGTON — Memo to Democratic senators eager to vote themselves campaign subsidies in the name of combating corruption: You really should not cloak your self-serving crusade in a claim that could be called intellectual corruption
WASHINGTON — Memo to Democratic senators eager to vote themselves campaign subsidies in the name of combating corruption: You really should not cloak your self-serving crusade in a claim that...
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DEAD LAST Illinois leads nation in unfunded liabilities
This is a contest Illinois did not want to win. The Prairie State has the highest percentage of unfunded employee retirement obligations of any state. For every dollar the state has obligated i...
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WASHINGTON — Memo to Democratic senators eager to vote themselves campaign subsidies in the name of combating corruption: You really should not cloak your self-serving crusade in a claim that could be called intellectual corruption
WASHINGTON — Memo to Democratic senators eager to vote themselves campaign subsidies in the name of combating corruption: You really should not cloak your self-serving crusade in a claim that...
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Four Rivers Walk raised more than $80
Four Rivers Walk raised more than $80,000 for diabetes research EDITOR: The 2011 Four Rivers Walk to Cure Diabetes Committee thanks everyone in the community of Paducah, surrounding wester...
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Letters
Four Rivers Walk raised more than $80,000 for diabetes research EDITOR: The 2011 Four Rivers Walk to Cure Diabetes Committee thanks everyone in the community of Paducah, surrounding western ...
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Durbin seeking campaign money tree
WASHINGTON — Memo to Democratic senators eager to vote themselves campaign subsidies in the name of combating corruption: You really should not cloak your self-serving crusade in a claim that coul...
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DUE BILL
Illinois, Kentucky rank at bottom on pensions This is a contest Illinois did not want to win. The Prairie State has the highest percentage of unfunded employee retirement obligations of any st...
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If Obama wins again you can't blame The Donald
At this point, there’s at least one thing you can’t blame Donald Trump for: being Donald Trump. Like the scorpion in Aesop’s fables who must sting the frog because that’s...
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CAN DO AQS accustomed to overcoming obstacles
The American Quilter’s Society has overcome obstacles in the past, but nothing could have prepared it for this. Problems have dogged the annual AQS Quilt Show & Contest in recent years...
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Orchestra capped season with terrific performance
Orchestra capped season with terrific performance EDITOR: Triumphant! Tremendous! Exhilarating! Sensational! Breathtaking! Astounding! I can’t find enough words to describe the Paducah ...
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Orchestra capped seasonwith terrific performance
EDITOR: Triumphant! Tremendous! Exhilarating! Sensational! Breathtaking! Astounding! I can’t fi nd enough words to describe the Paducah Symphony Orchestra and Chorus’ fi nal season performance. Wh...
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African-Americans fightingfor Confederacy was senseless
EDITOR: Any African-American who volunteered to fi ght for the Confederacy during the Civil War was one or more of the following: 1. Mentally retarded. 2. Insane. 3. An idiot. Or just too...
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CAN DO
Overcoming obstacles nothing to to AQS The American Quilter’s Society has overcome obstacles in the past, but nothing could have prepared it for this. Problems have dogged the annual AQS Q...
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Union taking complaint over Boeing plant too far
NEW YORK — It is almost clockwork: As a new presidential cycle winds around, the early primary state of South Carolina provides a defining issue for Americans and candidates to chew over. ...
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Human health considerations should guide coal terminal vote
EDITOR: For decades local governments have been swayed by commercial interests to leave environmental protection to state and federal agents. Kentucky statutes and regulations give the McCracken...
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Panel’s Boeing decision political landmine for Dems
NEW YORK — It is almost clockwork: As a new presidential cycle winds around, the early primary state of South Carolina provides a defining issue for Americans and candidates to chew over. Whethe...
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Letters
Human health considerations should guide coal terminal vote EDITOR: For decades local governments have been swayed by commercial interests to leave environmental protection to state and fede...
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THUGGERY
Politicized NLRB action assaults American jobs Now the federal government wants to tell American companies where they can do business. And where they can’t. The National Labor Relations Board ...
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EPA’s ‘strangulation by regulation’ harming coal economy
Coal produces 94 percent of the Bluegrass State’s electricity, and it’s providing good jobs to more than 18,000 miners. That’s a lot of mortgage and tuition payments, not to speak of a ton of vo...
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Disappointment is part of life
It’s that time of year again, the time of year when high school seniors who have done everything right their whole lives discover that it wasn’t good enough to get them into the colleges they drea...
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Letters
Politician may find Texas not as superior as he thinks EDITOR: Roger Keats, who said he lived in the “most corrupt city in the U.S.” and who famously referred to a recent political opponent ...
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DUSTUP
Experience doesn’t square with coal dust threat claim Metropolis Mayor Billy McDaniel does not want to see a coal transfer terminal built across the Ohio River in Kentucky. He fears airborne coa...
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Kansas City schools show money no cure-all
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Covington hesitated before becoming this city’s 26th school superintendent in 40 years. A blunt-talking African-American from Alabama, he attended the Broad Superintendents...
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Republican-controlled House can halt runaway spending
EDITOR: It has been said that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to relive them. We are now reliving one of the most decisive lessons which history has to offer. After W...
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Time to acquaint yourself with the intent of Sharia law
EDITOR: Islamic law (Sharia law) holds any religion other than Islamic law heretical. I would strongly suggest to you that you make it your business to acquaint yourself with Sharia law and its ...
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GREED
Big government outdoes big business That story you read about General Electric getting a $3.2 billion tax refund? Uh, never mind. The Associated Press got hoodwinked. After receiving a f...
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OVERDONE
Citing farmers for dust case of EPA overreach In its ongoing mission to save us from ourselves, the Environmental Protection Agency is targeting another form of “coarse particulate matter” that ...
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Educators’ hands tied when it comes to delivering just punishment to bullies
There is a lot of talk from many people about bullying in school. The problem is that it is all talk. There is no sign that anybody is going to do anything that is likely to reduce bullying. Whe...
Apr 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. must heed S&P’s financial warning
WASHINGTON — Thank you, Standard & Poor’s. The rating agency’s warning about the possibility it may downgrade the credit rating of the United States is a welcome wake-up call. Another one....
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Romney may prove to be GOP’s best bet
I must admit that it took me at least a minute to figure out the Drudge Report headline: “Paw In.” Had there been some gruesome animal attack somewhere,  a train accident in Eastern Europe or...
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Federal education footprint needs paring
WASHINGTON — During 25 years in the Marine Corps, including flying helicopters in Vietnam, Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican, developed the skill of maintaining small-unit cohesion. He will ...
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Credit ratings outlook reflects political gridlock The president’s campaign speech disguised as a deficit reduction plan last week may not have been behind Standard and Poor’s decision to lower ...
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If people have jobs, they can help bring deficit down
EDITOR: Budget battle? Where were these congressmen/women the last 30 years? I heard one say, “We can’t bury our heads in the sand.” They’ve had their heads somewhere. As long as these governm...
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A BIT LATE
Sexism a quaint nuisance for Britain’s monarchy Those trend-setting Brits. London is contemplating changing the line of royal succession so that the eldest offspring of the reigning m...
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Coal-to-liquid fuel plant will wreak havoc on neighborhood
EDITOR: Once again the citizens of McCracken County are about to have something in which they don’t believe crammed down their throats, e.g., the new high school. Some people are trying to tel...
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GOP dark horse may yet emerge in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa — This state, about 10 months from its caucuses, is a flat, fertile, friendly political vacuum. The Republican candidates who finished first and second the last time around — Mi...
Apr 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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