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Leaps and bounds
Every four years we can be sure of two things: a president will be elected, and an extra day will be added to February. It’s called Leap Year, and everybody knows it and accepts it, even if they do...
Feb 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama needs in-between options for Iran
WASHINGTON — Anyone who has worked at the White House is keenly aware of two gaps. The first is the gap between the obsessions of the media and the challenges of the country. So Rick Santorum ex...
Feb 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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CHARADE Casino justifications keep shapeshifting
The Kentucky Senate was right to reject casino gambling, and senators rejected it for all the right reasons. To begin with, the bill that came out of the State and Local Government Committee was...
Feb 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Incivility hardly a new occurrence
WASHINGTON — Can civility be saved? This has become the question du jour among scholars, journalists and others who fret about such things at dozens of programs popping up around the country. As...
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky needs sound, flexible charter school law
We fight a lot over public schools. And I’m not talking about food fights in the lunch room, either.  In Scott County, there’s been a contentious dispute recently about whether to build another...
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Medical review panels can stop frivolous long-term care lawsuits
Our seniors deserve our greatest respect and the utmost attention to their care. Every day, Kentucky’s long-term care homes strive to treat residents with dignity while caring for their health need...
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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REMOTE Locale, more than money, undermines soccer project
Paducah Mayor Bill Paxton says the future of a proposed Paducah soccer/sports complex depends on supporters of the project raising funds relatively soon. “The soccer community has got to step up...
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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New novel brings Watergate to life
WASHINGTON — In 1960, when Thomas Mallon was in the fourth grade, he wore his Nixon-Lodge button to school and warned classmates that John Kennedy was too inexperienced to be president. Mallon was ...
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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ENOUGH Congress should put end to misuse of wetlands rules
Michael and Chantell Sackett bought a half-acre lot in a northern Idaho subdivision zoned residential with a sewer hook-up in place. They applied for and received permits to build a home on the lot...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOP zealots are only helping Obama
The fight between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum doesn’t just raise questions about each man’s strengths and weaknesses. It also raises, as fundamentally as any battle in recent decades, the questio...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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