May 19, 2013
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Courts remain best way to curb abuses in long-term care facilities
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is in response to Ruby Joe Cummins Lubarsky’s commentary in The Paducah Sun on Feb. 27. Ms. Lubarsky, president of the Kentucky Association of Healthcare Facilities,...
Mar 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Facts leave coal-bashers between ‘black rock,’ hard place
In “Catch-22,” author Joseph Heller reports that “Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.” ...
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Santorum’s rhetoric aside, college offers leg up on future success
WASHINGTON — Politicians say the darnedest things, especially when their lips are moving. Perhaps it is on account of such a long primary season, but the more they talk, the tastier their feet. ...
Mar 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Winning Congress should be GOP goal
“The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. The next and most urgent counsel is to take stock of reality.”  — William F. Buckley Sept. 11, 1964 WASHINGTON — On that evening 48 years ...
Mar 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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SAUSAGE Lawmakers merit mixed reviews on drug bills
A pair of bills that cleared a Kentucky House committee this week illustrates the right way and the wrong way to crack down on drug abuse probems. The House Judiciary Committee unanimously appro...
Mar 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mr. Right eludes GOP’s final four
“If we could just take a little bit from each of them.” I’ve lost track of how many people I have heard say some version of this in the last couple of months. The “each of them” refers to the fi...
Mar 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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BUNKERED Child protection records need to see light of day
Sometimes public agencies withhold information from the public to protect the innocent. And sometimes to protect the guilty. It’s a little of both with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family...
Mar 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Petty issues bogging down GOP race
The only good news for the Republicans coming out of the seemingly endless presidential candidate “debates” is that some Republican leaders are now belatedly thinking about how they can avoid a rep...
Mar 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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GREENING AL Gore would make worthy ‘Atlas Shrugged’ character
Al Gore wants to overhaul capitalism. The former vice president, who has of late channeled his energies into positioning himself to rise from the 1 percent class to a far more exclusive income b...
Mar 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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FLOP Washington’s ‘green fleet’ effort crashes into reality
The federal government’s gasoline consumption hit a 25-year high in 2010, the latest year for which figures have been compiled. It posted a 3.3 percent increase over the year before. Meanwhile, ...
Mar 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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