May 25, 2013
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GREED BILL Time for state to undo bipartisan money grab
Decades of enriching the benefits of state employees beyond the state’s ability to pay for it has left the unfunded liability in Kentucky’s public employee pension funds among the worst in the nati...
Jun 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Naughty novels aside, women not interested in return to pre-feminism
WASHINGTON — There are several highbrow ways one could write about the publishing phenomenon of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the soft-core, S&M trilogy that has found its way onto the Kindles of million...
Jun 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CORRECTION: The Paducah Planning Commission did not prepare the Renaissance Area Master Plan
CORRECTION: The Paducah Planning Commission did not prepare the Renaissance Area Master Plan, as suggested in a recent editorial opposing a proposed parking garage on the riverfront. The Paducah...
Jun 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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DAMAGE Federal Reserve report reflects political failures
If you think you’re worse off now than you were five years ago, it’s not your imagination. The Federal Reserve just released its triennial Survey of Consumer Finances, and the numbers reveal tha...
Jun 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Beltway students become lab subjects
WASHINGTON — Montgomery County, Md., on the District of Columbia’s northern border, is a dormitory for the nation’s government, where federal workers’ sleep is disturbed only by dreams of new ways ...
Jun 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Surrogate causing president headaches
Watching Bill Clinton act as Barack Obama’s “No. 1 surrogate,” in the words of National Public Radio, is as exquisitely painful as watching a runaway monkey with a paintball gun at a museum. Mos...
Jun 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Visit to old country reminder of why grandparents risked so much to leave
I have never seen so many mirrors in a hotel room before. Even the nightstands are mirrored. The switches for the lights aren’t switches but lighted panels. There is not an iron to be found. I am a...
Jun 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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DEADBEAT Overextended Illinois dodging bill collectors
Illinois has an $8.5 billion backlog of overdue bills to be paid. And that’s an improvement. It was $1.3 billion higher before lawmakers trimmed the budget. Some vendors who are still waiting fo...
Jun 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dominoes starting to fall on Obama
WASHINGTON — For the past year, we’ve been relentlessly reminded that Republicans didn’t especially love their front-running presidential candidate. Mitt Romney wasn’t conservative enough, they ...
Jun 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Plaza fountain color giving downtowners the blues
EDITOR: I’ve got a serious case of the blues. No, my baby didn’t leave me and my dog didn’t die. It’s worse than all that. Working downtown gives me a front-row seat to one of the most heinou...
Jun 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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