May 19, 2013
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Disgust at Washington politics turning into voter apathy at local level
As I write this, it is Election Day in the nation’s second largest city. Ho hum. Worry not. It’s not as if it were the Oscars or the Golden Globes, or even the Writers Guild Award (the punch lin...
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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SENSIBLE Election year switch would better serve voters
Republicans in the General Assembly are ready to give Gov. Steve Beshear and five other Democrats in constitutional office an extra year on their terms without an election. Democrats are saying “no...
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FAIR? Wealthy pay record taxes, but Dems lust for more
The wealthy have never paid a higher portion of their income in federal taxes than they’re paying now — at least not since the Congressional Budget Office started tracking the data in 1979. You ...
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Voting rights law overstays usefulness
I can only hope that the scourge of racism is finally purged from Stewartstown and Pinkham’s Grant. These are two of 10 New Hampshire towns covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, wh...
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Liberals in denial over nation’s debt
WASHINGTON — One revealing stress test of a political viewpoint is the way it deals with facts that are large, consequential and ideologically inconvenient. For conservatives, the challenge is c...
Mar 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama’s second term giving first lady opportunity to spread her wings
WASHINGTON — If second-term presidents feel liberated by re-election to pursue bolder agendas, first ladies often become more comfortable to be their own person. Witness Laura Bush, who in her h...
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FLOP Annual sessions bad idea that would be best undone
When Kentucky lawmakers from both political parties campaigned in the late 1990s for annual sessions of the legislature, the Paducah Sun opposed the move. In the ensuing years, we’ve seen nothin...
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Medicaid recipients ill-served under Kentucky’s new managed care system
Just over a year ago, Kentucky began a statewide Medicaid managed care program under which three private organizations provide health coverage for approximately 560,000 Medicaid patients. Because o...
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Leeper right, annual sessions have proved to be disaster
Cheers to Paducah Independent Sen. Bob Leeper for filing a bill limiting Kentucky General Assembly sessions to every other year instead of annually. Before voters approved a constitutional amend...
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GUTLESS House takes another pass on real pension reform
The Kentucky House of Representatives gutted the Senate pension reform bill, striking the provision most essential to the long-term solvency of the state’s public employee pension funds. The Hou...
Mar 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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