May 25, 2013
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Mayor, staff played ‘Scrooge’ booting homeless from camp
EDITOR: Mayor Paxton and the rest of the pack have more compassion for homeless dogs than homeless people. Homeless dogs are placed in a shelter. Homeless people are kicked out of their shelter ...
Jan 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lawmakers, judges need to wake up to real crime
EDITOR: I read the article in the Dec. 28 edition titled, “Neighbor admits to killing Indiana girl.” Frankly I’m appalled. This trailer park full of sex offenders, to a guy like me who has tw...
Jan 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bolden a loving person, will be missed by many
EDITOR: Theresa Bolden was a common, loving person. She chose to live in a unique way — some ways like her ancestors had done before her. Her property dates back into generations. Theresa was...
Jan 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Times provide contrasts between self-reliant, dependent lifestyles
EDITOR: Recently, Mr. Tanner (in his Nov. 19 letter to The Paducah Sun) and Mr. Obama (in his Osawatomie, Kan., speech) both lamented that capitalism isn’t working. But an attentive analysis of ...
Jan 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Found money purchased food items for the needy
EDITOR: On a chilly night after Christmas, the Paducah Ambassadors had the privilege of manning the booth at the Paducah Power System’s Christmas light display in Noble Park. A family came throu...
Jan 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Local vacant buildings could be used by homeless
EDITOR: Tent City needs help to fight for our people in Tent City in Paducah. The Today Show has been contacted and we would love more local support, more than what has been given by our governo...
Jan 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Households could never run on government budget math
EDITOR: Another way to look at our financial situation. Why the U.S. was downgraded: n U.S. tax revenue (income): $2,170,000,000,000. n Federal budget (spending): $3,820,000,000,000. ...
Jan 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tent City a special place where lives were bettered
EDITOR: Over the last few days I have read and watched stories about Tent City. I remember Sammie, the man who started the camp in 2008, who now lives in Marion, Ky. I remember the different gro...
Jan 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Humans ordered out of tents while dogs, cats given shelter
EDITOR: It would seem, according to the news media, that Paducah is a great place for quilters and abandoned cats and dogs — not so much for homeless humans (Tent City) or unattractive housing (...
Jan 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Country demands constant power supply, not one that fluctuates
EDITOR: I spent 31 years as a power plant operator at TVA’s Shawnee Power Plant. The largest windmills currently in operation are 300 feet tall with three blades and require about one acre of...
Jan 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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