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Final season concert blended beauty, laughter
EDITOR: Our Paducah Symphony Orchestra blended beauty with laughter April 21 in its final concert of the season. Like Bugs Bunny in the classic cartoons, conductor Raffaele Ponti led the PSO, it...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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School consolidation will not live up to its promises
EDITOR: You say, “Ordinarily when school systems consolidate schools, efficiencies are gained.” There is little research-based evidence to support that consolidation has solved the problems for ...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Confederate flag offensive reminder of an evil practice
EDITOR: “That was a long time ago. We need to forget the past and move on.” Some friends often express themselves in this manner when America’s most sordid, stained and shameful period of his...
May 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Save Vanishing Species stamp offers chance to help cause
EDITOR: We are facing a crisis that is usually not addressed in most social circles. It is the plight of endangered species. Rhinos are shot for their horns, elephants are killed for their tusks...
May 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Symphony’s concert series a triumph for our region
EDITOR: As Maestro Ponti lowered his baton, concluding the Triumphal Scene from Verdi’s Aida, high emotion spread throughout Carson Center Hall. The standing crowd applauded and cheered in g...
May 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Coal terminal could expose communities to more pollution
EDITOR: I feel the officials deciding to allow the planning and construction of a coal terminal in northwest McCracken County could do a great service for the people of the county and surroundin...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Volunteers with Pancreatic Cancer Action Network making a difference
EDITOR: April was National Volunteer Appreciation Month and I would like to sincerely thank all of our volunteers with the western Kentucky team of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (www.panc...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Irreparable damage to U.S. courtesy of three presidents
EDITOR: The road to Hades is paved with good intentions. Beware of unintended consequences. We’ve heard these all our lives and they’ve truly become fulfilled in the present leadership of all...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marshall County needs ‘wet’ option to compete for business investment
EDITOR: On July 17 the citizens of Marshall County will have to make a decision concerning the sale of alcohol in package stores, restaurants and grocery stores (no stand-alone bars). If this me...
May 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Spineless politicians failing to make the hard decisions
EDITOR: A feminist chewed me out for suggesting it is barbaric for any nation to send its women into the front line of combat. Here I go again. When our nation developed the nuclear bomb, our...
May 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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