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World a better place with Jon Will
WASHINGTON — When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. That is understa...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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DROP IT Appealing judge’s ruling would waste public funds
The McCracken County Fiscal Court has had its day in court — and lost. It’s time to move on. The county sued the city of Paducah over the annexation of a tract of land where Paducah Power System...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Whether regulations really kill jobs depends on who does the math
WASHINGTON — It is a seemingly immutable law of modern Republican rhetoric that the word “regulation” can never appear unadorned by the essential adjective: “job-killing.” As in nominee-in-waiti...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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OOPS Reformed climate alarmist postpones global mayhem
The scientist who warned the world that billions would die this century as a result of global warming has a new message for humankind: Never mind. “All right,” said chemist, environmentalist ...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Immigration, welfare policies clash
With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law, we’re once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen — a...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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LET’S VOTE Time to poll community on city-county merger
The voters should decide whether they are best served with city and county governments separate or merged into a single urban county government. The Paducah-McCracken County merger commission shoul...
May 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Reform Conservatism a clear winner
WASHINGTON — The last few years have been the most decisive and divisive ideological period since the early 1980s, perhaps since the late 1960s. Barack Obama has pursued Keynesian economics on a br...
May 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Confiscate Frankfort’s shovels before we’re deeper in debt
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — There’s a lot to “dig” about being a Kentuckian this time of the year. The bluegrass is blooming and the national spotlight soon will shine on the Kentucky Derby. But t...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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No one in Washington apparently heard grim news on Social Security and Medicare
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune April 24: No, we won’t be sending donations to the Campaign for Primary Accountability, the political action committee that fights the hug...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second-term socks in Obama’s drawer
WASHINGTON — Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner arrived in the Oval Office bearing socks. President Obama had admired Wenner’s flashy pair on a previous visit, and this gift fit the bill: one pair...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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