May 20, 2013
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Winters’ proposal for extending foster care deserving of passage
The following excerpt is from an editorial published in The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown, Ky., on foster care legislation (March 23): While some 18-year-olds might be well-prepared for self-su...
Apr 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Think you know baseball? Try these
WASHINGTON — Think you’re ready for Opening Day? Prove it. Name the person or persons who: 1. Hit the most home runs in the 1960s. 2. In 2011, joined Hank Aaron, Brooks Robinson and Pete Rose...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A taxing problem
Buying goods and services online to avoid paying sales taxes is a time-honored practice for many consumers, but it doesn’t make it right. Tax dollars are used to build roads, provide police protect...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Job corps offers help to the needy
Sevier County has a surprising number of writers. They have written books, poetry, even newspaper stories from time to time. So wouldn’t it be nice if all those writers could form, say, a group or ...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Graduation rate in state encouraging
Tennessee and New York state share an admirable academic distinction: Both saw double-digit increases from 2002 to 2009 in the percentage of high school students who earn a diploma within four year...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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RESTRAINT Times needs a lesson in meaning of the word
The most surreal moment in the Supreme Court hearings on Obamacare happened outside the court chambers, and we don’t mean the protests in front of the Supreme Court Building. The surreal moment cam...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Job corps offers help to the needy  
Dorothy Adams was self-employed in the cleaning business for much of her adult life, but as she neared retirement she wanted to find something worthwhile and meaningful to do with her time. She ...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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EPIC Louisville v. Kentucky: a game long destined
The only thing that could be better — or worse, depending on your perspective — than the University of Louisville playing the University of Kentucky in today’s semifinals of the NCAA tournament wou...
Mar 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jackson continues to play the race card
“White Hispanic.” That’s how the New York Times, Reuters and other media outlets have opted to describe George Zimmerman, a man who would simply be Hispanic if he hadn’t shot and killed 17-year-old...
Mar 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Commerce Clause long abused by courts
When a 1942 Supreme Court decision that most people never heard of makes the front page of the New York Times in 2012, you know that something unusual is going on. What makes that 1942 case — Wi...
Mar 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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