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BACK ROOM Officials hard-pressed to defend closed meeting on sports fields
McCracken County Judge-Executive Van Newberry called a closed meeting of city and county officials last Monday to discuss options for a city-county sports complex. He did not disclose why the meeti...
May 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Election letters deadline noon Monday
Letters to the editor pertaining to candidates in the May 22 primary election must be received by The Paducah Sun editorial department no later than noon Monday, May 14. To be considered for public...
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Edwards may be guilty of being a jerk, but that’s not a federal crime
If this were a reality show and the question for the participants to decide was whether John Edwards was the most narcissistic man on the planet, the biggest liar, the worst husband and father, a s...
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Moral infrastructure crumbling too
The “Occupy” movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created. The unwillingness of autho...
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Tax policy placing jobs in jeopardy
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that becam...
May 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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EPIDEMIC Startling child obesity stats call for coordinated action
The following editorial appeared in Newsday on Sunday, May 6: Type 2 diabetes was once known as the “adult onset” type, because it came on only in adulthood. But youth no longer confers immun...
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Romney misplayed Grenell issue
“If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to st...
May 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CHALLENGE France, Germany must keep focus on fiscal responsibility
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, May 8: Sunday’s elections in France and Greece provided a jolting confirmation of some old verities. Such as: When times are b...
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Drone strikes a just defense
WASHINGTON — Scrolling through the headlines in The Long War Journal — a website dedicated to terrorism-related news — is an education in the global drone war. Mohammed Saeed al-Umda, one of Osama ...
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. should remain a beacon of freedom, protector of human rights
WASHINGTON — News that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family might be allowed to leave China for a university fellowship in the U.S. brought relief not only to Chen, but also to dissiden...
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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