May 19, 2013
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U.S. should stay out of finance game
WASHINGTON — Sallie James was born in Australia on July 4, 1976, which suggests that Providence planned what happened 30 years later: She moved to Washington. She studies trade policy at the libert...
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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NO SALE Restaurant tax bad deal for local business, patrons
Rep. Fred Nesler’s bill to allow smaller cities to impose a local sales tax at restaurants is bottled up in committee. Let’s hope it stays that way. The Mayfield Democrat says the bill would giv...
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama tries to dodge energy record
As gasoline prices climb, President Obama’s poll numbers plummet. In February, a Washington Post/ABC poll had Obama up 6 points against Mitt Romney. Monday’s poll has him down 2. According to th...
Mar 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cole Burns deserving of Horatio Alger scholarship This is the time of year when we start to learn of scholarships being awarded to local graduating seniors
Cole Burns deserving of Horatio Alger scholarship This is the time of year when we start to learn of scholarships being awarded to local graduating seniors. Any scholarship is significant and...
Mar 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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It would be unwise to buy in to ‘1 County 1 Vision’ plan Editor: I must respond to the Feb
It would be unwise to buy in to ‘1 County 1 Vision’ plan Editor: I must respond to the Feb. 28 editorial supporting “1 County 1 Vision.” That title asserts that the upcoming Sevier Co...
Mar 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rule-making onslaught has got to terminate
“If you have 10,000 regulations,” Winston Churchill said, “you destroy all respect for law.” He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. Tha...
Mar 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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DEBACLE Olmsted delays, overruns typical of Washington
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced it will decide soon how to build the Olmsted Dam. Wait a minute — hasn’t that project been under way since, well, forever? And now the corps is adm...
Mar 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dems benefit from statistical hoaxes
There have been many frauds of historic proportions — for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D. Roosevelt was prai...
Mar 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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OPTIONS Winters’ school transfer bill offers fair compromise
State Sen. Ken Winters is sponsoring legislation that would allow Kentucky students to attend school in a district other than the one they reside in without paying tuition. The well-crafted bill pu...
Mar 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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2012 election a prelude to what promises to be a far-more interesting 2016
WASHINGTON — Enough about the 2012 election already. Let’s talk 2016, which promises to be far more interesting — and consequential. The precise contours of that election, of course, will be sha...
Mar 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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