DISTINCT Paducah’s attributes gain national notoriety Folks in Paducah have always known they lived in a pretty distinctive place. But it’s still nice to get some recognition. The National Trust for Hi...
Will Republicans give up sacred cows? WASHINGTON — The wrestling room at Graham High School in St. Paris, Ohio, where Jim Jordan, now 47, began the athletic career that took him to the University of Wisconsin and two NCAA wrestling ch...
PUNT Quinn’s budget doesn’t deliver promised cuts Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn delivered his budget to the legislature Wednesday. Any similarity of the budget to his description of the budget is purel...
GOP must develop knockout punches Rocky Marciano was the only heavyweight champion who never lost a single fight in his whole career — and, at the time, he seemed the least likely fighter to do that. In many a boxing match, he was...
RAISE BAR Low dropout age costs Kentucky
Requiring high school students to remain in school longer would be expensive. But not as expensive as continuing to let them drop out early.
Gov. Steve Beshear s...
Big changes will require a broad majority WASHINGTON — At first, the banquet audience at the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference paid Mitch Daniels, Indiana’s Republican governor, the conventional compliment of frequently...
SUCCESS Middle College expanding opportunities
In public education, where fads come and go, it’s often the exception when an experiment actually makes a positive impact on student success.
But the...
ILLUSORY President’s budget ignores reality
So this is what it means to live within your means.
The day after President Obama pledged, in his State of the Union address, to make the federal governm...
TRANSLATE ‘Tax reform’ in Kentucky usually means paying more
Gov. Steve Beshear is skeptical of the term “tax reform.”
“Every proposal I hear involves raising taxes on someone,” he said in a Sun editori...