May 22, 2013
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Vanderbilt University’s policy hostile to religious students
EDITOR: It is a surprise to me, an alumni of Vanderbilt University, that the administration has gotten off on a left-wing tangent of practicing a “little trickle down tyranny” demanding that “al...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Area voters have elected officials who favor wealthy
EDITOR: Most Americans seem to favor the 99 percent over the 1 percent on issues of taxation. Against this backdrop the voters of the Purchase appear to be determined to vote for senators and a ...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Economy in worse shape than Washington numbers indicate
EDITOR: With all due respect, the employment figures and guesstimates coming out of Washington, D.C., are not really stating the truth of the serious situation this nation is still in. The fo...
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Western Kentucky memorial to southern troops appreciated
EDITOR: I am really happy the Kentucky Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has stepped up to erect a Confederate memorial in Paducah. My SCV Camp in Union City, Tenn., already has a mem...
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Disconnect exists between wet-dry issue, DUI statistics
EDITOR: It has been said that in Kentucky, when the bootleggers and preachers are preaching against the same thing, it must be a wet-dry vote. Marshall and Calloway counties will be doing just t...
Apr 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Savings from fuel-efficient cars don’t offset high purchase price
EDITOR: Where is the logic in spending roughly $20,000 on a new vehicle that gets around 40 miles per gallon when I own a nice mid-size vehicle that already gets 24 miles per gallon on average? W...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Merger option should be decided by the people
EDITOR: In the March 29 edition of The Paducah Sun, I read where the Paducah-McCracken County Merger Committee may place the merger option on the November ballot for a vote. This definitely shou...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Volunteer Week time to honor those who selflessly help others
EDITOR: In observance of National Volunteer Week April 15-21, The Legacy Personal Care Home would like to thank the volunteers who share their time and talents so freely at our center. The many ...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Visitors subjected to too many signs, unmowed properties
EDITOR: The candidates running for offices in May were asked by many boards to please hold off putting signs up. Well, I know one candidate I won’t be voting for in May. Our town has too many...
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Government distorting real unemployment rate
EDITOR: This week I read the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report that the first quarter unemployment rate was 8.2 percent. I am frustrated that the government greatly distorts this stat...
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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