An Indepth Analysis of News and Trends Affecting West Kentucky
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Minority leader Rep. Jeff Hoover led GOP members in vote against budget bill. |
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Last week in the General Assembly
The House passed a executive budget in a partisan vote after a debate that at times sounded more like Washington than Frankfort. GOP members of the House shut off from the money tree that is the state budget accused the Dems of playing politics. The Dems didn't bother to deny the politics. They did deny they were playing. Earlier in the week, Democrats had stripped road projects from counties represented by Republicans.
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Salvador Dali obviously liked daylight savings time as much as the rest of us. |
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Ravings of a sleep deprived citizen
I am convinced that many of our sleep dysfunctions are caused by changing the wretched clocks twice a year. The hour change means that sleep patterns must be reestablished and that is not good for the human body. We need sleep and we need it regularly to function.
When 6:00 am becomes 7:00 am, then a few months later is 6:00 a.m. again, that’s just not healthy. Instead of taking a sleep aid, we need to get a schedule established and stick to it. Any infant’s parent will be the first to say that changing sleep times makes for a cranky baby. It also makes for cranky adults. See the full story ...
Mary Potter |
Ag Commish Richie Farmer with "Kentucky Proud" poster contest winners |
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Commissioner Farmer honors poster contest winners
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer honored the winners of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s 2010 Poster and Essay Contest at the Kentucky Agriculture Day luncheon today in Frankfort.
Students in kindergarten through 12th grade submitted posters and essays on the theme “Kentucky Proud: Growing a Healthy Kentucky.” Winners in each grade were awarded $100 savings bonds.
“The goal of this year’s contest was to encourage Kentucky students to make positive food choices to maximize their performance in the classroom, on the field of play and in the game of life,” Commissioner Farmer said. “The first step is to enjoy nutritious, great-tasting Kentucky Proud foods from growers and producers right here at home.” See the full story ...
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Jerry Walker won three Emmys. Amy Watson shared an Emmy with morning show colleagues. |
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Emmys go to MSU alums
MURRAY, Ky. – Two alumni of Murray State University’s department of journalism and mass communications won Emmy awards for their work at WTVF Channel 5 in Nashville, Tenn. Amy Bryan Watson, 1989 broadcast journalism graduate from Murray, and Jerry Walker, a 1995 electronic media graduate from Mayfield, received the awards at the 24th annual Mid-South Emmy awards banquet.
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Kentucky Wants Your Nuclear Waste - Hardly
LEO Magazine in Louisville picked up on a Newsweek story we missed. Since it involves the Governor, Paducah, the Gaseous Diffusion Plant and Senate Bill 26, Bob Leeper's bid to allow nuclear waste to be stored in West Kentucky, we think it's worth taking the time to read it.
It seems that the feds like nukes - but aren't funding disposal or storage. The Governor likes nukes because it's clean (sort of like coal). Senator Leeper likes nukes because the PGDP will be in operation or clean up into perpetuity.
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Senate Bill 142 - should the Bible be an elective? 
As a Sunday school teacher, a Christian and a former educator, I believe that Senate Bill 142 is a terrible idea for a multitude of reasons.
First, to me, as a Christian, the Bible is not just any book. It’s not Life on the Mississippi or Silas Marner or Catcher in the Rye. It is a sacred book. It is THE sacred book of my religion. To turn it into a survey course like any other survey course lowers its value to that of any other lit book that students struggle with, are bored by and then never open again. The Bible deserves better than that. It deserves the attention of those who want to read it – not just for a grade on a transcript. See the full story ...
Mary Potter - 1 opinion posted |
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