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Reaching a state budget agreement not easy task
Reaching a state budget agreement in this economic climate in just nine working days may seem about as likely as finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but lawmakers hope to have a two-y...
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House Members Shift Their Attention from Budget to Other Key Issues
As the Senate received and began work on the 2011-2012 biennial budget, we, in the House, turned our focus toward other pressing matters facing the Commonwealth.
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Tough decisions lie ahead for state Senate
FRANKFORT — The job of late-session policymaking has produced a $17.5 billion House budget plan that would free up dollars for infrastructure and critical needs while erasing a looming $1 billio...
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Our rights of free speech under attack
FREE SPEECH : Whatever happened to free speech in the United States? Just recently, Geert Wilders was refused admission to the United States because he was being prosecuted in his home country ...
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Reflecting on Appalachian, Irish connections
DUBLIN — As I sit in pubs in Ireland and listen to the music, watch the dancing, and observe the faces of the ancients in the audience or on the stage, my mind goes back to my father and the jo...
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Tournament time here in Kentucky
March 1 is a significant day in Kentucky, especially in small towns and rural areas. It is the “beginning of the end” for high school basketball across the commonwealth.
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Comments illustrate our problems
by John Henson
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Please excuse me for a moment to play a round of Jeopardy before we begin this week’s column.
Roads could pave the way to progress
by JOHN HENSON
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After years of delays and disappointments, Harlan Countians received some good news last weekend with the release of the six-year road plan that includes money for the completion of U.S. 421 to the...
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