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  • Philanthropist pushes to paint flaking bridges

    What began as a local concern over aesthetics in one Kentucky city, about an aging and unsightly railroad bridge, may have far-reaching implications for towns across the state and nation.

    August 25, 2010

  • Bucky Covington Country music singer finds shortcut to success

    Bucky Covington's journey into professional music is fairly standard. How he got to national prominence is a little more unusual.

    August 6, 2010 1 Photo

  • Kentucky in running for Race to the Top

    Kentucky remains in the running for funding in the second round of Race to the Top, hoping to secure as much as $175 million in funding from the pool of $3.3 billion established as part of the federal stimulus to improve low-performing schools.

    August 4, 2010

  • Money and the magic pill

    I was talking to a person in the medical profession who said, “It seems like some patients are looking for a magic pill that will solve all their problems.”

    August 1, 2010

  • BC camp Bluefield College winds down summer of camps

    July 28, 2010 1 Photo

  • Financial reform hurts poor people

    “At the dark end of the street,
    That’s where we’ll always meet.”
    — Gram Parsons
     
    One the insights that I got from Gary Rivlin’s “Broke USA” is that people often use payday lenders because they don’t have access to traditional banks.

    July 25, 2010

  • Lawmakers look at prison problems

    Lawmakers may be serious about addressing the rising costs and populations of the state’s prison and jail system.

    July 14, 2010

  • Is Kentucky sentencing kids to ‘Life or Meth?’

    I walked by a car in a parking lot that had a sticker on it that read, “Drug Courts Work.”

    June 20, 2010

  • Beshear makes vetoes to budget

    Gov Steve Beshear vetoed a measure in the state budget which would have reduced the salary of Economic Development Secretary Larry Hayes late Friday along with 18 other line-item vetoes. He also issued seven line-item vetoes in the road plan.

    June 4, 2010

  • Birthday party in Frankfort

    The state capitol is having a birthday party this weekend and you¹re invited. The venerable domed capitol building officially opened on June 2, 1910 and the state is throwing a 100th birthday party Friday evening and Saturday.

    June 3, 2010

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