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Kentucky Power Politics and Regional Disasters

Power politics follows the money in Kentucky. And now in 2010, a whole lot of money is being directed toward disaster recovery and disaster planning. During the past four years, there have been seven Presidential Disaster Declarations for Kentucky. The latest being the last week of July:  President declares disaster in Pike Co.flooding Nasty business! Having a Presidential statement naming your state as ground zero for major disasters is something you, as a state or local leader, would really just as well pass the honor to someone else.

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Temporal Intelligence and Kentucky

 "...State planning in Kentucky has all but collapsed from any serious attempt to link state budget forces to local or regional realities of urban and rural problem solving. Kentucky planning has become bankrupt of its ability to engage futurists in preparing for temporal intelligence...

During the last actions of the Kentucky General Assembly, the members saw fit to kill its own forecasting agency, the Long Term Policy Research Center, for fear of having facts be delivered to them as they spent money to protect special interests...

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