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Posted on: March 30, 2009
After the tragic fire that destroyed Second Baptist Church's sanctuary and the annex under construction overnight last Thursday night, the congregation met on Friday evening to chart their future.
By Saturday, a sign planted in front of the old church told the story of their decision to use the Clinton landmark as their new home.
Posted on: March 28, 2009
 The Hickman County High School Green Team has set up a recycling trailer behind the First Methodist Church. Saturday, March 28th was their first day of operation.
Posted on: March 28, 2009
The facade on Perkins Drug on Clay Street in Clinton is coming down in the March wind of the last Saturday of the month. Note the beautiful facade under the metal strips.
Posted on: March 27, 2009
 Second Baptist Church on McMorris Street in Clinton was completely destroyed by a fire that started between midnight Thursday night and one o'clock Friday morning. A police patrol passed the church at twelve and saw nothing amiss. On a second round around 12:45, police saw flames and called the local fire department. Witnesses said that the church was a total loss by 1:30 Friday morning. No cause of the fire has been determined.
Church members will meet at First Christian Church on North Washington St. on Friday at 5:00 to discuss an interim meeting site. The church was adding an annex near the building that burned. Pastor Larry Fraser said the church will be rebuilt. Donations were already coming in as the embers of the ruined church smoldered.
Posted on: March 26, 2009
By: Press Release - Brian Wilkerson, Communications Director, LRC
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House Democrats concludesuccessful legislative session
Posted on: March 26, 2009
AN ACT relating to nuclear power.
Amend KRS 278.600 to delete repealed statutory reference; require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means for permanent disposal; and define "storage"; amend KRS 278.610 to delete repealed statutory reference and the requirement that the Public Service Commission certify the facility as having a means for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; change all references to the disposal of nuclear waste to the storage of nuclear waste; repeal KRS 278.605.
 David Floyd, House (R-Bardstown) was the only sponsor not from West Kentucky
Posted on: March 26, 2009
When it comes to health, job satisfaction, life evaluation, basic access to nutrition and health care and physical and emotional health, the 1st District ranks only better than the Fifth Congressional District in Eastern Kentucky. Congressional District Map. .jpg)
In an unprecedented Alliance for American health transformation, Gallup, Healthways and America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) http://www.ahip.org/are providing a new national pulse of individual and collective health and well-being, as well as solutions for a healthy America. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index™, designed to be the Dow Jones of Health, gives a measure of people's well-being.
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Unemployment in rural America jumped from 7.6% in December to 9.4% in January, 2009. That far higher than the 8.25% January percentage in urban areas, up from 7% in December.
Maps, charts and cogent, comprehensive content at Daily Yonder
Posted on: March 25, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press: 2009 is the year without an election. I looked forward to this year. In part, because I foolishly thought you could concentrate your not inconsequential talents on issues that mean a great deal to your fellow citizens. Instead, I read almost daily speculation of who will run in the 2010 elections.
Posted on: March 25, 2009
 FRANKFORT, Ky. — Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer said two bills passed in this year’s state legislative session will strengthen Kentucky’s Grain Insurance Fund and enable the state to continue providing certain agricultural services.
Posted on: March 25, 2009
The chair of the West Kentucky caucus, Sen. Dorsey Ridley (D-Henderson) appealed to members to take up two bills during the last two days of the session. One bill, HB 107 will set up a separate transportation authority to evaluate highway projects for recommendation to the state. See the Fiscal Note on this legislation.
The second bill, HB 229 is a potpourri of spending provisions - money for horse racing, money for retraining, money for first time new home buyers, money for equipment and on and on. HB 229
Ridley's appeal to pass the bills runs counter to Speaker Stumbo's and the House majority's decision not to bring up legislation for a vote during veto days.
More of this story is At the River's Bend, the online version of the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer. Owen Covington, who covers Frankfort for the paper, wrote the piece. We consider him to be one of the most underappreciated reporters on the Frankfort beat.
Posted on: March 24, 2009
 The EPA is suspending hundreds of licenses for mountaintop removal, citing the Clean Water Act Huffington Post There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from those who level the mountains of Appalachia.
Posted on: March 23, 2009
 Rural Journalism is reporting that farmers will have to authorize the Internal Revenue Service to give their income data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in order to receive federal payments, in response to an investigation that found almost $50 million went to ineligible recipients last year.
Posted on: March 20, 2009
The Paducah Sun is reporting that the Governor is seeking a "compromise" on nuclear power. He's had private meetings with Co. Judge Van Newberry and Mayor Paxton of Paducah. Rocky Adkins, who had opposed the measure, has no problem with it. He says it needs more study. Why not? Rocky lives on the other side of the state from whatever atomic energy plant would be built.
We smell a deal. With the heady odor of jobs, jobs, jobs, wafting in official noses, there's no room for thoughts of the environment, the rivers, the groundwater, sick workers, waste disposal and real alternative energy sources.
Hey, Guv. Why not locate the first plant next to your farm? Or next to the Horse Park??
Posted on: March 20, 2009
Posted on: March 20, 2009
Researchers at Northwestern and Purdue Universities issued a report that indicates the New Madrid Fault may be shutting down. Using GPS monitoring devices, the  team of scientists determined that the fault is moving less than 0.2 millimeters a year. The report will be published in Science Magazine and there’s more at Terradaily.com
At left, Reelfoot Lake was created by the 1811 quake.
Posted on: March 19, 2009
Caleb Smith over at KY Wordsmith has an exclusive look at Governor Beshear and Floor Leader Rocky Adkins division over nuclear power in the energy bill. Beshear at odds with Dem lawmakers The Kentucky Senate added the language to the bill after the House passed it and Adkins is not pleased.
Posted on: March 19, 2009
 When I received a response from Larry Schumacher, president of Utility Inc. this morning to the AIG story this morning, I posted it verbatim on our homepage right under the account that he disputed.
Now I am confused. A savvy reader sent me a press release dated May 18, 2005 bearing the headline "AIG HIGHSTAR CAPITAL ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF UTILITIES, INC. FROM NUON". The press release sure sounds like AIG thought it bought Utilities, Inc.
I await Mr. Schumacher's response with breathless anticipation and I welcome his clarification.
To see a scan of the press release, read on.
Posted on: March 19, 2009
I got a response from Larry Schumacher of Utilities, Inc. about the AIG connection to his company:
In response to your article "AIG comes to Clinton" I must point out a glaring error. Utilities, Inc. the parent of Water Services of Kentucky, Inc. is NOT a subsidary of AIG. The investor in Utilities, Inc. is Highstar Capital. Yes AIG did make an investment in Highstar Capital and so did approximately 70 other entities. Our investor, Highstar Capital is an independent private equity partnership, of which AIG (and 70 others) has invested money in. Highstar has benefited from an affiliation with AIG and in the earlier days of the fund Highstar even used the AIG name in markeing since they were a fund sponser. Obviously this is when AIG had a better public reputation. If you go to the Highstar Capital website (www.highstarcapital.com) you can get more information about the investor in Utilities, Inc. and see that we are in fact not a subidary of AIG. I would appreciate it if you could correct this error in your prior report. In addition, if you have any questions about the ownership of the water utility or anything else please do not hesitate to contact my office. Larry Schumacher President & CEO
Posted on: March 18, 2009
Daily Yonder examines Medicare Advantage, a program offered by private insurers to Medicare recipients, that is supposed to offer more choice of coverage to rural seniors. Rural residents use the program less than the national average and far less than their urban cousins.
Posted on: March 17, 2009
 Two Kentucky towns, Middlesboro and Clinton, get their water from a company called Water Services of Kentucky, Inc. Water Services of Kentucky, Inc. is a subsidiary of Utilities, Inc. which is a subsidiary of AIG, Inc. On December 30, 2008, Water Services of Kentucky, Inc., grandchild of AIG, filed a request with the Kentucky Public Service Commission to approve a whopping 50.8% rate hike.
While the American taxpayer bails out the parent company, the subsidiary, like a baby asp bites two small towns. Welcome to the world of AIG!
Posted on: March 14, 2009
 Everybody has seen The Wizard of Oz sometime. The 1939 Judy Garland film is shown on television at least yearly Many of us profess to having read the book that started it all by L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz should probably go on the top ten list of books that Americans say they have read, but really didn’t.
... I know now what I missed because I finished reading “The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy, Wicked Wisdom of the West” edited by Randall E. Auxier and Phillip S. Seng, published in 2008 by Open Court in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series. Essays on all things Ozian fill the book. Philosophers throughout the book link Baum’s characters to Socrates, Plato, Hegel and Langer.
Posted on: March 14, 2009
For weeks, the news media have been buzzing about earmarks in the recently signed omnibus spending bill. We've been told over and over that the bill is "loaded," "filled," and "stuffed" with earmarks. Since earmarks made up less than 2 percent of the bill's total spending, this is a little like saying Alaska is "filled" with people.
...Then there's CNN. The cable channel has cited the honeybee funding several times, never bothering to explain it. Last Saturday, for example, CNN's Josh Levs offered examples of earmarks in the bill -- John McCain's examples, of course: "Take a look. John McCain named some. We're going to show you some examples, $1.7 million for a honeybee factory in Texas, another $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa. There's a million dollars in there for cricket control in Utah."
Posted on: March 12, 2009
CALLING ALL POLICY WONKS!
Charts, graphs, statistics at two of the wonkiest websites lay out in excruciating detail how bad the states are doing collecting tax money.
Like DUH.
Posted on: March 12, 2009
EDITOR'S NOTE - The once busy and proud Continental Tire plant in Mayfield is now an empty shell with a sad sign out front that advertises the building for lease. In this story, veteran journalist, television show host, and union member Berry Craig writes of what happened at Continental. For those of you who think that foreign made is better and cheaper, take note. We always wonder who will buy foreign made goods when American workers, like those at Continental, are out of work. Are tires cheaper for being made offshore? Or was there more profit for the company to show Wall Street?
 MAYFIELD, Ky. - The parking lots at the big Continental-General Tire plant near Mayfield had surrendered to cracks and patches of tough, stubby grass.
The north lot is jammed again, but not with workers’ vehicles. The weather-worn asphalt is stacked with tree branches, debris from one of Kentucky 's worst ice storms
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