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Doom, doom, metaphysical doom
Gov. Beshear - official call next week for a June 15th special session.
Doom, doom, metaphysical doom
Statement from Gov. Steve Beshear on
official economic forecast

"The Consensus Forecasting Group has made clear today the significant budgetary challenge before us. We now face a $996 million shortfall for the General Fund and a $239.1 million shortfall for the Road Fund next budget year, beginning July 1, 2009."
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Factoid: Kentuckians may be fat - but so is the rest of the US
   As a follow up to the report last week on the health behavior of Kentuckians (Kentuckians, Fatter, Sicker), we wanted to know where the state stood in comparison to the rest of the nation in obesity statistics. The good news is that Kentucky is actually a little better than the norm.
            The bad news is that not one state or territory has more than 41% of adults who are not overweight or obese. CDC Nationwide Obesity Stats
 
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Editorials

Opinion: Haves and have nots will be determined by high speed internet access
Towns that don't get on the information superhighway will be like those who missed out on the superhighways of the 1950s and 60s.
Opinion: Haves and have nots will be determined by high speed internet access
West Kentucky is already behind the rest of the state. (Okay, thank goodness for Eastern Kentucky-we’re the same pale pink on the tech map as they). We must have high speed internet. It is not a want anymore. It’s a need. Companies are not going to locate in towns where they can’t get high speed internet. Period.
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