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Showing 4 articles from January 2, 2013.

FrontPage News

Post Office Trilogy: 3# The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: the Horrow Show Called Congress
Post offices, like this one at Clifty KY, are at the mercy of Congress
Post Office Trilogy: 3# The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: the Horrow Show Called Congress
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January 2, 2013
By:
Ivan Potter, West Kentucky Journal

The Ugly: The Horror Show Called Congress

...Incapable of moving fast, Congress often covers its mistakes with demands upon weaker fish in the ocean of national governance. The United States Postal System is such a creature of weakness. The USPS is at the total mercy of Congress on decisions about rates, people, and retirement...

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Education

The Future of Education is K-20
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January 2, 2013
By:
Ivan Potter, West Kentucky Journal
Hickman, KY. - The future of education was defined recently for a West Kentucky audience. The man who presented a view of how students would learn in the future was Ken Winters, retiring First District State Senator. Winters is Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and is one Kentucky’s leading expert on educational systems.
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Community and Regional News

The legend of Tom Pyron and how Good Still Matters in the Universe
Principal Tom Pyron of Hickman Fulton Tech Center
The legend of Tom Pyron and how Good Still Matters in the Universe
Posted on:
January 2, 2013
By:
Ivan Potter, West Kentucky Journal

...The real background story was that one individual was being celebrated for his strength and undying faith in West Kentucky and the young adults who every day fight for a chance at life and a career beyond poverty.

This single tower of personal fortitude is named Tom Pyron. Because of him, the center still stands when two years ago, it was under bureaucratic attack...

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Berry Craig's History Bits

Kentucky soldiers rest for eternity next to famous memorial
Hazen Brigade Monument erected during the Civil War by Union troops.
Kentucky soldiers rest for eternity next to famous memorial
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January 2, 2013
By:
Berry Craig
 January 4, 2013 - On this date in 1863, Union army burial parties were combing the Stones River battlefield for corpses.

Eight Yankees from Kentucky would end up interred next to one of the oldest Civil War memorials.

Union troops built the Hazen Brigade Monument to their fallen comrades. The old cairn is a landmark on the Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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Mary B. Potter, Editor
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