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Ag Commish Richie Farmer with "Kentucky Proud" poster contest winners |
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Commissioner Farmer honors poster contest winners
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer honored the winners of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s 2010 Poster and Essay Contest at the Kentucky Agriculture Day luncheon today in Frankfort.
Students in kindergarten through 12th grade submitted posters and essays on the theme “Kentucky Proud: Growing a Healthy Kentucky.” Winners in each grade were awarded $100 savings bonds.
“The goal of this year’s contest was to encourage Kentucky students to make positive food choices to maximize their performance in the classroom, on the field of play and in the game of life,” Commissioner Farmer said. “The first step is to enjoy nutritious, great-tasting Kentucky Proud foods from growers and producers right here at home.” See the full story ...
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Jerry Walker won three Emmys. Amy Watson shared an Emmy with morning show colleagues. |
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Emmys go to MSU alums
MURRAY, Ky. – Two alumni of Murray State University’s department of journalism and mass communications won Emmy awards for their work at WTVF Channel 5 in Nashville, Tenn. Amy Bryan Watson, 1989 broadcast journalism graduate from Murray, and Jerry Walker, a 1995 electronic media graduate from Mayfield, received the awards at the 24th annual Mid-South Emmy awards banquet.
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Kentucky Wants Your Nuclear Waste - Hardly
LEO Magazine in Louisville picked up on a Newsweek story we missed. Since it involves the Governor, Paducah, the Gaseous Diffusion Plant and Senate Bill 26, Bob Leeper's bid to allow nuclear waste to be stored in West Kentucky, we think it's worth taking the time to read it.
It seems that the feds like nukes - but aren't funding disposal or storage. The Governor likes nukes because it's clean (sort of like coal). Senator Leeper likes nukes because the PGDP will be in operation or clean up into perpetuity.
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LEO Magazine |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu's speech to be on KET |
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Tutu's MSU speech to run on KET
MURRAY, Ky. – Kentucky Educational Television (KET) public programming will feature Murray State University’s 2010 Presidential Lecture Series through March 26. This year’s lecturer was Archbishop Desmond Tutu, world-renowned human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Tutu spoke on campus on Feb. 22 to a large crowd in MSU’s Regional Special Events Center.
Beginning with his opposition to apartheid in South Africa, Tutu has worked tirelessly to spread peace, justice and democracy, and to end racial divisions throughout the world. In recent years, he has turned his attention to a different cause – the campaign against HIV/AIDS. The archbishop has made appearances around the globe to help raise awareness of the disease and its tragic consequences in human lives.
Airing dates, times and KET channels for the MSU Presidential Lecture given by Tutu follow:
On KETKY – Thursday, March 4, 11 p.m.; Friday, March 5, 11 a.m.; Sunday, March 14, 6 a.m.; Monday, March 15, 2 p.m.; Tuesday, March 16, 5 a.m.; and Thursday, March 18, 9 a.m. A final airing on KET1 will occur on Friday, March 26, at 2 a.m. All times are Eastern Standard Time.
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Mongiardo starts television ads
Dr. Dan Mongiardo is targeting outgoing Senator Jim Bunning in this first ad. Citing his run against Bunning in 2004, Mongiardo's ad says that "...He stood up for Kentucky workers-taking on Bunning and Tea Party supporters."
For those of you who have been living in the Alaskan outback for the past year, Lt. Governor Mongiardo and Attorney General Jack Conway are the major candidates for the Democratic nomination to replace Bunning. Secretary of State Trey Grayson and Dr. Rand Paul are the major candidates on the GOP side. Winners in the May primary will compete in November for a six year term.
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Mary Potter |
It was cold. It was breezy. But the faithful showed up. |
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Fifteen show up for protest
subtitled What I Learned Standing Out in the Cold for an hour and a half
About fifteen Clinton rate payers showed up Monday evening between 5:45 and 6 and braved the cold to protest the City's inaction. Most of the City Council came early to the meeting - avoiding running the "gauntlet" of protesters. After standing out in the cold wind - the March lion roaring in to freeze noses and toes - everyone outside wound up inside the meeting.
What I learned about the sewer project once inside was:
First, the engineers weren't sure where the sewer lines ran when they started the project. That meant their projections of the volume for the lift station was underestimated.
Second, the wrong pumps for the job were installed ($20,000) and now new pumps ($50,000) need to be installed. They will be better, faster, more efficient, painted red white and blue and powering a giant American flag. (Okay, I made that last part up).
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Mary Potter |
Where's the money?
Last August, Governor Beshear came to Clinton and brought a check for $730,000 for the sewer rehabilitation project. It's March 2010 and the money the governor brought is somewhere safe - or so we've been told. Where it's not is being applied to the bond to bring the cost of sewer service down for local residents. That's why residents will gather in protest Monday evening during the City Council meeting.
On August 12, 2009, Governor Steve Beshear will be in West Kentucky giving out $$$ on Wednesday.
Fulton County at 9:30. Hickman County at 11. Henderson at 1:00.
For a list of grants and the full schedule, follow the link See the full story ...
Mary Potter |
Why I'm picketing Clinton City Hall on Monday
Below is a portion of the letter I sent to the Hickman County Gazette...
...In October, I vowed that if nothing was done to reduce the rates that I would picket the March 1st City Council meeting. The City’s inaction has caused real hardship. People are doing without to pay their combined water and sewer bills. City government seems deaf to the suffering that the increased sewer rates have caused...
So, come Monday, March 1st, before the six o’clock meeting. I will be on the sidewalk outside of City Hall holding a sign. I invite residents unhappy with their bills to join me in silent witness. We will witness the fact that the City has not used the Governor’s money as he intended it to be used. See the full story ...
Mary Potter |
Emerge KY starts this weekend
Emerge Kentucky Announces 24 Candidates for the 2010 Training Program
Program Recruits and Trains Women to Run for Office
Emerge Kentucky, a non-profit organization established in 2009 to recruit and train Democratic women to run for public office, today announced the names of the 24 women who will be members of the inaugural class that begins with its kick-off weekend on February 26, 2010. The new class represents Kentucky’s cultural and geographic diversity with women coming from areas all around Kentucky including Louisville, Lexington and Northern Kentucky, as well as Maysville, Meade County and Glasgow.
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Mary Potter |
Conway campaign reacts to cap n' trade statement
Jack’s statement for post:
“I am on record against cap and trade legislation. It runs completely counter to my goal of creating quality jobs for families in the Commonwealth. I cannot support any measure that would raise electricity rates by hundreds of dollars per Kentucky household and cost our state over 16,000 jobs,” Conway said. “There is an urgent need to preserve and grow Kentucky’s energy and manufacturing industries so we can create jobs. Coal is a valuable resource and that is why, If I am elected to be the next Senator from the Commonwealth, I will fight to ensure its place in our nation’s future.”
Editor's Note: Allison Haley of the Conway Campaign called this morning and chided me for my lack of quotation marks around his opponent's assertion that Conway is for cap and trade. At her request, I am posting his response. Mea culpa, Allison. See the full story ...
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Kentucky High Speed Rail - Connecting the Nation
I usually try to post a link to one article or paper a day to the benefits of HSR and especially those that reflect mostly on the benefits of HSR in Kentucky. I will admit I am not a writer or journalist in no way whatsoever, nor am I really an activist. I have always thought that HSR in the U.S. was a great idea (even before Obama got everyone excited) and thought I would share what I could.
I am looking for like-minded people to become contributers to my site. If this is something you will be interested in, or know of somebody that is, please let me know.
EDITOR'S NOTE: I added Matt's Facebook site to our "sites of interest" - Matt wants to get a dialogue going - so those of you who are interested in choo choo trains that go very fast- join Matt over at Facebook.
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Matt Goetz |
Tutu to young people - keep dreaming of a better world. |
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Archbishop Tutu wows crowd of 4000
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu spoke to a crowd of approximately 4,000 on Monday evening. Tutu was on campus as the 2010 Presidential Lecturer. Initially scheduled to speak in a smaller hall, the speech was moved to the largest venue on campus. It would not be an exageration to say that a pin drop would have sounded like a shot in the quiet of the room while Tutu spoke. The crowd made up of college students, young people and adults from all over the region, listened intently as the Archbishop spoke for forty five minutes.
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Mary Potter |
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu urged reporters to find good things to report on young people |
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Tutu to Press - report some good things
At a press conference preceding a speech at MSU, Bishop Desmond Tutu chided reporters for their reporting on young people. The press focuses on the negative too much.
"It is not such a wonder how many young people go off the rails - but how many do not." See the full story ...
Mary Potter |
Six bills have become law in the first half of the 2010 Session. |
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Over halfway through the session - six bills become law
The last week of February marked the week past the halfway point of the Session. Since last week, the House has added 79 more bills to the hopper. tHEIR total is up to 539 bills. The Senate added 19 new bills for a total of 180 bills.
The Governor has signed six bills.
To quote Jeff Goldblum's character as his father toodles down the highway into Washington in the alien invasion movie "Independence Day:"
MUST. GO. FASTER. See the full story ...
Mary Potter |
Greenville Kentucky National Guard Facility goes green.
The Kentucky National Guard announced that solar panels installed on the administration building and two barracks will supplement electric usage and save operating capital.
The solar panels were paid for with $550,000 from President Obama’s stimulus funds. Solar power will not only defray electrical expenses, but will send energy back into the electrical grid. In essence, the KNG will become energy suppliers to the grid.
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Mary Potter |
There are no articles in this section. Senate Bill 142 - should the Bible be an elective? 
As a Sunday school teacher, a Christian and a former educator, I believe that Senate Bill 142 is a terrible idea for a multitude of reasons.
First, to me, as a Christian, the Bible is not just any book. It’s not Life on the Mississippi or Silas Marner or Catcher in the Rye. It is a sacred book. It is THE sacred book of my religion. To turn it into a survey course like any other survey course lowers its value to that of any other lit book that students struggle with, are bored by and then never open again. The Bible deserves better than that. It deserves the attention of those who want to read it – not just for a grade on a transcript. See the full story ...
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