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Close loophole in smoking ban
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Law never intended to exempt bingo halls

Lexington would rise up in open rebellion against a return to smoking in restaurants and other public spaces.

Turn on the GPS
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Keep track of offenders while saving state funds

It costs taxpayers a lot of money to keep people who commit crimes behind bars, and almost all of them get out eventually.

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  • Parasitic growth risk to farm fund
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    Nitpicking accountability was an early complaint about the state agency that disburses public money for agricultural ventures.

  • Burgoo: Something to stew over
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    Unfolding events often cast a new light on statements or promises that came before.

  • Game day patrols long overdue
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    No one wants to look out the window from home and see a couch aflame on the street surrounded by a bevy of boisterous drunks, or wake up on Sunday morning to streets littered with trash.

  • Wise investment
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    Ripples from the sub-prime borrowing binge are feeling more like a tidal wave. It's even threatening to swamp students trying to finance a college education.

  • From chamber's lips to legislature's ear

    What if all the 13-year-olds in Kentucky knew that they would be able to afford to go to college?

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    Moving ahead on equine drug ban

    There has long been a strange split personality at work in Kentucky horse racing.

  • Setting rules for Transportation
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    A spate of disturbing, if not surprising, accusations about corruption in the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet have come to light in the past week.

  • Breathing more easily
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    Lexington has benefited from a steep decline in emergency-room visits for asthma since enacting a smoking ban four years ago.

  • Drilling lies into voters' heads
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    Republicans have picked their hot button for 2008. From John McCain on down, they're laying on that hot button as if their political lives depend on it.

  • On the right track
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    Thank you, Keeneland. Last week, Keeneland laid out plans to, well, plan for updating and expanding while preserving what makes our local track among the most treasured anywhere.

  • Lower coal-truck weight limit
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    As the Beshear team wisely searches for ways to stretch road construction dollars while making highways safer, here's one obvious element: Protect pavement (and people) from being pulverized by trucks.

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    Add public voice to EPA deal
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    In a brief, remarkable order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Karl Forester told Lexington's government and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to go back to the negotiating table to cut a better deal for this community.

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    Highway department cleanup

    According to the National Asphalt Pavement Association, the word asphalt derives from the Greek asphaltos, meaning secure.

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    Nursing law needs clout

    The Kentucky General Assembly has another to-do on its list for the next session: Give some muscle to the law protecting mothers who breast-feed in public.

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    Electric-car idea green, but not gold
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    Gov. Steve Beshear's latest executive order, which cleared the way for Kentuckians to operate low-speed electric cars in the state's urban areas, made an admirable ”green“ statement.

  • Kentucky VOices

    Kentucky voices
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    By Daniel Rowland

    Pivotal moments, crossroad moments, occur in the life of every community, where the choices made reveal community values and set the pattern for years to come. In the CentrePointe debate, Lexington faced such a moment and made the wrong choice.

  • Pulling in reins on steroid use
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    The move to ban anabolic steroids in thoroughbred racing got a huge boost last weekend when Breeders' Cup threw its considerable prestige and hefty purses behind the effort.

  • Show us the money men
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    The attorney for The Webb Companies caused quite a stir Tuesday when he refused to give any indication of exactly who plans to spend $250 million in cash to build the CentrePointe development.

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