An Indepth Analysis of News and Trends Affecting West Kentucky
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 Ed Jackson of Water Valley, Kentucky |
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| Hog Farm Neighbor Wants Peaceful Enjoyment He once enjoyed sitting out on the deck of his house to relax. Not anymore. More often than not, he says, he can’t sit out on the deck. The smell is more than he can stand. Ed has the bad fortune of living within a half mile of Curtis Hancock’s farm. See the full story ...
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Health Survey News Not Good for Kentucky
We’re fat. We don’t get enough exercise. We eat the wrong things. We smoke. We don’t see the doctor enough – and when we do, he tells 6 out of 100 of us that we’ve had a heart attack and have coronary disease. A “lucky few” will find out they have diabetes.
That’s the news from the Kentucky Health Department from its 2007 health survey of Kentuckians.
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 “Barack Obama votes with us 98 percent of the time and John McCain votes with us 16 percent of the time,” Wiggins said. “That makes Obama 82 percent better for labor." |
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| GOP ‘sucker bait’
MAYFIELD, Ky. – Thirty-four percent of union members and retirees are undecided about the election “and are open to either candidate,” according to an AFL-CIO report.
One in three people who pack union cards don’t know whom to vote for? I don’t get it.
-- A recent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll has President Bush’s overall job approval rating at 25 percent.
-- Through last year, Sen. John McCain, the Republican who wants to succeed Bush, had voted for Bush-backed bills almost 90 percent of the time, according to a 2007 Congressional Quarterly report. He voted the Bush way 95 percent of the time in 2007.
See the full story ... Berry Craig |
Prejudice in the Voting Booth is Both Wrong and Dumb
Editor's Note: Al Cross reminded us this morning that his blog covered the Trumka speech in an article dated July 4th. Check it out
The Rural Blog
"A lot of them are good union people," Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer, told the United Steelworkers of America. "They just can't get past the idea that there's something wrong with voting for a black man."
It's as simple as crunching the numbers: Obama 98 is percent pro-labor; McCain is 16 percent.MAYFIELD, Ky. – Some white folks still can't bring themselves to support Sen. Barack Obama for president because he is African American. See the full story ... Berry Craig |
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Breakfast for Supper
Walking into the restaurant was like returning to the old home place of my youth. Food was everywhere. People—whole families were laughing and having a good ole time. 
The entire mood of the room soon melted away the stress of the wild drive from Paducah. See the full story ... Ivan Potter - WKJPI Food Critic |
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