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 Emergency service personnel treat a 51 year old McConnell, TN. man after he was located in dense woods |
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| Missing man found by emergency crews Emergency crews were called out on Wednesday, July 21st, to locate a missing Tennessee man. According to his wife, the couple was driving on the parkway when her husband got out of the vehicle, walked into the corn field and continued into the woods. The wife was in contact with him via cell phone until he refused to answer her call. See the full story ... Jim Hartz |
2010 MSU Agri-Energy Field Day
Aug. 5 2010 MSU Agri-Energy Field Day: Agri-Energy, A New Era in Agriculture Murray State University, Pullen Farm, Murray (Noon – 4 p.m. CDT): This event is a joint educational program for agriculture producers, agribusinesses and MSU agriculture students. The event is focused on providing an update on cutting edge information for rapidly evolving Agri-Energy initiatives. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m. and program to begin at 1:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Call (270) 809-3556 to reserve your spot. For more information, contact Rhea Wright at rhea.wright@murraystate.edu or visit www.murraystate.edu/agr. See the full story ...
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 Gail Collins disses Paul and Conway in "My Old Kentucky Zombies" |
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| Oh. Dear. KY Senate Race makes NYT Editorial Page
Editor's Note: Oh. Dear. Gail Collins of the New York Times has an editorial about Kentucky's two senatorial candidates. To say it's unflattering would be damning with faint praise. And yes, I know I can't say the d word at the Fancy Farm Picnic! Though if the debate looks and sounds as Collins describes, everyone in the audience may be driven to obscenity before it is over.
Follow the link and read the whole opinion. According to Al Cross, Collins is from Ohio - so maybe she's just jealous of our politicians? Or not.
"Rand Paul, the most famous of the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate nominees, is a small, curly-haired man with cheeks like a chipmunk. He speaks in a tone of extreme reason that nevertheless suggests he is way smarter than anybody else in the room. In a teen horror movie, he would be the kid who invents the potion that turns the sophomore class into zombies.
Jack Conway, his Democratic opponent, would be the handsome football quarterback. The football quarterback who is not the hero of the film but rather the first person to have his brain eaten. The hero would be played by Zac Efron, who would never be caught dead in the Senate." See the full story ...
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 Former legislator Frank Rasche is out of a job. |
| Rasche fired from Dept. of Ed
Former Paducah representative Frank Rasche has been fired by the Department of Education in what was described as“reorganization” of the Department and cost saving measure. It has been two years and one day since he announced his resignation from the General Assembly to take the job. Rasche Resigning July 22, 2008
Almost a year ago, Lowell Reese wrote:
“Ex-legislator Frank Rasche, D-Paducah, served 15 years in the House before resigning in 2008 to accept an $80,000-a-year position in the Beshear administration in the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. That state job increases his legislative pension to $33,000 a year from $14, 841 – a gain of $18,159 a year for the rest of his life. The lifetime gain is estimated at $329,949. He voted for the bill.”
Super Rich Pensions Root of Political Change, KY Roll Call, September 22, 2009 See the full story ...
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 All at once, from all directions, Paul is surrounded by the media. In their herd instincts, the media moves as one animal, in a pack. |
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| There's a storm coming
The air was heavy. The weight of sweat, dryness of breath and feeling of clothing clinging to the body all lent themselves to help frame the event. This was the annual Cayce United Methodist barbecue picnic fund raising event.
As Mary and I left Clinton for the ten mile drive to Cayce, I noticed that the temperature reading on First Community Bank read 97 degrees at 4:30 p.m. That meant that the heat index was more like 105 degrees. No matter. We were on our way to a political happening. Rand Paul was going to appear at the First Methodist Church in Cayce for dinner on the grounds. See the full story ... Ivan Potter |

 Dr. Rand Paul at Cayce United Methodist Church |
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| Rand Paul in Cayce for Methodist Picnic
Candidate for US Senate Dr. Rand Paul showed up at the Cayce United Methodist Church BBQ Picnic not to make a speech or raise campaign money, but to meet regular people. And meet regular people he did...
...Standing beside the dinner line, Paul kept one eye on the media, taking questions. The other eye watched folks moving slowly past. Paul kept reaching past reporters to stick his hand out and say over and over, “Hi, I’m Rand Paul. I’m running for Jim Bunning’s seat.” See the full story ...
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 Farm subsidies bring in millions of dollars to farmers in Hickman County. |
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| Farm Subsidies
The Lexington Herald has a great analysis of what farm subsidies means to West Kentucky farmers and how the two Senatorial candidates will be affected by them. Click the link to read their story.
We went to www.farm.ewg.org and learned that corn subsidies in Hickman County, Kentucky totaled $35.3 million from 1995-2009. (*2009 is estimated )
To learn nifty facts about your home county and your farmer neighbors, go to http://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=21000 . See the full story ...
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America: a beacon of light with more work to do
Editor's Note: Brother Aaron Dowdy of the Clinton First United Methodist Church asked futurist Ivan Potter to share his thoughts on America, past, present and future on the 4th of July. Here is the transcript of what he said.
"...We have, since day one of our birth, been “the beacon of light" in a world clouded with darkness and the shadows of slavery, hunger, ignorance, war, and man’s general cruelty to man.
However, somewhere in the hope of the 1980s we, as Americans, lost our way.
No, let me be brutally honest.
My generation of baby boomers who voiced a new idea of change with our government’s polices in the 1960’s and 1970’s lost our way...." See the full story ... Ivan Potter |
There are no articles in this section. State to work to restore river basin
Kentucky Awarded $3 Million in the Mississippi River Basin Health Watersheds Initiative
Three projects will be active in restoring water quality and habitat in the Mississippi River Basin
The Kentucky Conservation Partnership will receive $3 million over a five-year period for three out of 76 projects awarded nationwide to improve the health of the Mississippi River Basin. The projects will take place in three areas of the state: Licking River, Lower Green and the Bayou de Chien/Mayfield Creek watersheds...
“This program will help agriculture producers in the watersheds implement conservation and management practices that avoid, control and trap nutrient runoff.
“The initiative is performance oriented, and measureable results are required to participate, including the reduction of environmental impacts through more efficient use of nutrients through crop and livestock production,” said (Len) Peters.
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