Texting Sucks (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
MADISON, Wis. — All Wisconsin drivers, not just teenagers, would be banned from sending text messages while driving under a bill that passed the state Senate on Tuesday. Lawmakers approved a bill 27-5 that would prohibit drivers from using a text …
The Bridge (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
... aren't illegally denying coverage and cherry-picking customers. To read the entire editorial click Lexington Herald-Leader.
Texting Sucks (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
LONDON — Michael Owen knows how tough it is trying to convince England coach Fabio Capello he’s good enough for the World Cup, especially as it might well be in vain. The former Liverpool, Real Madrid and Newcastle striker has fought back from …
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
LEXINGTON - A grand jury has indicted the former executive director of Lexington's Blue Grass Airport and three of his managers.
vere loqui (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Well, the health nannies are at it again. Reporter Mary Meehan at the Lexington Herald-Leader helps pass on junk science on the issue of smoking bans in today's story on a new report from the University of California, San Francisco's Institute of Medicine: A major report confirms what health officials long have believed: Bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and other gathering spots —...
vere loqui (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
My piece, "Bellydancing Toward Gomorrah" appeared in today's Lexington Herald-Leader . Of course, the headline writer (never trust such people) completely blew the headline, putting "Bellydancing to Gomorrah," which completely loses the cultural allusion to Robert Bork's "Slouching Toward Gomorrah," which itself was an allusion to W. B. Yeats expression,...
The Bridge (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
... of Amanda Ross, a politically connected woman who was gunned down in the gated parking lot of her Lexington townhouse, has caught the attention of a legislature that is generally more comfortable ignoring violence against women. Read more: The Lexington Herald-Leader
Texting Sucks (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — A Kentucky high school class is taking a hands-on approach to learning about the legislative process by becoming advocates for a bill that would ban texting while driving. The strategy by Leslie McCurry’s law and justice class …
The Bridge (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
... compromise the quality of education and encourage new faculty to avoid controversy. Read more: The Lexington Herald-Leader
The Bridge (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
By Jennifer Hewlett—Lexington Herald-Leader Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway's office says it's inappropriate for that office to comment on the legality of a proposed settlement between the Blue Grass Airport board and former airport executive director Michael Gobb. The attorney...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
LEXINGTON - Volunteers who want to translate for foreign visitors who come to the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games next year will first have to take a test.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Kentucky Association of Counties insurance group has agreed to stop paying for most meals, trips or gifts for county officials, the organization said.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Kentucky's low-income AIDS patients face the longest waiting list in the country for a government program that offers free or low-cost drugs to fight the disease.Kentucky has more than 1,200 people enrolled in its program for low-income HIV and AIDS patients. But the Lexington Herald-Leader reports nearly 100 patients are on a waiting list that started in June for the Kentucky AIDS Drug...
vere loqui (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Well it appears that the Whos in Whoville are not taking the theft of their Christmas Tree lying down this time. The Associated Press story on the Beshear administration's "Holiday Tree" has gone viral: State Stories: Christmas jeer: Ky. 'holiday tree' angers critics , Associated Press Christmas Jeer: 'Holiday Tree' angers critics , Lexington Herald-Leader Beshear's Holiday...
Strategies for Sustainability (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
What's in a name? At the University of Kentucky, a dorm renovation funded by a gift with some strings is raising controversy. Donors from the coal industry are putting up $7 million and insisting that the dorm for basketball players include "coal" in its name. Ironically, as this article from the Lexington Herald-Leader points out, the renovation will earn the building LEED...
