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July 15, 2002

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Commentary - Kentucky Dems Spending and Smearing; Churchill Downs Flea-Bitten; and Blame it on Big Business     by Theresa Fritz Camoriano     1.  Kentucky Dems Spending and Smearing -    The Kentucky legislature did not pass a budget, so Governor Patton is now trying to continue running the government without the benefit of a budget.  This puts him in murky waters, since the executive branch does not have the authority to spend money any way it chooses, without the legislature's approval... 

Traffic flow and air pollution     By George Baumler     Problems with air quality around the Louisville Metro region are blamed largely on automobile traffic.  The fact is that automobile traffic does account for a large share of air pollution.  A huge amount of that pollution is caused by vehicles unnecessarily being stalled in traffic due to poorly designed traffic arteries or being forced to stop-and-go behind some lumbering hulk of a public transit bus as it makes its scheduled stops. 

Take Back Kentucky Chooses Senator Leeper as Legislator Of The Year     By Norm Davis      Take Back Kentucky has selected Kentucky Senator Robert J. Leeper to receive the “Legislator Of The Year 2002” award for his outstanding service and availability to his constituents.

Debate on education vouchers.      The following exchange on education vouchers and education tax credits was very interesting, so we are sharing it with you.  The italics are one person's statements, and plain text shows the responses to those statements:

What is Greed?     by Pat Pending     These days, we hear a lot about greed.  We all seem to know that it is a bad thing, but what exactly is greed, and what, if anything, should be done about it?

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The will of men is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided. Men are
seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.
Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence. It does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, until each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.--
Alexis de Tocqueville
 

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