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KY Historic Preservation Review Board to Consider Nine National Register Nominations Tuesday

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The Kentucky Historic Preservation Review Board will consider nominations of nine sites for listing in the National Register of Historic Places during its next meeting at 10 a.m. (EDT) Tuesday, May 11 at the Washington County Extension Office, 211 Progress Avenue, Springfield. Properties to be considered are located in Bath, Fayette, Jefferson, Morgan, Nelson, Warren [...]

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GOP Candidates for Congress Hope to End Earmarks

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Tired of yelling at their televisions during the news, four men from Central Kentucky each hope to join Congress to block what they see as President Barack Obama's socialist, ruinously expensive agenda. To get there they must face one another and two much-better-funded rivals in the May 18 Republican primary for the 6th Congressional District. [...]

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Demirci's Images Can Touch the Soul

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 16, 2010) – Soldiers crouched in an Iraqi bunker, a weeping child in Darfur, sheet-swaddled bodies lining the streets after a Pakistani earthquake … all images of "The World Through My Lens" by award-winning photojournalist Mehmet Demirci.   A New York-based photojournalist, Demirci will share his photos from Iraq, Pakistan, Darfur, Haiti [...]

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Recovery on the Skids

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WASHINGTON The U.S. economy grew at a slower pace during the second quarter of this year than first estimated, the government reported Friday, another indication that the recovery is losing steam and one that prompted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to pledge new action if the economy deteriorates further. Although the Commerce Department's first estimate [...]

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Housing May Sabotage an Economic Recovery

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WASHINGTON Housing led the United States out of seven of the past eight recessions. This time, it might kill the recovery. Home sales collapsed after a federal tax credit for buyers expired in April. Since then, the manufacturing-led expansion, which began in the second half of 2009, has been waning, with jobless claims rising and [...]

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Nearly Half Leave Mortgage-Relief Program

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WASHINGTON Nearly half of the homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration's flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out. A new report issued Friday by the Treasury Department said that approximately 630,000 people who had tried to get their monthly mortgage payments lowered through the effort have been cut loose through July. That's about 48 percent [...]

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Kentucky Ranks 1st in Fatal Child Abuse

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Kentucky had the highest rate of child deaths from abuse and neglect in the United States during 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by a national child advocacy group. Every Child Matters Education Fund, a non-profit group in Washington, D.C., reported that 41 Kentucky children died from abuse and neglect in 2007 — a [...]

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Transportation Cabinet to Upgrade Bluegrass Parkway Guardrail

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ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (Aug. 13, 2010) — The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has awarded a $1.36 million contract to upgrade guardrail along a 27-mile stretch of the Martha Layne Collins Bluegrass Parkway in Nelson and Washington counties. View full Kentucky post at: Kentucky.gov News Center Headlines Tags: Ky., Bluegrass Parkway, kentucky transportation cabinet, Nelson, Martha Layne, Kentucky

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Jobless Rate Holds at 9.5%

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WASHINGTON Private employers added jobs at an anemic pace in July and the unemployment rate stood unchanged at 9.5 percent, the government reported Friday. Private-sector employers added 71,000 jobs in July, well below the 100,000 or more expected by mainstream forecasters. As a whole, the economy lost 131,000 jobs for the month as temporary Census [...]

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Despite Close Call, Barnhart Scales Mount Rainier for Charity, Self

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Measuring at about 12,300 feet above sea level, Disappointment Cleaver on the 14,411-foot Mount Rainier has lived up to its morale-breaking name over the years. As the final mark on a brutal journey up the Cascade Range peak, one of the tallest mountains in the United States, the treacherous knife-edge ridge earned its name because [...]

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