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Open discussion on new city hall
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An Urban County Council committee took a huge step Tuesday toward assuring that the public's business is done in public. The full council should follow suit.

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Good, bad, ugly on health care
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The good news: Fewer Americans were uninsured last year than the year before.
Milestone for horse racing
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It would have been better if Kentucky had been the first state to ban steroids in horse racing, but the Kentucky Racing Commission still deserves credit for adopting a steroid ban Monday.
Expand Keeneland; don't change it
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No one mentioned performance-enhancing drugs Monday evening at Keeneland's public meeting to hear comments on a proposed master plan. But there was certainly a cry to maintain authenticity and integrity in Thoroughbred horse racing.
Zero tolerance at Transportation

One line in Gilbert Newman's resignation letter gives insight into why he lost his job last week.
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Undermining investigations
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With some to-do, U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao announced an independent review of the federal mine safety agency's actions before and after a Utah mine disaster last year.
Chairman will be missed
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It says a lot about Larry Conner's commitment to education that, at 58, he's decided to take a job as human-resource officer at a troubled school district in Georgia.
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Sen. Barack Obama has to do three things with this convention, which arguably might be one too many items on his agenda. One, he needs to fill in the gaps of his biography for the largest audience of voters who haven't yet tuned into the race. Two, he needs to take on Sen. John McCain more forcefully; there's no doubt the Republicans will use their St. Paul airtime to go after Obama — big time. Obama chief strategist David Axelrod has made it clear he thought Sen. John Kerry made a mistake four years ago by ignoring President Bush. And three, Obama needs to unify the party. All three agenda items are doable by themselves, but can all three be done in a four-day period? It's a big challenge.
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Scrutiny still needed on CentrePointe

Selling is about believing.
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Secret donors no more

It’s still a mystery why a public university fought so long, hard and expensively to maintain a secret donors list.
Keep ATVs in their place
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If Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo wants to promote Kentucky as a destination for adventure tourism, he should make clear that ATVs don’t belong in wildlife areas, nature preserves or parks.
Close loophole in smoking ban
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Lexington would rise up in open rebellion against a return to smoking in restaurants and other public spaces.
Turn on the GPS
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It costs taxpayers a lot of money to keep people who commit crimes behind bars, and almost all of them get out eventually.
Parasitic growth risk to farm fund
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Nitpicking accountability was an early complaint about the state agency that disburses public money for agricultural ventures.
Burgoo: Something to stew over
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Unfolding events often cast a new light on statements or promises that came before.
Game day patrols long overdue
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No one wants to look out the window from home and see a couch aflame on the street surrounded by a bevy of boisterous drunks, or wake up on Sunday morning to streets littered with trash.
Wise investment
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Ripples from the sub-prime borrowing binge are feeling more like a tidal wave. It's even threatening to swamp students trying to finance a college education.
From chamber's lips to legislature's ear

What if all the 13-year-olds in Kentucky knew that they would be able to afford to go to college?
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Moving ahead on equine drug ban

There has long been a strange split personality at work in Kentucky horse racing.

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