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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:42:57 EST</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[More cities set smoke-free examples for legislature]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/08/2060077/more-cities-set-smoke-free-examples.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:40 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Manchester and Somerset got 2012 off to a great start by going smoke free.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers: Back off and let pension task force work]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/08/2060076/lawmakers-back-off-and-let-pension.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:40 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A task force appointed four months ago by Mayor Jim Gray has been searching for ways to make sure Lexington's police and firefighters can count on a secure retirement without breaking the city.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wise investment in principal training]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/07/2058707/wise-investment-in-principal-training.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:02 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the businesses that are putting some cash behind their talk on education.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Allow more DNA testing]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/07/2058706/allow-more-dna-testing.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:01 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It's telling that the prosecutor who oversees more criminal cases than anyone in Kentucky recently testified in favor of expanding the availability of post-conviction DNA testing.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Arena plan: great vision of downtown's future]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/05/2056634/arena-plan-great-vision-of-downtowns.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:56 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Task force. The very term invites rolled eyes and low expectations. When public officials appoint them, it often signals they just want to kick a problem down the road.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Raise dropout age statewide; no local option]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/04/2055389/raise-dropout-age-statewide-no.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:41 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The good news is legislation to combat Kentucky's dropout problem is moving in the Senate. The bad news is it's local option.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Openness urgent in gambling push]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/03/2054103/openness-urgent-in-gambling-push.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:03 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here's a news flash for Gov. Steve Beshear: The election's over, you won.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Take Boone Creek proposal to planning commission]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/02/2052537/take-boone-creek-proposal-to-planning.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:45 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It was a long, tough slog but the Board of Adjustment did the right thing Friday when it turned down a proposal for a zip line canopy tour and other activities on Boone Creek in southern Fayette County.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Right to delay candidate filing deadlines]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/02/2052536/right-to-delay-candidate-filing.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:45 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[General Assembly sessions convene each year on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, but the real work of making new laws doesn't begin until early February.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Raise dropout age to 18]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/01/2051136/raise-dropout-age-to-18.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:38 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A few years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned a study called "The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts."]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[For Beshear, will coal money drown out Lynch?]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/31/2049750/for-beshear-will-coal-money-drown.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:38 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Almost half the residents of the historic Harlan County town of Lynch are poor, and their per capita income of $11,206 is half that of Kentucky as a whole.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Beshear right to invest in drug treatment, more social workers]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/29/2047702/beshear-right-to-invest-in-drug.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:48 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The recurring theme of the upcoming state budget is cut, cut and cut some more. But Gov. Steve Beshear also is proposing some modest but strategic increases in spending on human needs that lawmakers should approve:]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Give mobile food trucks a try]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/27/2045219/give-mobile-food-trucks-a-try.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:59 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Often things that seem like they should be simple aren't. Mobile food sales is a good example. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Other voices: State funding for UPike]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/26/2043839/state-funding-for-upike.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:49 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago we voiced our support for the University of Pikeville becoming a state university. Something like this needs to happen in order to lower tuition costs for Eastern Kentucky college students and establish the region's first four-year state college. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Burgoo: Jan. 26]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/26/2043837/burgoo-something-to-stew-over.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:47 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Voters ushered her into office. Now, a bullet has prematurely pushed her out. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona resigned from Congress this week after five years in the House and more than a year after a gunman killed six people and injured a dozen others. Slowed by speech and movement impairments after being shot in the head, Giffords pinned her decision on her continuing recovery and desire to "do what is best for Arizona." Doing what she thought best for her state and country hallmarked her service in the House. She earned a reputation as a centrist who rebuffed partisanship and reached across the aisle.  A practice that a departing Giffords urged Congress to emulate: "We can do so much more by working together," she said. While in office, Giffords sponsored successful legislation to beef up border security. She became a forceful advocate for veterans and military service members. And she was perhaps Congress' brightest proponent on solar energy. A bullet cut short her tenure. Not her dedication. She sees her resignation as a ta-ta for now    not a farewell from public service. That Tombstone   "the town too tough to die"   fell within her district always gave Giffords gratification. Fitting, too, for an American who, having won her fight to survive, is determined to serve again.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Return voting rights to ex-felons]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/26/2043683/return-voting-rights-to-ex-felons.html</link>
    <guid>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/26/2043683/return-voting-rights-to-ex-felons.html</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:49 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Kentucky House of Representatives is once again acting favorably on a proposal (HB 70) by Rep. Jesse Crenshaw, D-Lexington, to amend the state constitution to automatically restore voting rights to non-violent felons who have paid their assigned debt to society.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Time to overhaul redistricting]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/25/2042130/time-to-overhaul-redistricting.html</link>
    <guid>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/25/2042130/time-to-overhaul-redistricting.html</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:39 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This year's bloody redistricting has become a unifying force, after all. Republicans and Democrats alike are expressing outrage and revulsion at the arrogantly political decisions and the secretive way they were reached.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stop labeling children criminals]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/24/2040505/stop-labeling-children-criminals.html</link>
    <guid>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/24/2040505/stop-labeling-children-criminals.html</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:41 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We agree with House Speaker Greg Stumbo that illegal activities should not be decriminalized just because they are committed by juveniles.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Louisville stadium shows limits of TIF funding]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/24/2040504/louisville-stadium-shows-limits.html</link>
    <guid>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/24/2040504/louisville-stadium-shows-limits.html</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:41 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Fresh from Louisville comes a cautionary tale for those working on a financing plan for redoing Rupp Arena and creating an Arena, Arts and Entertainment District in downtown Lexington.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[State now bearing cost of poor tax policy]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/22/2038357/state-now-bearing-cost-of-poor.html</link>
    <guid>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/22/2038357/state-now-bearing-cost-of-poor.html</guid>
    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:46 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[With interest rates at historic lows, this is an opportune time for universities to tackle a backlog of maintenance and building needs.]]></description>
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