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Friday, Oct. 09, 2009

Several states want a share of old war bonds

October 9, 2009

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• The Washington Post reports that a half-dozen state governments have filed a lawsuit against the federal government to recover $16.7 billion worth of bond certificates from World War II war bonds. The states, including Kentucky, say they have laws that empower them to take whatever war bond money goes unclaimed. The Treasury Department disagrees.
  

• The 2009 edition of  The Commonwealth Fund's State Scorecard on Health System Performance was released Thursday. The report ranks 38 indicators a state's health care system on access, quality, costs, and health outcomes. Overall, Kentucky ranked 45th, down from 43rd in 2007.
  

• Elk & Bison Prairie at Land Between the Lakes is home to 31 elk, including eight bulls, 16 cows and seven calves, and 51 bison. Right now, as elk prepare for mating season. visitors to the park can hear their mating calls, a "cross between a grunt and a squeal." The Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle reports that visitors to the prairie enclosure have the best chance of hearing bulls' bugle late in the afternoon.
  

• On Wednesday, about 200 people turned out to protest the Obama administration's efforts to more closely examine 79 pending permits for mountaintop removal coal mining, according to the Charleston Gazette. Protesters also complained about pending legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions and more generally about "big government" interfering with the coal industry and with their way of life. The mining permits are from mines in Kentucky, as well as West Virginia, Tennessee and Ohio.
  

• A teacher in Texas has been using music to teach her elementary students science. The Dallas Morning News reports on her success: A professor at Long Island University and co-author of a recent study on music in the classroom.explains why this works: Students retain teachings in song through a process called dual encoding, he said. The information is easier to retrieve in both short- and long-term memory because it's lodged in various areas of the brain, not just one spot.