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  • Kentucky's wasted energy

    We've got to change our megawatt-wasting ways. Kentucky's energy-efficiency problem, experts say, is that low electrical rates have lulled us into lackadaisical light-switch-flipping.

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NEW YORK — Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 77.

A caption on page A1 of Wednesday's Herald-Leader incorrectly identified a photograph of a Pike County strip mine area as having been reclaimed.

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