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Al Smith: Five years in, hope in Kentucky's battles with addiction, tooth decay

For Kentuckians hammered with distressing reports on the state's poor health conditions, there was a scattering of good news this past week that followed Gov. Steve Beshear's decision to expand the Medicaid program to provide coverage to 300,000...

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Andy Barr: Call for health study ignores over-regulation

The April 25 editorial reflects this newspaper's one-sided perspective regarding one of our commonwealth's vital industries.
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Mitch McConnell: Editorial wrong to dismiss my plan to create jobs

Your latest editorial screed claiming that the legislation I recently announced to beat back the Environmental Protection Agency's war on coal, the Coal Jobs Protection Act, will be "no help" to Eastern Kentucky proves once again just how out of touch the Herald-Leader is with its readers and the...
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Ky. Voices: EPA stalling on mine permits, hurting jobs

As president of the Kentucky Coal Association, I want to respond to your recent editorial in which you condemned Sen. Mitch McConnell for his effort to bring legislative reform to the Obama administration's Clean Water Act permit program.
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Ky. Voices: City must invest in affordable housing

The May 9 Herald-Leader editorial indicates that a "citywide coordinated approach to helping people with limited resources find a safe place to live" will be materially enhanced by Mayor Jim Gray's decision to request funding in the city budget for "an office to coordinate the city's affordable ...
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Ky. Voices: Polio still a scourge in the world

The United States experienced its last case of polio in 1979. In the 34 years since that time, a lot of things have gone by the wayside: cassette players, the Berlin wall and shoulder pads, to name a few.
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Ky. Voices: Celebrate cultural gifts of gay geniuses

President Bill Clinton made a comment that has stuck in my head for years: "Look beyond the stereotypes that blind us. We need each other. All of us — we need each other. We don't have a person to waste."
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Ky. Voices: Stop wasting time and money prosecuting the intoxicated

Kentucky spends millions of dollars each year to arrest, detain, adjudicate and punish people for being intoxicated in public.
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Ky. Voices: Appalachians focused on growing hope, jobs

Hope is the catalyst for success in life. Loss of hope is devastating at all ages. Gallup discovered in its polling in 2010 that children become school dropouts when they lose hope to graduate.
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Ky. Voices: We make it hard for immigrants to be citizens

Far too often, foreign-born residents of the United States have become pawns in a political game of chess.
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For Soviet Union, our WWII ally, war's pains still fresh

Little noted in U.S. media, Secretary of State John Kerry, meeting last week in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, referenced World War II when identifying opportunities for cooperation: