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Former detention center director Ray Sabbatine is the leading candidate to become the interim director at the Fayette County Detention Center. Sabbatine, who was Sheriff Kathy WittÕs consultant on her recent study of the jail, said he will accept the position if it is offered to him. Sabbatine was in the detention centerÕs administration from 1976 to 2001 when he retired as director. Photo Provided

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:
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Ky. Voices: Unrooted in a value system, civilization would be at peril

Tea Party activist David Adams' essay on gun control and gay marriage seeks to create a new political coalition of Republican libertarian and Democratic social liberal secularists, both of which want freedom from governmental restraint and strictures.
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Ky. Voices: Frankfort did little to help state compete

No matter your personal affinity for redbirds or feral felines, after two straight years of national championship victories there's no denying that the Bluegrass State is capable of producing one heckuva competitive force on the basketball court.
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Cartoon to the editor: May 13 (John Barber)
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Ky. Voices: Roads are in decay, why build a new one?

Our nation's highway system is truly the envy of the world. It has enabled the United States to industrialize and allows our populace to travel freely to anywhere in the country.
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Ky. Voices: Tough diagnosis: hospital rankings

Patients trying to make health care decisions are inundated with advertising bragging about the many awards hospitals have won. In fact, there seem to be enough awards for every facility to be No. 1 at the same time. It's confusing and underscores the importance of comparing information from...
LARRY WEBSTER

Webster: Hurry, hurry, get your empty promises here

When the Addison's Snake Oil Medicine Show wagon comes to town, coal miners come a' skippin.' Nationally, there are 15 percent more skippin' coal miners with jobs under President Barack Obama than President George W. Bush, but that is skippin' for the Snake Oil man to do.
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Ky. Voices: Keep Municipal bonds tax exempt

Don't fix it, if it isn't broken. Recently, I was one of the first state treasurers in the nation to sign onto a letter from the National Association of State Treasurers urging members of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee to maintain the current tax exempt status for municipal bonds.