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Radon: How serious is the threat?
jking@amnews.comThe sun is shining, the birds are singing and there’s not a cloud in the sky. It’s a good day to dust off the boom box and go outside to pull a few weeds and just enjoy being alive except ... the radio keeps asking me if my home has radon....Tags: Health Organizations, Environmental Issues, Environmental Cleanup, Lungs and Airways, Environmental Politics
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Obituary: Travis Douglas
LEBANON — Lt. Travis M. Douglas USN, 31, of Newmarket, N.H., was a passenger and killed in a car accident Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, in Hampton, N.H. Born May 22, 1979, in Louisville, he was a 1997 graduate of Scott County High School. In June of...Tags: U.S. Navy, Obituaries
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The Solyndra scandal was inevitable
Contributing ColumnistIn January, I wrote an article on the government’s role in supporting basic science, invention and innovation. In the opening paragraph of that article I said: “The Obama administration claims the government can ‘create jobs’...Tags: Corporate Crime, White House, Political Corruption, Elections, Politics
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We need to learn from Japan's quake
My heart goes out to the people of Japan. In this, the highest time of need that nation has seen since World War II, we should all keep them in our prayers. I can’t help but to wonder how our nation would do under the pressure the people of Japan...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, World War II (1939-1945), Kentucky, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Drill American oil and burn Kentucky coal
Guest columnistEnvironmental fanatics are ducking for cover. They’re undone by catastrophic mishaps; one now all too real, another of great potential. Each will blow the cover off their progressive agenda. Pseudo-science was once poised to bankrupt Kentucky coal....Tags: Science and Technology, Migraine, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Kentucky, California
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Budny graduates Navy training course
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Marco Budny of Nicholasville recently completed Naval Nuclear Power Training Pipeline.
During the course with Nuclear Power Training Unit, Ballston Spa, N.Y., Budny received instruction about nuclear theory, chemistry,...Tags: Personal Service, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces
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Basic science, invention, innovation
Guest columnistThe Obama administration claims the government can “create jobs” through technology, particularly green technology. The president argues that the technology is there, and all it needs is a “nudge” from the government. He does not...Tags: Political Corruption, Renewable Energy, Elections, Science and Technology, Politics
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Waters: Cloud of fear mongering mushrooms after tsunami
“After whatever disaster befalls us, being intelligent humans, we can almost always learn from it and do better in the future,” said physicist Steven C. Barrowes, Ph.D., of Radcliff.
The purveyors of fear among us should heed that advice when...Tags: Mushrooms, James Joyce, Science and Technology, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Kentucky
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43-day shutdown ends at Palisades
COVERT, Mich. – After a 43-day shutdown, the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwest Michigan went back on line Monday. Palisades was shut down in early May after dozens of gallons of radioactive water leaked from the plant into Lake Michigan....
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Environmentalists' suit: National Park Service cut public out of Delaware Water Gap power line review
Federal officials discussed a $66 million payment to offset the effects of building a new electric transmission line through Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area without disclosing the plan to the public, environmental groups opposing the project...Tags: Roseland, Travel, National Parks, Ken Salazar, Public Service Electric & Gas Company
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The Inconvenient Nukes
Change of SubjectMichael Specter writes in the New Yorker: I had not altered my position on nuclear power until last week, when I watched Robert Stone’s new documentary, “Pandora’s Promise.” The film follows several former dedicated opponents as... -
Victim's family refuses to give up on 30-year-old cold-case homicide
The detectives chased leads from north suburban Antioch to the Bimini islands and thought they had solved their case. But the mound of circumstantial evidence was never enough to make an arrest in the slaying of Brent Westermann, whose body was found...
Tags: Lake County Sheriff's Office, Crime, Law and Justice, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Antioch (Lake, Illinois), Fort Lauderdale
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