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House gives final passage to fiscal cliff bill
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that...Tags: Parties and Movements, Employment Opportunities, Government Health Care, Republican Party, Harry Reid
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Democratic society dying in the U.S.
The French philosopher Alexis de Toqueville (1805-1859) had many interesting things to say about democracy. One of the most noteworthy being: “The American people will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the people with the...Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Lobbying, Mammogram, Politics, Fiscal Cliff
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Danville and Boyle schools worry about fiscal cliff
You have probably heard a great deal about the looming fiscal cliff facing our nation, but we want to bring the debate closer to home by sharing what that cliff means for our local schools and the future of the children and youth of our community. These...Tags: Students, Politics, Money and Monetary Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Health and Safety at School
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Congress should cut its own perks
As members of Congress are hurrying up and waiting to figure out how to deal with the upcoming “fiscal cliff,” I find it interesting that the body that complains about too many people being on the dole or lazy Americans doing nothing to lift...Tags: 401K, Politics, Fiscal Cliff
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Obama only wants his way or no way
A few weeks before the election, I stated that we should be careful what we vote for, we might get it. Here is what we got — a president who would be king. He refuses to compromise on anything, he wants Congress to give up its constitutional...Tags: Frank Sinatra
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Newtown plans burials as school's future debated
Associated PressNEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - A grieving Connecticut town braced itself Monday to bury the first two of the 20 small victims of an elementary school gunman and debated when classes could resume — and where, given the carnage in the building and the...Tags: Danbury, Talk Shows (genre), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Dannel P. Malloy , Western Connecticut State University
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More concerned with poverty than 'cliff'
I’m so sick of hearing Republicans and Democrats in Congress argue about taxes and this “fiscal cliff” garbage. I’m fed up to the gills with a divided government, where absolutely nothing gets done for the people. No one talks...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Social Issues, Poverty, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Election Day in full swing in Jessamine County
Thousands of Jessamine County residents got an early start to voting Tuesday morning as polls opened up at 6 a.m. Voting will continue until 6 p.m. Depending on where you live in Jessamine County, residents will be voting locally for state representative,...
Tags: Voting, Elections, Politics, Local Elections
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GUEST COLUMN: Assessing the 2012 presidential candidates
Contributing WriterMitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president, and the Democratic incumbent, Barack Obama, have accused one another of being “out of touch.” Romney, who has a fortune of some $250 million, is deemed too rich to have any concept of...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Parties and Movements, Justice System, Republican Party, Mitt Romney
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Who knows how to fix the U.S. economy?
With a national debt of more than $14.8 trillion that is increasing by a trillion and a half per year, each one of the nation’s official residents of more than 300 million is on the hook for some $49,000. The debt burden for individual taxpayers...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Financial and Business Services, Government Health Care, Private Health Care, Finance
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Witt: Congress not interested in compromise
By the time you read this, Congress may have overcome its impasse regarding the debt ceiling (he said, laughing uncontrollably).
Realistically, since the drop-dead date for raising the debt ceiling is apparently Aug. 2, it is extremely unlikely that...Tags: Parties and Movements, Elections, Politics, Tea Party Movement, Republican Party
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Community fixture will be dearly missed
Journal managing editorOne of the first people I met when I moved to Nicholasville in December 2005 turned out to be one of Jessamine County’s biggest cheerleaders in my mind. I learned much about the county I now call home over the years through former Jessamine...Tags: Transportation, Travel, Douglas MacArthur, Human Interest
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