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25 Years Ago: April 4, 2013
April 4, 1988 Patrick Reynolds, soon to be 3 years old, and 7-month-old cousin David Jeramy Goolman, both whom suffer from cystic fibrosis, will be on hand for the annual Clark County Cystic Fibrosis Walkathon held at the George Rogers Clark High...
Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Elizabeth Byrd
Elizabeth “Maxine” Byrd, 84, wife of Arza M. Byrd for 65 and a half years, went to be with her Lord and Savior on March 20 at the Hospice Care Center. She was a member of Bethel Christian Church. She was born March 14, 1929, to the late... -
NCAA Tournament: Louisville feeling at home at Rupp
ktaylor@winchestersun.comLEXINGTON — Kentucky won’t play its next game here at Rupp Arena until next year, but for now, Louisville has settled in as a temporary tenant. The Cardinals, the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and the team to beat in the...Tags: Peyton Siva, Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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Jessamine County to make traffic school available soon
brossi@jessaminejournal.comDealing with minor traffic offenses will not longer be major hassle since the county has struck an agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Division of Drivers License. The Jessamine County Fiscal Court signed an agreement with the state...Tags: Government, Civil and Public Service, Career and Workplace, AFLAC Inc., Labor Disputes
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Jessamine County celebrates black history
lbutler@jessaminejournal.comThe auditorium at East Jessamine High School usually sits quiet and empty on the weekends when school’s not in session. But the room was anything but quiet and certainly not empty last Saturday afternoon as residents of Jessamine County participated...Tags: Elections, African Americans, History, Human Interest, Minority Groups
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George Michael: Pretty blue in blue states
A recent article in the real estate section of MSN.com, written by Kurt Badenhausen of Forbes Magazine, was titled “America’s Most Miserable Cities of 2013.” The article ranked American cities based on metrics that included violent...Tags: Justice System, Montgomery County (Maryland), Real Estate, Lawyers, Rudy Giuliani
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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the city's African-American voters...
Tags: Local Elections, Chicago Mayor, Cook County Board of Commissioners, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel
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Are you (fill in the blank) enough?
WASHINGTON -- Enough with this "enough" business. Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz -- the conservative Texas senator who happens to be of Hispanic descent. But...
Tags: Republican Party, Demographics, Minority Groups, Immigration, Ted Cruz
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford wins South Carolina House seat
WASHINGTON — Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor’s office tarred by an adultery scandal, he has completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election. Sanford defeated Democratic neophyte...Tags: Republican Party, Steve Israel, Government, Democratic Party, Regional Authority
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Race and crime in Baltimore
It's unfortunate when an everyday accident happens but it's sad when columnist Dan Rodricks and Michael Hanchard use it to play the race card ("Man sees race, indifference in experience with Baltimore police," April 13). First, if as Michael Hanchard...
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What election?
I was looking over the results of the various county and township elections across Chicagoland this morning. Robin Kelly won Jesse Jackson's old congressional seat; not really a surprise but the turnout in that district was 20 percent of the electorate. ...Tags: Elections, Politics
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'42' in the Windy City
Chicago Tribune reporterWhen Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers brought their historic roadshow to Chicago a few weeks into the 1947 season, a record crowd of 46,572 people crammed into Wrigley Field, and 20,000 more stood outside wishing they could get in. After the game,...Tags: St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Soldier Field, Labor Legislation, Baseball
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