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Centre commencement to be streamed live
Centre CollegeCentre College’s 189th commencement will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday in Newlin Hall of the Norton Center for the Arts. The 2013 graduation exercises will begin with the baccalaureate ceremony, which also will take place in Newlin Hall at 11 a.m....Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Department of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Colleges and Universities, Arts
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Military's brass should feel crunch
The Winchester SunSequestration. It’s an ugly word made even more odious by recent actions of our elected Congressmen (and Congresswomen), most of whom seem to lose all sense of propriety when they reach Foggy Bottom. The original idea of sequestration, agreed to...Tags: U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011, Air Transportation Industry, Layoffs and Downsizing, Politics
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Danville native to receive unusual Army badge
kpeek@amnews.comWhen Danville native Max Gideon enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating from Boyle County High School in 2004, he never anticipated he would one day hold the second least awarded badge in the army, following only after the astronaut badge. On Friday,...Tags: Washington, DC, Armed Forces, U.S. Army, Travel, Human Interest
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Federal budget is "March Madness"
Contributing ColumnistCongressional leaders have not passed a federal budget in four years and have continued to kick the can down the road with continuing resolutions rather than solve America’s spending and debt problems. If major corporations operated in that manner,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Military, Rand Paul, Wars and Interventions
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The great deficit debate: looking for money in all the wrong places
Contributing ColumnistFor the last two years we’ve heard the same mantra from the GOP and its mouthpiece, FOX News: “We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.” It’s usually said with solemnity and sometimes a hint of compassion, as if the...Tags: Business, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Norway, Finland, Gross Domestic Product
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Debate moderator Raddatz to return for Centre's commencement
Martha Raddatz, ABC News Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent and moderator of the 2012 Vice Presidential Debate at Centre, will be the featured speaker at Centre’s 190th Commencement Ceremony on May 19. Raddatz has held her current role at ABC...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, NPR, Radio, White House, Joe Biden
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25 Years Ago: Saturday, July 21, 2012
July 21, 1962 David Cole Winburn and Mary Pearson Desmond will receive bachelor of science degrees at the summer commencement of Eastern Kentucky State College on Aug. 2 in the outdoor amphitheater. Miss Nettie Bean and brother, John Bean, have moved...
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50 Years Ago in Clark County
July 28, 1962 The Clark County Board of Education voted Friday night to ask the state highway department to widen the Boonesboro Road in front of the new George Rogers Clark High School. The board is seeking to have the road widened to the end of the...
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Military at another critical crossroads
A budget deal is in the works to trim defense spending by half a trillion dollars over a 10 year period, and the Defense Department has already identified many of the aspects of its spending to accomplish that goal. If Congress cannot agree on the...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War I (1914-1918), Defense, U.S. Army, Germany
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From Our Files: July 24
1911The Danville Civic League surely will take up the matter of completely ridding Danville of flies and mosquitoes. Many other towns already have declared war on flies and absolutely prohibit their existence in the community. The state Board of Health...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Fires, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Arts
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McNay: Payday lenders are legalized loan sharks
I grew up in a Northern Kentucky town that was a haven for organized crime. My father was a bookie and professional gambler who worked in several of the area’s “hot spots.”
In a town full of hustlers, prostitutes and gamblers, the...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, U.S. Military, Ohio River, Kentucky, Politics
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Congressional women target military assault
A bipartisan group of women serving on the Senate and House Armed Services committees, including Indiana's 2nd District Rep. Jackie Walorski, is to be congratulated for exercising historic clout to battle sexual assault in the U.S. armed services....Tags: Prosecution, Sexual Assault, Fort Hood (military base), Jackie Walorski, Politics
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