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  • 570. President Obama's War

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    "George W. Bush has led our country into war, into debt, and into isolation with the rest of the planet."

    Last year, on the night before the election of President Obama, I wrote a lenghty entry covering all my November presidential ballots since 1980. Most of them were cast [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:19pm EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • 569. Who will be the 60,000th visitor to the site?

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    Sometime today or tomorrow, we will cross another of those thresholds, this one the 60,000th visitor. I'm prepared with some rainbow sherbet and ginger ale to celebrate. I don't really have a post today - just noticed the numbers. So, if you're hanging around here' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:34am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • 568. Happy Day After - that sounds better than Black Friday

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    Today is the Friday that the snow flurries were supposed to sweep into town. Didn't happen. In fact, although it is about 36 degrees right now, it is supposed to get up to 50 before the day is through.

    But, yesterday, for a few fleeting moments, I did' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:41pm EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • 567. Snow

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    Longtime readers of the blog - all six of you - are probably aware that falling snow has a tendency to get me all excited. So far this year that hasn't happened. We've usually had some of the white stuff at least blowing around here and there by this date [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:25am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • Tom Owen Cultural Studies and Greyhound Cultural Studies

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    My friend and fellow historian Dr. Tom Owen is offering the following class for learning a lot about a lot of Louisville culture in a few short hours. Tom, of course, is Louisville's teller of hisotry. He is having a special show this Sunday, Novbember 22 at the Clifton Center [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:07am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • More from San Antonio

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    The RiverWalk is so cool. Walked quite a bit of it late last night with a group of friends. Earlier we had been to dinner at Buchanon's Steak House, ranked the 2nd Best Steak House in Texas. Thinks Morton's on steroids. To my knowledge we don't have anything like Buchanon's [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:00am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • Live From San Antonio

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    I'm just checking in. I'll be posting more later. I'm staying the Menger Hotel which is literally next door to the Alamo. Kinda neat. The hotel itself is of an historic nature. In the past it has hosted Robert E. Lee, Theodore Roosevelt,' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:32am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • Veterans Day in America

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    Today is Veterans Day, a day we set aside for the honor and memory of those women and men who devoted a part of their lives, and in many cases their very lives, in service to our country. I was raised by one of those [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:18am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • 562. Weather, Wendell, and Wander

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    Weather

    Most of my six faithful readers live somewhere in the Ohio River Valley and for them my comments on the recent weather will not be news. But for the rest of you, across the country and around the world, it should be noted as newsworthy that the high [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:58am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • 561. Healthcare Voters along MP606

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    I can't honestly say that when I voted last year for Barack Obama that healthcare was one of the overriding reasons. I'm sure it was one of the reasons, but not a the top of the list. Getting us out of Iraq was probably at the top. Or maybe it [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:49pm EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • 560. In The News

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    For one thing, I was in the news, although if I had my 'druthers, I would not have been. Yesterday's edition of LEO carried a story, which had at least one mistake I've asked the writer to correct, concerning Ken Herndon's filing to close his lawsuit (while allowing the opportunity [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:58am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • Surprise Birthday

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    November 1st is my father's birthday - his 70th in a series. The entry title is a bit of dark humor. Attaining the age of 70 (and entering his 71st year) has been something of a struggle for my dad, a surprise of sorts that he wasn't anticipating. While for [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:28am EST
    by Jeff Noble

  • 558. Weekend Wrapup

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    I was busy the entire weekend. Covered a lot of ground in many different places and a few different ways.

    The busy weekend started with my friend Morgan Ransdell at Actors Theater on Main Street in downtown Louisville. It was a production of William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 7:06am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 557. Out of sorts

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    That last few days have been not quite but almost difficult because of a rift between me and a friend of very long standing. We've disagreed on something very important to both of us. Like all things, this too shall pass. In the meantime, I've sought diversions where they may [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 10:18pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 556. Barnyard Affair

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    My guess is General Wesley Clark has spoken in lots of different places in his various careers - military man, politician, venture capitalist. Last night he addressed the Kentucky Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner crowd from a barn, shown in the picture. Not just any barn,' [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 555. Its that time of year

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    I should probably write about KY555 on this 555th entry. I do not know how many triple-same-digit numbered highways we have in Kentucky. I can place KY111 in the east between Owingsville and Flemingsburg. I can't place a KY222 which in theory would be somewhere near KY22. Nor can I' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 7:28am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 554. Not quite the golden triangle

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    Today was supposed to be spent in southwestern Jefferson County at a community festival helping the candidate I am supporting for Mayor of Louisville-Jefferson County Metro in next year's Democratic Primary. But Mother Nature changed my plans, flooding the festival grounds with yesterday's rains causing the event organizers to cancel [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 7:09pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 553. Finish the series: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, _________________

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    The series in the title names the three sitting United States presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, something I never imagined writing about here along the Left Bank of the Ohio River near Milepost 606. But here we are.

    In my email inbox today [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 7:51pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 552. Gardening Season Comes To An End

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    Earlier this year in February, I plotted out how I would put in a garden in my little inner-city plot of land. In front of the house, I've got about a 26 foot square area with a walkway down the middle constituting my front yard. My side yard is a' [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 551. Invitation to John Boehner

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    Ok, admittedly, I'm copying from several other people. I think if you admit to copying up front, it is just like footnoting on a college paper. I think.

    Congressman John Boehner stated on Capitol Hill that he knew of no one in the Republic' [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 7:05am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 550. Holy Day/Holy Space

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    Reader Beware - this is a rambling religious entry.

    Some people have favorite days of the year, days such as their birthdays or anniversaries; others have favorite holy days, such as Christmas or Hallowe'en, which has its roots as a the vigil of a holy day in Christianity, which' [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 10:06pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • On The Occasion of an October Harvest Moon

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    Shine On, Shine On Harvest Moon, for me and my gal.

    Those are the words of an old song I learned to play on the electric organ, a Magnus 300, when I was about five years old. You may have had one - a [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 12:38pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 548. Over The Hump

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    My father was discharged from the hospital at lunchtime. Hopefully, like my little car for which I had to buy a new battery last week, his stay in the hospital has him recharged for a few more years of arguing with me about left-wing politics (which he does not like), [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:50am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 547. Another Update and Wet Weekend News

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    First, my father is doing better, feeling better, looking better as far a coloring goes, and is eating good and taking his medicine on a regular schedule, something they make you do in a hospital that he thinks is optional at home.

    My mother is enjoying his stay in [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 9:50pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 546. Update and an Email

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    Update on my Dad: The hospital says they are going to keep him until at least Monday and then make some assessments. So, at least he is comfortable.

    An Email to read. Rather than leave the "blog on hiatus" entry up there, I thought I'd copy y'all on an [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 2:53pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 545. Time Out

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    The blog is on hiatus. My father is back in the hospital for a few days. Until his release, we'll be taking a break.' [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 10:53pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 544. Summer Stops

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    By the time you read this, chances are really good you have already missed it. At 5:18 PM today, September 22, 2009, our world, the Earth, crossed one of those magic markers along its annual migration around the Sun. At that point, technically the Autumnal Equinox (here in the northern [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 543. An Original County Trifecta

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    Sometime last week my friend Keith requested a free trip to Lexington for he and his friend, something he knows I am usually up for most anytime. They didn't say exactly when it was they wanted to go, so I suggested they could travel with me to Frankfort today, attend' [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 10:36pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 542. KDP SCEC - Odd Timing

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    Tomorrow is Saturday, the day the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville are playing football. Chances are that a lot of people have plans. You would think it would be an odd day to schedule a meeting. Would it be any odder than scheduling one on the Saturday [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 11:22pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 541. You don't say, Mr. Carter?

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    The other night during his speech on healthcare, President Barack Obama used some language - well at least one word - which a lot of us were waiting for. He used the word lies. He used that word to describe some of what has been said by those across the [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 540. Random Thoughts

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    1. Joe Wilson won his 2008 congressional race 54-46. He is being challenged a second time by Rob Miller, a Marine veteran. His fifteen seconds of fame has raised his national profile, and thus his fundraising, by huge margins. It appears that Joe's "spontaneous outburst" was a well-planned event, designed [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 12:51pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 539. Fifteen Seconds of Fame - Uncivil and Embarassing

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    Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina is the face of the modern day Republican Party. It isn't enough to send outsiders into a Town Hall meeting for heckling purposes at Democratic members of the House of Representatives. This dyed-in-the-wool Republican wanted his fame spread far and' [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 6:52am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 537. Lazy Tuesday Entry for Metro Club Wednesday

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    The monthly meeting of the Metro Democratic Club is tomorrow, Wednesday, at 6:30 pm. The guest speaker will be Kyle Cox, Executive Director of the Kentucky Democratic Party. I had a great deal of problems with the previous ED of the KDP. I haven't had any with Mr. Cox, so' [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 11:27am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 537. Long Entry for a Short Week

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    Okay folks, it is the second week of September. At some point this week K-Mart and Walmart will start dragging out Christmas trees and wrapping paper. Summer, the season of leisure, is coming to an end. Time to get serious.

    Using that last line as a backdrop, let us [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 6:26pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 535. Short Entry for a Long Weekend

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    Labor Day Weekend is about over. I think this is the latest Labor Day can be - the 7th of September, the day old George H. W. Bush once attributed to Pearl Harbor Day. At some point in its history, Labor Day was adopted by Organized Labor, of which my [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 9:06am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 535. Full Moon Makes Life Interesting

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    The first Friday of each month along Louisville's East Market Street corridor is alive and well with the monthly Trolley Hop, although more people actually walk the hop rather than ride. A cornucopia of art shops and studios, restaurants, wine tasting, knick-knack stores, bluegrass musicians, and circus acts take to [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 12:04am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 534. Yarmuth's Town Hall - My Non-Report

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    I didn't go. I'm claustrophobic. I figured the crowd would be more anti- than pro- and I wasn't going to be stuffed into Jefferson County's largest public school auditorium which holds about 1400 people just to hear John tell me what I already know amongst a majority of whom both' [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 7:46am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 533. California Special Election Results

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    Mr. Woods did not win. He ran a distant 5th overall and only did well in Solano County, where he ran second to Ms. Buchanan. She ran third overall to Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, now the Democratic nominee. Garamendi will now have to beat the Republican David Harmer, American Independent [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 7:38am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 532. California's Tenth Congressional District - and John Yarmuth's Town Hall Announcement

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    I've been on the phone making calls to a bunch of people with area codes starting with 925 and 510. They are undecided voters in the Tenth Congressional District of California, an area to the north and east of San Francisco, covering several counties in the low hills out beyond' [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 8:08pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 531. Two more unrelated thoughts: Italics and the Weather

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    Somehow, I've been invaded by the Italics, not to be confused with any Italians who may have also visited at one time or another. A great deal of my blog is now showing up in italics. I'm not sure why. Since I'm not sure how it got that way, I'm [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 8:15am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • Why? Where? What? and Who? Four Unrelated Items

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    Why?

    My friend Tim Havrilek has an entry on his blog, a blog which covers politics in west Kentucky. The Underground Rooster has been mentioned before here along the Left Bank of the Ohio River near Milepost 606. Tim would be considered a conservative Democrat here in Louisville and [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 4:53pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 529. Somber Occasion

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    Today is one of those days that, admittedly, I need a TV. The last time was last summer for the political conventions and the Olympics, and before that the deaths of presidents Ford and Reagan. Today I am here watching, with absolute fascination, the funeral of [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 10:20am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 528. Yarmuth at the Metro

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    The Metro Democratic Club played host to Congressman John Yarmuth last night in a meeting at the American Legion Highland Post on Bardstown Road. The regular membership crowd was swelled to 241 people as we were joined by the Jefferson County Democratic Party Executive Committee, about 30 members of organized [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 7:46am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • Kennedy

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    I received a call from my friend Tim Havrilek in west Kentucky at 1:59 am informing me of the death of United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. We had a brief talk about the late senator, one of the great leaders and people of my [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 6:38am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 526. Thank Goodness for Carter County - and Lewis too. Lewis, really?

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    I don't claim to know much about Carter County. I've been there a few times. The county seat is Grayson and the main north-south street is KY1/KY7, and KY9 and KY2 aren't too far away to the north, just beyond the intersection with I64. And, Grayson is bigger than you' [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 525. A Little Help From My Friends

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    I want to acknowledge the help I received yesterday staffing the Kentucky Democratic Party booth at the State Fair. I always take a day then ask around for volunteers. Yesterday I was there was 9 to 6, but with the help of my friends, we staffed it from 9 to [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 7:34am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 524. Tri-State Adventure

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    Admittedly, about 92% of the adventure was in one state, the good ol' Commonwealth of Kentucky.

    My friend Montero and I took off to the east today to support the candidacy of my friend Robin Webb as she seeks the office of 18th District State Senator in northeastern Kentucky.[...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 11:16pm EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 523. Political Roadtrip

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    Making a small journey across to the northeastern side of Kentucky, a side I'm not familiar with. In checking my list, the last time I was in Greenup County (as well as Elliott County) was the summer of 1987, campaigning for then-gubernatiorial candidate Wallace Wilkinson. We won.

    Today me' [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 7:20am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 522. Barry, We Won.

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    I'm a little upset with my president. And, let's be honest, I like my president a lot. But I don't like this backpeddling and reconciliation over healthcare. I voted for Obama in 2008 for the same reason I voted for John Yarmuth in 2006 - I voted for Change. One [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 8:10am EDT
    by Jeff Noble

  • 521. Hawpe's Departure

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    David Hawpe is one of my favorite writers. Yesterday the Courier-Journal published one last piece of wisdom from one of the last pieces of wisdomhood the place yet holds. In it he writes of coming to the C-J building as a kid to be on the [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 7:55am EDT
    by Jeff Noble
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