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• GAO: 2 Billion Cubic Yards of Mine Spoil Bury Hundreds of KY Watersheds

  —Blue in the Bluegrass

  Strip mining in Eastern Kentucky is so overwhelmingly destructive in so many ways, that even the dry statistics in a government report have the power to shock.
  
  Coal companies got approval to fill hundreds of hollows in Eastern Kentucky during the last decade, according to a new federal [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

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• "Report Details Extent Of Surface Mining In Eastern Kentucky". So SAD.

  —Osi Speaks!

  Report details extent of surface mining in Eastern Kentucky By Bill Estep Coal companies got approval to fill hundreds of hollows in Eastern Kentucky during the last decade, according to a new...
  
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 12:38am EST
  

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• Republican wins 96th House District seat

  —Bluegrass Politics

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  By Beth Musgrave - bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — A former Carter County magistrate and businesswoman will become the first Republican in a decade to represent the 96th House District in Eastern Kentucky. Jill York beat Democrat Barry Webb in a special election Tuesday for the seat vacated by former state Rep. Robin Webb, [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 7:27pm EST
  by Beth Musgrave

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• What Is It With Keith Hall Wasting Money?

  —Page One

  And why does he continue to pull the wool over his constituents’ eyes in Eastern Kentucky?

  Let’s take a trip down the Keith Hall void:

  Speaking of Greg Stumbo and Ethics… [February 24, 2009] Keith Hall - Big Time Hypocrisy [March 2, 2009] Flashback: Keith Hall Shirked Duties in Frankfort [March [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  by jake

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• ‘Comment’ will feature student journalists

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  Joining host Ferrell Wellman on this weekend's "Comment on Kentucky," a public affairs show of the Kentucky Educational Television network, will be three college newspaper editors. They are Laura Butler, editor in chief of The Eastern Progress at Eastern Kentucky University; Kenneth Colston, editor in chief of the Kentucky Kernel at [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  by Jack Brammer

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• County Judges Threaten To Leave KACO

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  BY RANDY WALTERS
  
  The Kentucky Association of Counties, KACO, may have thought the state audit was a tough fight, but another one is on the way that could very well be costly for the entire state. Eastern Kentucky officials are now in agreement that Louisville should not be the [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by L.F.Combs

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