Thursday, May 17
Arguably the area’s best craft beer event, the Keg Liquors seventh-annual Fest of Ale, will be pouring some of the finest brews found anywhere on June 2 from 3-7 p.m. at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church (320 N. Sherwood Ave.) in Clarksville. It began as little more than a casual kegger drawing less than 100 people, [...]
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Until Trayvon Martin was killed, the American Legislative Exchange Council was just another corporately funded covert partisan group, quietly and covertly trying to reshape America state by state from within through the legislative process. Though ALEC, based in Washington, DC, is conservative, there are liberal counterparts. All try to fly below the radar as they [...]
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No one likes paying taxes, even when they know it’s necessary to running a city, state and country. But what’s different about paying taxes as opposed to spending money on necessities such as gasoline, utilities, phone bills and life insurance is we see our dollars leaving our wallets for use on clear and impactful ends. [...]
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The weather is warm and the glass wall is retracted at Varanese, where a Justin and Landmark Wineries dinner is scheduled for May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Rebecca Hotz, on-premise manager in Kentucky and Ohio for both vineyards, will be the evening’s special guest speaker. She will describe each wine pairing and take questions from [...]
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By Dr. Peter Hasselbacher, Kentucky Health Policy Institute In an earlier post, I urged readers to make their opinions known to Metro Louisville leadership about the University of Louisville’s request to maintain the status quo as to how public money for indigent care – the QCCT funds – is funneled through U of L. In that [...]
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The transitional periods in American society are always the toughest. Agrarian to industrial. Segregated to integrated. The ongoing tumult as we move to a convergent digital media society from an analog/print model. Everyone knows the conventional media are dying, shedding journalists left and right. Digital information delivery is growing, but we haven’t reached the revenue [...]
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Few fundraisers go from zero to six figures in dollars collected in their first year, but that’s what happened to Bourbon & Bowties when it launched in 2010. The food and drink extravaganza, held annually at Corbett’s: An American Place, pulled in $211,000 in 2011, and this year, on June 14, the group is aiming [...]
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Student journalist Emily McConville: Top JCPS students find high school graduations in jeopardy after they exhaust math class choices!
Senior Ankush Gupta stared at the computer screen, eyes wide. He had just pulled up the JCPS graduation requirements and read the one fact that would pose a problem for the next several months: Jefferson County Public Schools requires not four credits of math, but four years. Gupta had many more than four credits [...]
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