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Column as I see ’em …
I was off hunting deer last week and had no intention of climbing out of my tree stand to respond to a letter to the editor in last week’s paper from David Steedly.
But that doesn’t mean I’m letting that letter go unanswered.
Steedly, a member of the county’s environmental committee, thought it necessary to “provide some factual information” to clear up an editorial I wrote the previous week.
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Test scores: widening gap or bridge to future success?
The word “gap” elicits two images when tied with measuring educational success.
1. An impassable gulf.
2. A sliver of space easily closed.
Let’s talk about what “gap” really means.
The Kentucky Department of Education recently released the test scores of its new assessment model, and Anderson County’s data indicated some seemingly contradictory results.
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Recalling the ghosts of presidential elections past
If you can’t remember your first election, I certainly can.
In 2008 I sat on my futon in my college dorm room and sealed the envelope on my Illinois absentee ballot with a mixture of dread and hope.
A few years later, I drove myself to a local Nebraska precinct to vote in the state and municipal races.
I was nervous, and probably babbled to the woman signing me in.
Stepping up to the booth, I felt like I always do now when I vote, that the weight of American democracy depended on my shoulders.
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Right, wrong ways to bust scam artists
As the elderly woman cried in her living room Monday morning, I visualized holding the oak club I keep in my truck and fetching the bad guy I hoped would show up a good lick right in the chops.
Instead I held a camera and settled for the fact that if he did show, Det. Bryan Taylor would bust his chops the legal way and I could put the photo of him doing so on this week’s front page.
As is generally the case with yellow-belly scum who prey on the elderly, the guy was a no-show.
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Why this city girl cares about the Farm Bill
In a few short months, it’ll be 1949.
And it’s up to the House to keep us from time traveling.
The 2008 Farm Bill — composed of a multitude of programs, assistance and funding for U.S. producers — needs to be extended in the short-term by the first of 2013, or the legislation on the books will be one that hasn’t been in place for 60 years.
This poses several problems for Anderson County producers and even Anderson County consumers like myself.
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Public officials more skilled at hiding than transparency
Don’t ask me to make you look good.
That question has fallen from the mouths of many well-meaning public officials and municipal employees I’ve interacted with since coming to work and report in Lawrenceburg.
Unfortunately for them, making public officials look good is not in my job description.
Not that making them look bad is. But I suppose in certain circles, that’s debatable.
I sit with a notebook in a public room as the representatives of our city and county speak. Simple as that.
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Are schools starving hungry students?
Kids’ stomachs are grumbling, and so are critics of the new national nutritional standards for school lunch.
Although the new guidelines for healthier meals have been officially in place through the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 since the beginning of the school year, criticism flared anew last month about the new caloric limits for lunches.
High school students from Kansas complained about their apparent hunger through a medium sure to spread their message virally — YouTube.
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Freshman relives difficult decision to sell ‘best friend’
Staying strong while parting with her first pony
Editor’s note: Carson Tarter is a freshman at Anderson County High School in Melanie Valdivieso’s composition class. Her personal narrative assignment appears here with her permission.
For the past three years my whole life has revolved around riding and taking care of my first pony, Luke.
I never dreamed that I’d have to sell my best friend.
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A good sense of trust is hard to find
Trust is becoming as rare as floppy disks these days.
Both are relics for a future museum. I envision the working title: “Things Americans Once Used and Threw Away.”
Other exhibits will showcase print volumes of the dictionary, instructions for dinner etiquette and glass milk bottles.
Trust in anything — churches, media, banks, government, school districts — is becoming harder for people to commit to.
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Finding sanity on the road
Right before checking into an insane asylum, I hit the open road.
Some people meditate. Contort themselves into yoga pretzels and sailors’ knots in an effort to relieve stress.
I drive.
Sanity, for me, is found in the silence behind the steering wheel.
Both my hands grip the wheel at 10 and 2, freeing my mind to wander into the dark corners of things I don’t want to and need to think about.
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