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Merit pay for teachers merits consideration

Hardin County Schools Superintendent Teresa Morgan at a recent town hall on public pensions bemoaned the fact that…

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Students at Seattle college denied well-rounded education by thought police

If it were a plague, the government would rush to quarantine the infected, as occurred during Europe’s Black…

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Amazing that Dems still cling to ACA

When Democrats elected Barack Obama president in 2008 they reached their modern-day zenith. Not only did they have…

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Auto industry has glamorous past but opaque future

DETROIT – Bending metal, slapping on chrome and marketing an empowering product and status marker that mesmerized 20th-century…

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Go ahead, blame Obama, if it brings better gun laws

“Bump stocks.” Hardly anyone had heard about them before they were found in the late Las Vegas sniper’s…

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Why criticize Harvey Weinstein?

“Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.”…

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Distracting ourselves to death

WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump said a few days ago that now isn’t the time for a…

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Secret presidential search not what UofL needs

If the serial scandals at the University of Louisville teach anything, it’s the perils of secrecy, which is…

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Kentucky Wired versus the Big Dig

What does a silver bullet cost? At least $490 million, the figure being thrown around by bureaucrats charged…

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The resilient American consumer

WASHINGTON – The American consumer is the great engine of growth for the $19 trillion U.S. economy, representing…