"If the court does not step in," said Joseph A. Main, the U.S. assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health, "someone may be seriously injured or die." This is going to be huge.
And it's interesting that it comes the day after the election and on the day that President Obama spoke of cap-and-trade as a "was."
Here's one more final election-night story--and one of the strangest to come out of western Kentucky this year.
Good jobs news from Campbellsville, Flemingsburg, Hopkinsville and Lexington. Bad from Louisville.
I think it's fun to look at this old Garrard County deputy's badge. (By the way, I've always mispronounced this county's name, says Wikipedia.)
The Paducah Sun has a new business editor.
Free Enes.
I was so excited to see a new "Oh, Kentucky."
ReplyDeleteI was working with a group of archaeologists in Garrard County a few years ago, and we spent every afternoon eating fried catfish and apple pies at a roadside restaurant near Bryantsville, a town bypassed and forgotten by the "new" U.S. 27. One of the guys in our crew was a transplant from Indiana, and he had yet to acclimate to Kentucky pronunciations. He told the waitress, a slinky little country girl with buck-teeth who always called us "hon," that he thought "Guh-rard" county was beautiful. In a sassy manner she shot back, "I don't know where that place is but here we say 'Gair-ehd.'"
ReplyDeleteWelcome to The Heath Post, Nosmo!
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