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BREAKING: The Kentucky Democratic Party Has a National Problem On Its Hands

As if Jennifer Moore’s treatment of Jeff Noble (she’s still doing it) wasn’t bad enough, get a load of this. Twenty people (delegates) have filed a complaint or challenge against Ruth Ann Palumbo and the Kentucky Democratic Party for failure to implement a plan approved by the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee. Both Chairwoman Jennifer [...]
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Experts studying climate say they got first hand experience with warming

Five scientists studying shorebirds in northern Alaska had to themselves take flight after a polar bear showed up at a time of year it should have been out on ice floes hunting seals. The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said Thursday that it chartered a plane to fly the experts out early "because of a new and unusual threat: a polar bear stuck on land due to climate change."     -Read More-

Today’s Boring Or Whatever So Let’s Play a Game

Answer these life-or-death questions: Who would you pick to pet sit your dog? Anne Northup or John Yarmuth If you needed a kidney transplant, whose would you rather have?
 
Mitch Mcconnell’s kidney or Bruce Lunsford’s kidney Who would you rather remove a splinter from your finger? Barack Obama or John McCain If you were arrested and locked up for DUI, who would [...]
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Governor Beshear Signs Electric Car Order

Remember those cute little three-wheeled electric cars? Governor Steve Beshear just signed an executive order allowing them on Kentucky roads. The press release: FRANKFORT, Ky. (August 5, 2008) – Gov. Steve Beshear today signed an executive order directing the Transportation Cabinet to immediately develop and implement an emergency regulation authorizing the use of low-speed electric vehicles on Kentucky’s [...]
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Judge Denies Teens To Become Part of Six Flags Lawsuit

A judge has ruled the families of two Louisville teens won't be allowed to collect damages as part of a negligence lawsuit against Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom.
 
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Rwandans look to Louisville for interfaith model
The BlackWednesday Newsroom
Written by -Chuck   
Monday, 04 August 2008
Peace activists seek reconciliation

By: Peter Smith

Solange Maniraguha survived the horrors of genocide in Rwanda in 1994 -- but her parents, four siblings and about 150 others from her extended family were murdered.

Solange ManiraguhaToday, she works as a trauma counselor and within a Quaker organization called Friends Peace House in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, trying to reconcile victims and perpetrators of the violence.

It's a daunting task, and one that's getting a boost from an unlikely place: Louisville, Ky.

As Maniraguha and other Rwandans attempt to win the trust of people from various religions, they're modeling their agency after Louisville's Center for Interfaith Relations.

"It's really more important to me to know how to work together without looking (at) which religion this person is coming from, but how to rebuild trust, reconciliation and finally durable peace," Maniraguha said in an e-mail to The Courier-Journal.

The unlikely connection between Kentucky and Kigali began when a group of Rwandan Quaker peace activists traveled through Louisville two years ago and learned about the Louisville center -- best known for organizing the annual Festival of Faiths, which brings in outside speakers and aims to foster greater knowledge and cooperation across religious lines.

The Rwandans invited the center's executive director, Jan Arnow, to visit their country, where in May, she conducted workshops and discussions with a group that included various faiths, from Muslims to Catholics to Quakers to Pentecostals.
 
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