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Florida woman extends her Kentucky roots at Mercer horse show
hmorris@amnews.comHARRODSBURG — Deborah Butler is a Florida girl, but she keeps getting drawn back to Kentucky. And winning in Kentucky. Her latest victory came Wednesday night when she rode Bi Mi’s Southern Rose to a win in the adult five-gaited pleasure class...Tags: Animals, Farms, Jim Carrey
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Allan Powell: Nobel Prize winning economist defends crisis views
For some time, I have been an admirer of Paul Krugman. Reading his latest book, “End This Depression Now!” was a real joy because he writes as though he is talking directly to each reader. His command of his subject is masterful and if one...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Politics, Entertainment Events, Banking, Crime, Law and Justice
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
Don't be agast (or even aghast)! Tribune once trifled with standard spelling
![For more than 40 years, the Tribune crusaded against an "unspeakable offense," a "monster cruelty": English spelling.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67685661-28163220.jpg "For more than 40 years, the Tribune crusaded against an "unspeakable offense,\" a \"monster cruelty\": English spelling.")
For more than 40 years, the Tribune crusaded against an "unspeakable offense," a "monster cruelty": English spelling.
From Jan. 28, 1934, to Sept. 28, 1975, the newspaper adopted a system of simplified spelling, a cause dearly felt by publisher Col....Tags: Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt
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'Hog butcher for the world'
![The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of glory and gore.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/68200893-18153110-187105.JPG "The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world.\" That came a year earlier, when \"hog alley\" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of glory and gore.")
The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of...Tags: Steaks, Bertolt Brecht, Cook County Government, McKinley Park, Thomas Pynchon
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The poetry of discussion
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Our Sulzer Regional Library Great Books Discussion Group has been meeting for more than 30 years. Annually, we pick a theme to guide our book selections and discussions. This year's theme is morality. Last year we read books dealing with...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Arts and Culture, Henry Adams, Immanuel Kant, Anthony Powell
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Where's the slime?
timr@herald-mail.comThis one’s for all you people who have laughed at me over the years for raising my own beef cattle, because I didn’t trust the meat coming out of America’s factory farms. Well, maybe, not laughed outright, but looked at me funny,...Tags: Facebook, E. coli Infection, Salmonella Infection, The New York Times, Pink (singer)
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Safety concerns, industry changes push U.S. to rethink approach to food inspection
Every day, inspectors in white hats and coats take up positions at every one of the nation's slaughterhouses, eyeballing the hanging carcasses of cows and chickens as they shuttle past on elevated rails, looking for bruises, tumors and signs of...Tags: Seafood, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Career and Workplace, Companies and Corporations, Barack Obama
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CAFO protection law passes in Iowa, Illinois hearings held Wednesday
![Last week we reported on an <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/stew/chi-food-policy-ag-gag-bill-protested-in-des-moines-and-awaited-in-illinois-20120301,0,3958400.story" target="_blank">Iowa bill aimed at preventing undercover investigations at concentrated animal feeding operations</a> that was on Gov. Terry Brandstad's desk.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/173242940-05120514.jpg "Last week we reported on an <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/stew/chi-food-policy-ag-gag-bill-protested-in-des-moines-and-awaited-in-illinois-20120301,0,3958400.story\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa bill aimed at preventing undercover investigations at concentrated animal feeding operations</a> that was on Gov. Terry Brandstad's desk.")
Last week we reported on an Iowa bill aimed at preventing undercover investigations at concentrated animal feeding operations that was on Gov. Terry Brandstad's desk.
At the time Brandstad's office said it was still considering but late Friday he quietly...Tags: Politics, Laws, Career and Workplace, Executive Branch, Labor Legislation
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Musician's design hits right notes [Corrected]
For University High School, money does grow on trees. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version incorrectly stated the number of votes Lisa Xie's design got. It was 445, not 445,000. -------------------- At least, it does now since a...Tags: Politics, Facebook, Schools, Music, Companies and Corporations
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Rutten: Amazon's shameful California tax dodge
At the turn of the last century, as the robber barons' first gilded age lingered on, many Californians came to regard one powerful enterprise as the symbol of oppressive avarice and of big money's corrupt appropriation of the political process. That...Tags: Arts and Culture, Computer Networking and Internet, Politics, U.S. Supreme Court, Companies and Corporations
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