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Morning Cram
7:23 am
Tue September 11, 2012

the morning cram [We Remember edition]

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Today on NPR:

  • One NPR editor learns lessons about 9/11 from her father's West Point Class of '65, the class that would suffer the academy's greatest number of casualties in Viet Nam.
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Society
6:26 am
Tue September 11, 2012

Williams marriage ending after 9 years

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Senate President David Williams

Kentucky Senate President David Williams and his wife are divorcing after nine years of marriage.  In a statement from Williams’ office Monday, Robyn Williams says the "rough-and-tumble pressures" of politics put "unique and incessant pressure" on their relationship.

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Politics
11:24 am
Wed August 15, 2012

Abramson Doesn’t Expect Major Change in the Tax Code

Jerry Abramson

The chair of Kentucky’'s tax commission says a sweeping overhaul of the state's tax code isn't in the works.

Lieutenant Governor Jerry Abramson says, in his heart, he wants to see a major change in the tax code.

“But at the same time my brain tells that generally in state government things move incrementally forward,” he says, adding that a grand reform bill isn't likely to pass the legislature.

And Abramson says throwing out and completely rewriting the state tax code, as state Senate President David Williams previously advocated for, is out of the question:

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Society
7:45 am
Thu June 7, 2012

Farmer Puts Home Up for Sale

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Former Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer has put his Frankfort home up for sale a month after a bank filed a foreclosure lawsuit on the property. 

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Afternoon Update
4:17 pm
Wed May 16, 2012

Afternoon Round-Up 5/16/12

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Today on NPR:For $75, This Guy Will Sell You 1,000 Facebook 'Likes'

Around the Commonwealth:

Kentucky Senate President David Williams says he had no idea what trouble his former gubernatorial running mate Richie Farmer was causing as agriculture commissioner.

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