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My father’s family grew up on Long Run out in Texas, just a few miles from Springfield on the old Perryville Road. 

“Mr. Henry” Best, the head teacher at the Texas school house, lived between the Cocanoughers and Johnnie Key, who still worked his team of mules when I was a kid in the early sixties.  
The Best family had old ties with the Denny Goode clan, and Denny’s raccoon hunting tradition fascinated this young man, transplanted to the Kenton County suburbs.

During the last three or four months we continue to hear about how things are getting better.

The focus has been on the need for more government spending.
Politicians are forever quoting moral values, theological concepts, as if they are the only ones who understand the true meaning.
Unfortunately, we are being led down a path from which there may be no return.
From this view point, we, as citizens, are not getting the truth and we are forgetting about the real problem we are facing.

The word ‘history’ was used a lot on Monday evening at St. Catharine Hall.

I think I’m correct when I predict that the word was used fittingly.
On Monday, a partnership was officially formed between St. Catharine College and The Berry Center.
The Berry Center is based on supporting sustainable agriculture.
You may have heard of one of the Berry’s.
His name is Wendell. He’s an internationally-known author.

We have reached the half-way point of the 2012 General Assembly Session.

There are daily committee meetings, policy briefings, visits from constituents, and meetings with various advocacy groups.
Early in the week, the Senate passed Senate Bill 103 in a bipartisan vote that will require a doctor performing an abortion to first perform an ultrasound (which is done anyway) so that the woman may view it, if she wishes.
The woman will not be forced to look at the picture.