As we give thanks, let’s give some help
As many of us prepare a big Thanksgiving dinner, it’s worth thinking about neighbors who won’t be so lucky. There are more of them than usual. In fact, food bank directors across Kentucky say there are...
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Alltech’s CEO focuses on another green: algae
Pearse Lyons has seen the future, and it is pond scum. Scientists call it algae, and the founder and president of Alltech thinks the simple, fast-growing plants have the potential to help solve some of...
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Kentucky hunger: taking from poor while giving to rich is shameful
The God’s Pantry warehouse on Jaggie Fox Way. The food bank, which also has warehouses in Winchester and Prestonsburg, distributes food to the needy in 50 counties of Central and Eastern Kentucky....
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Andy Barr votes to take food from poor, then serves up baloney
Today’s George Orwell Award goes to U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, for the press release reproduced below. For a different view of the situation, read this guest column in today’s Herald-Leader by...
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New program allows restaurant patrons to feed hungry neighbors
Megan Moore was having lunch with friends from work last year at a new north Lexington restaurant when she noticed neighborhood residents walking by. She realized that many of them probably couldn’t...
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Heirloom seed sale will help take mind off winter, feed neighbors
Looking for ways to cope with a foot of snow, single-digit temperatures and the virtual shutdown of Kentucky? Try sitting back, pouring a cup of coffee and planning your spring garden. Then, when you...
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