tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105675602026-02-28T17:41:32.788-05:00Check back often for news and commentary about Kentucky by David Adams. Contact via email: kentuckydavid@alumni.harvard.edu or Lexington area telephone 537-5372.David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-76499273578671093732026-02-28T17:41:00.000-05:002026-02-28T17:41:32.779-05:00

 My seventh great grandfather was Ben Franklin's dad. My sixth great grandfather published the Silence Dogood letters without knowing his little brother wrote them.Not much of a connection, maybe, but still, I'd like to see Uncle Ben's face removed from American "currency." Pick another politician and leave the rest of us out of it.

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 The year is 2086. A teenager approaches her grandparents asking “I just learned in my history reading that you were forced for a long time to go five days a week to a school run by the government. Is that true?” “Yes, we really were.” “What did they do,” she asks skeptically, “yell at you to keep quiet, make you eat prison food and make you ask

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 What is one idea that could quickly have the biggest positive impact on Kentucky’s future?Sorry to hit you with a big question like that out of the blue, but while you’re thinking about it, I will give you mine and – fair warning – this might take a minute to wrap your head around.I think the most potent public policy innovation we could enact almost right away is to eliminate all the rules

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