Heading into the Vortex of the Cairo Bridge Capturing the Art of Bridge Structures Recently a traveler through the River County region caught a rare glimpse of art in the design of the Bridge over the Ohio River, just north of where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers join. His name was Paul Winger from St. Paul, Minnesota and he was on a mission.  Read More ... Ivan C. Potter

VA Getting Heat from Congress over Disability Claims One of the more profund aspects of the national health care debate is the fate of returning vets from the wars of the middle east who need immediate medical care. The VA now is faced with over 1,000, 000 disability claims in a massive systems backlog failure. Congressmen are mad and want anwsers from VA as to when and how this problem will be fixed. The following Washington Post story tells the facts behind this national disgrace.  Read More ... steve Vogel

Ky. lawmakers say Canadian plan could decimate burley market — Kentucky burley tobacco farmers and the state’s congressional delegation are seeing smoke over a plan by the Canadian government to ban fruit and bubble gum flavors and other similar additives in cigarettes and cigarillos. The lawmakers and the roughly 8,100 Kentucky farmers who cultivate burley tobacco say the proposal, designed to curb youth smoking, would decimate the market for American air-cured burley tobacco, which is used to make most of Canada’s cigarettes.    Read More ... By Halimah Abdullah, McClatchy News Service

Health Care for Rural Areas: Hawaii Test Case OAKLAND, Calif. - Kaiser Permanente, one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans, is introducing a new generation of mobile health. A first-of-its-kind, 500-square-foot, 10-wheel mobile medical vehicle is being shipped to its home island of Hawaii, known to many as the Big Island, where it will improve health care access for thousands of Kaiser Permanente members and the uninsured. First-year projections indicate an estimated 12,000 Hawaii residents will be served.  Read More ...

Fallen Blossoms and the Ghosts of Crowley Corner Rushing against a fast approaching deadline for the paper, I pulled the car into a tight curve and swung around stopping just short of the Highway 2208 sign at Crowley Corner. To most travelers along Highway 58 going into Clinton or headed the other way to Mayfield, this small intersection held nothing special.  However, for some of us mortals, there were special memories that lingered each time we drove through this part of Hickman County. Like today, bitter April chilled wind pulled at my warmth, until I pushed the scarf into a tight fit around my neck. Moving from the parked car, I headed for my target. Unlike most years, a unique blend of large azaleas, red buds, and tulip blossoms were dancing in the wind each day at a high yard overlooking the road. But this year’s flowers were in trouble. The ice storm had wrought a very cruel pronouncement of a brilliant death sentence for the flowers and trees.  Read More ... Ivan C. Potter

Home Built With "Green Power" Debuts in River Counties Building a Green Home Just because you want a house that echoes historic design approaches doesn’t mean that you must give up having a house that is green and sustainable. Our architect has just designed a prairie style green house for us in Clinton KY. The building is now completed and we have settled in.            Why build green? It can be a stickler of a question. We could discuss carbon footprint, energy independence, and global warming.   Those are great subjects. However, they were not the reasons why my wife and I chose to build a green home.   Read More ... Karl Buss

AIG Comes to Clinton Two Kentucky towns, Middlesboro and Clinton, get their water from a company called Water Services of Kentucky, Inc. The company boasts 7991 customers.  Water Services of Kentucky is a subsidiary of Utilities, Inc. which is a subsidiary of AIG, Inc. On December 30, 2008, Water Services of Kentucky, Inc., grandchild of AIG filed a request with the Kentucky Public Service Commission to approve a rate hike of a whopping 50.8%   Read More ... Mary Potter, westkypolitics.org

Grand Rivers Grand Rivers on Top Ten of Best Southern Towns   Congratulations to Grand Rivers , Kentucky for finishing in, not one, but TWO categories in Southern Living Magazine’s Survey of Bests in the South.   The Grand River Jetty was No. 4 on the list of best views Scenic View  and The City of Grand Rivers came in 8th on the top ten list of small towns in the South. Small Town    Kim Kraemer, Grand Rivers Tourism Commission, emailed to thank WKJPI readers, saying "We couldn't have done it without you. We're feelin' the love in Grand RIvers."  Kentucky 's Lynn's Paradise Cafe in Louisville was No. 10 on the Best Breakfast or Brunch list. There’s a West Kentucky connection in this one – they use pecans from Kentucky Nut Co.  In Hickman.    Read More ...

Philosophy of Mississippi River Journal The Mississippi River Journal was designed with the idea of providing a new media platform in the river counties for people to have access to breaking news and events that will shape their lives. It is intended that the Journal will allow for a new sense of community to be built where citizens of the river counties can engaged in social, cultural, and political discussions on how to proceed into the future.  Read More ... Ivan Potter

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Pecans the stuff legends are made of I was transfixed with desire. Gorge myself or just admire the beauty in front of me. What a problem.   I was snapped out of my dilemma, as I watched a single slice of strawberry slide over the edge of the highest piece of toast, dragging with it a big pecan.   The pecan was from Kentucky Kernel of Hickman, Kentucky, “The Stuff of Legends.”   Read More ...

Fuel Cells in a Hydrocarbon Economy With the diminishing appeal of hydrogen, one might think that interest in fuel cells might be waning. Not so fast, my friend.  Read More ... Richard T. Stuebi, Cleantech Blog