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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Will Bardstown’s smoking ban light a fire under voters in November?

By JIM BROOKS The Nelson County Gazette Tomorrow evening, the Bardstown City Council will have the second reading of an ordinance that will ban smoking in public places. The ban has ignited considerable controversy on both sides of the issue, though from my perspective, there’s quite a significant silent majority who no one has heard [...]

Stop the insanity: No more urban legend e-mails, please!

By JIM BROOKS The Nelson County Gazette Since my first travels on this thing called the World Wide Web, one of my biggest pet peeves has long been what today is known as the urban legend.  I first heard the term not as a reference to the Internet, but from the Folk Studies program while [...]