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A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a former soldier, Congressman Brett Guthrie commended the community’s support of soldiers, which he called a “big decision maker” when officials were
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WASHINGTON For the millions of Americans with brain diseases and disorders, many of them incurable and degenerative, life often is filled with challenges and uncertainty. 34-year-old Kala Booth of Cecilia, Kentucky is the fourth generation in her family to have Huntington’s Disease, a brain disorder caused by a defective gene that impacts movement, mood and thinking skills.
She saw firsthand how it ravaged her grandfather. In the late 90 s/early 2000 s, when I should have been creating memories with my papaw, I was emotionally disconnecting from him. Huntington’s Disease had turned this previously gentle man into someone who beat my mamaw black and blue, someone we needed to keep a phone nearby in case we needed to call 911, said Booth at a U.S. House Health, Energy and Commerce
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The Elizabethtown-Fort Knox Metropolitan Statistical Area almost disappeared from the national map â along with Owensboro and Bowling Green.
It was not a plague, national disaster or enemy attack but a bureaucratic statistical adjustment that threatened the Kentucky communities.
A federal government proposal, which surfaced in March, would have removed MSA status for nearly 150 communities. In your day-to-day life, this seems like a small matter but itâs big bucks for the three areas impacted.
Hereâs just one example cited in a report by The Brookings Institute: The Department of Transportation makes funding available for highway and construction planning to urban areas of 50,000 or more based on plans developed by their local metropolitan planning organizations. Losing an MSA status would lump these vibrant communities in with the enter state transportation plan. It likely would be detrimental to transportation planning and spending in our area.