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Speaker's Corner
2:42 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Susan & Morgan Guess Present Bullying: A Plan for Kentucky and What Kids Can Do

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Susan and Morgan Guess presented "A Plan for Kentucky and What Kids Can Do," during the Murray Human Rights Commission's Bullying Conference on April 6, 2013 in the Barkley Room of the Curris Center at Murray State University. Here is the the audio of their nearly hour long discussion of what the Guess family has done to bring attention to the issue of bullying since Morgan's experience.

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Morning Cram
8:17 am
Thu August 30, 2012

the morning cram [vets do it to win edition]

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Members of the Australian Team march at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Summer Games.

Today on NPR:

U.S. and British Veterans are raising the bar at this year's Paralympic Games.

In Kentucky:

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Education
7:16 am
Thu August 30, 2012

Federal civil rights official urges high schoolers to speak out on bullying

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It’s been 49 years since Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” yet a top civil rights official says he’s amazed at some of the discrimination and harassment that continues across the country.  Thomas Perez, head of the Civil Rights Division at the US. Department of Justice spoke to high school freshmen in Lexington Wednesday about bullying.

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Morning Cram
9:26 am
Wed June 6, 2012

the morning cram [gyyaarrrggghhh!!! edition]

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I'm not sure what the Pirate Party is...but I'm down. 

NPR reports on one of Germany's newest political parties. Tech-savy twenty-somethings have a fresh vision on democracy. 

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Retiring Lawmaker Series
12:36 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Representative Mike Cherry on planned retirement

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Mike Cherry has served as a democrat in the state house representative for 14 years. He’s retiring as the chair of the House State Government Committee and, as a former navy captain, the highest ranking military member of the General Assembly. Cherry represents the fourth district which includes Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston and part of McCracken counties.  

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