News opinion 2008-07-31 Andanh.com

Culinary capital Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:49:00 EST
Those who want change in Washington are hoping voters will take a hard look at the long-serving, pork-slicing members of the Senate.

Beshear gets it Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:49:00 EST
The American system of justice assumes that, once a person has paid the penalty for crime, it's in everybody's interest to help that individual integrate productively into society. Prosecutors should understand that, but some don't get it.

Squeezing into a new way of getting around Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:49:00 EST
Those teeny weeny cars that barrel down Europe's narrow streets and roundabouts put me in the mind of cockroaches, scurrying when light comes to dark places.

'Field general' Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:50:00 EST
It was in the mid-1960s when the DuPont plant in Rubbertown blew up, killing a bunch of folks. Elmer "Tiger" Hall was assistant city editor in those days when newspapering was fun.

Aug. 1, 1883: When Louisville lit up Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:50:00 EST
Tomorrow, Aug. 1, Louisville will celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Southern Exhibition, one of the most spectacular events in history. The exhibition, a showcase of manufacturing and agriculture, was lit with incandescent lamps made by a former Louisville resident, Thomas A. Edison.

No time for dithering Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:50:00 EST
Another paradise day in our old river town and we linger over supper in the backyard and talk about the dry weather and bats (Do they eat three thousand mosquitoes per night?

Demonizing 'liberalism' Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:51:00 EST
Had it not been liberals, it would have been something else. Let's grant that from the beginning. Broken people, after all, can always find some equally broken rationale for the carnage they cause.

Affordable housing's gain Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:51:00 EST
If you were to ask Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd -- the principal architects of the massive housing bill signed Wednesday by President Bush -- which of its many features pleases them most, the answer would surprise you.

4 million disserved... Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:03:00 EST

Readers' views Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:20 EDT

If you don't own land, you have no say in CentrePointe

Whatever happened to private property rights?

Preserve Lexington, Vice Mayor Jim Gray and Councilman Dick DeCamp do not own any of the property involved in the CentrePointe development. If any of them had taken out their wallets and purchased some or all of this property, they might have standing to complain.

Instead, they were trying to stand in the way.

Morton's Row: Going, going ... ? Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:23 EDT

In 1826, Sens. Henry Clay and John Randolph drew pistols in a duel in Washington, D.C., (no harm came to either) while back in Lexington, The Kentucky Association was getting organized .to improve the breed of horses by encouraging the sports of the turf.. Jefferson Davis, the future president of the Confederate States of America, had graduated from Transylvania University just two years earlier. Slaves were still being sold downtown, and it would be 16 years before the young Abraham Lincoln, who would finally end the peculiar institution, wed Lexington native Mary Todd.

That year, 1826, William Morton built a row of buildings on Upper Street. He had already made his mark in Lexington, where his general trading store had been in business since the 1780s.

Morton seemed to like building and had progressive tastes. Architectural historian Clay Lancaster noted in Vestiges of the Venerable City that Lexington's .era of greatest architectural refinement ... got off to a lively start in 1810. with the construction of Morton's home on North Limestone. Cassius Marcellus Clay, who lived in the home for a time, called it the most elegant in the city.

Morton's Row, as the buildings at 116 to 128 South Upper are known, brought an element of refinement to Lexington's commercial landscape. .A remarkably early example,. of the Greek Revival style, architectural historian Walter Langsam, wrote in 1979. .It remains one of the most important early buildings in downtown Lexington, both historically and architecturally..

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