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Monday, November 7, 2011

NEWS ROUND-UP -- MONDAY MORNING

by Michael Monks 

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ELECTION DAY IS TOMORROW -- DO YOU KNOW WHERE TO VOTE?
All you have to do is enter your full name and birthday and it will identify your precinct. Several Covington precincts have changed for this election with more than one being redirected to City Hall.
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ELECTION GUIDE
The entire statewide Constitutional offices are on the ballot. Please vote, and please vote with all the information you can find. At the link, find an excellent voters' guide from Lexington's newspaper that lays all most of the issues and how all of the candidates feel about them.
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CANDIDATES MAKE LAST NKY PUSH
It will be interesting to see where the 3 NKY counties fall on Tuesday night. Both sides made last0ditch efforts over the weekend to reach voters here.
Former Senator Jim Bunning speaks
on behalf of Republican gubernatorial candidate
David Williams in Campbell County. Via
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Democratic candidate
signs at Turfway where candidates
campaigned Sunday night. Via




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NEW MLK/12TH STREET SEES FIRST BAD CRASH SINCE FULLY REOPENING
2 people were sent to the hospital after a head-on crash on the new Martin Luther King Boulevard/12th Street. 
Local 12
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EFFORT TO GET KENTUCKY A SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL WILL FAIL
A few guys proud to be Kentuckians launched a quixotic attempt to land a Super Bowl commercial for the Commonwealth. All they needed was $3.5 million. They launched the effort through the new online fundraising portal, Kickstarter, and were able to raise over $100,000, but still fell well short of their goal, which expires this morning. In any case, they made a fun, clever video for all people who love Kentucky.
Kentucky For Kentucky
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OMNICARE IS HIRING IF ANYONE WANTS TO WORK ACROSS THE RIVER
Interested in working at RiverCenter for a few weeks before the job is shipped overseas? Well, over-river, anyway.
Work In Counseling
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NKU "TRENDS" ON TWITTER
A pretty big deal for people who use Twitter, or "tweeps". Following the big upset win over West Virginia in men's basketball, #NKU (read: hashtag-NKU) became so popular on Twitter that it became a trending topic. The men take on UC tomorrow night. Can the Norse knock off 2 Big East teams in 4 days?
NKU @ Twitter
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CVG AIRPORT MAY BE STRUGGLING, BUT SIOUX CITY REALLY SUX


From an article on unfortunate acronyms: 
While FAA identifiers for airports aren’t technically acronyms, the three-letter codes can give rise to their own headaches. Just ask the Sioux City Gateway Airport, which the FAA saddled with the unfortunate designator “SUX.” Airport authorities petitioned for a new code, and the FAA – and this is not a joke – offered them “GAY” as a nod to the “Gateway” part of the airport’s name.
Sioux City decided that switching to GAY probably wouldn’t save them much sophomoric taunting, so officials decided to make the best of the SUX situation. Now the airport markets playful t-shirts emblazoned with slogans like “Fly SUX.”
SUX might not even be the worst airport code. According to a 2008 LA Times story, Fresno’s is FAT, and Perm, Russia’s is PEE. The big winner has to be Fukuoka, Japan, though. We’ll let you guess how that one gets abbreviated.
Read more funny, unfortunate acronyms from the list at: 
Mental Floss
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DID YOU MISS THE SUNDAY EDITION?
The week that was and the week that will be in Covington is right at the link.
The River City News -- Sunday Edition

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