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To Our Elected Representatives

The following are some concerns I have for myself and fellow state employees. While you look over these concerns, I would appreciate it if you remember we are the ones who take calls at all hours of the day and night. We are expected to respond to these emergencies promptly and we do. This we do not only for the safety of the public and our families, but for your families also. Most of the time these calls require us to leave our families in bad weather when we need to be at home, but we go anyway. Also remember we basically left our families for five months during the ice storm. We put our lives and situations on hold to do the job we had to do.

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I was somewhere near the airport in Louisville this past Saturday night. It was some sort of flea market I think. It wasn’t a very impressive structure. The building seemed to be past its prime, and a little neglected, but this did not concern me in the least. I wasn’t there to take measure of the facility, but rather to watch my good friend compete for the amateur lightweight title in a local mixed martial arts competition.  He was the very last fight on the card, the main event in fact, but this is nothing new to my friend. He has been working towards this for the past three years or so, and has inevitably made a name for himself in the Kentucky ranks.  

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HOPKINS COUNTY, KY - Most of us view our day to day as ordinary. We wake up, prepare for the day, and make our way to the various institutions of work or education. We either embrace it, or endure it as best we can. Irregardless of this, it is the same thing that we did yesterday, and will surely be the same thing we will do tomorrow.

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