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Tod Megibow, a prominent Paducah attorney, was found dead in his offi ce Wednesday morning, sparking feelings of sadness and shock among those who knew him.

Paducah police spokeswoman Robin Newberry said a staff member at the Meg-ibow Law Offi ce, 111 S. Sixth St., called police at 8:26 a.m. and offi cers arrived to fi nd Megibow, 61, dead inside. Newberry said no foul play is expected. She referred further comments to McCracken County Coroner Dan Sims, who said the cause of death is still under in-vestigation. He said investigators are esti-mating that the death occurred late Tuesday evening and that an autopsy is not planned.

News of Megibow’s death spread quickly across the courthouse and the community as the day wore on Wednesday, reaching many friends and colleagues.

A New York native, friends say Megi-bow was proud of his heritage and Jewish faith. He attended a small Kentucky col-lege and then ended up in Paducah soon after starting his career.

Paducah attorney Will Kautz said Megi-bow was a friend. He said he met him in 1979 or 1980 when Megibow was working in Eddyville in the Department of Public Advocacy’s post-conviction offi ce. The job was Megibow’s fi rst as an attorney before he moved on to personal injury and then criminal work in Paducah.

“He was an excellent civil practitioner and an excellent criminal defense attor-ney,” Kautz said. “Tod was a delightful person to be around. I consider him a

Paducah attorney Megibow found dead

BY MALLORY PANUSKAmpanuska@paducahsun.com

Community members have been taking working lunches over the past few years, but instead of spending that time with high-powered professionals, they’re spending it with elementary school students.

One day a week, volunteers with the Reading PALS program meet

with their student partner. The program, a creation of the Unit-ed Way of Paducah-McCracken County, started in the fall of 2010 at McNabb Elementary School. Monique Zuber, community im-pact specialist, said they started with 24 volunteers. The program grew by 20 volunteers for the 2011-2012 school year. Clark, Morgan and Farley elementary

schools will participate starting in the fall.

“The main goals are improving students’ literacy level, improve attendance and improving disci-pline,” Zuber said.

Volunteers come in for 30 min-utes of reading and 30 minutes of lunch with their reading pal.

United Way Reading PALS program expandsBY REBECCA FELDHAUS

rfeldhaus@paducahsun.com

GRAND RIVERS — Local law enforcement has stepped up its water patrols with ex-pectations of crowded water-ways for the offi cial kickoff to summer boating.

While last year’s holiday kept many boaters at bay — or

anchored in bays — for much of the weekend because of high winds and rough water, the clear weather report at the end of the week will bolster people’s spirits when leaving port, offi cials believe.

“With the way the economy has been, I expect to see more local tourists coming to the

lake because it will be a one-day trip versus going and stay-ing somewhere, so I’m looking for it to be a pretty heavy boat-ing day,” said Sgt. Garry Clark, state fi sh and wildlife resource offi cer.

As Memorial Day is the fi rst major holiday weekend of the year, Clark said it’s all hands

on deck for the state agency, as the full contingent of offi -cers will be on patrol for safe boating practices across the major lakes and rivers.

“People need to pay strict attention to what they’re do-ing and the operator needs to

‘Always be on the lookout’

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Lakes law enforcement plan for busy weekend

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Dylan Smith (left) and Joe Wiley, rental dock employees at Green Turtle Bay, prepare a houseboat before it casts off to Lake Bark-ley on Tuesday for the Memorial Day weekend. Officials expect a large increase in boaters on the lakes for the holiday weekend.

Investigators looking into cause as friends, colleagues reminisce

Megibow

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Volunteer Caroline Korte reads with Ashanti Lee at McNabb El-ementary School.

“The main goals are improving students’ literacy level, improve attendance and improving discipline.”

Monique ZuberCommunity impact specialist

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WASHINGTON — A privately built space capsule that’s zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-prof-it space race.

The capsule called Dragon was due

to arrive near the space station for tests early Thursday and dock on Friday with its load of supplies. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — run by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk — was hired by NASA to deliver cargo and eventually astronauts to the orbital outpost.

And the space agency is hiring others, too.

Several fi rms think they can make mon-ey in space and are close enough to Musk’s company to practically surf in his space-ship’s rocket-fueled wake. There are now more companies looking to make money in orbit — at least eight — than major U.S.

Commercial space race getting crowdedBY SETH BORENSTEIN

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Murray State basketball fans can celebrate the team’s un-precedented season yet again Thursday night, this time alongside Coach Steve Prohm.

Fresh off a season worth re-membering — a 31-2 record and a run as the nation’s last undefeated basketball team — Prohm will autograph books and take pictures with fans from 5 to 7 p.m. at Paducah Bank’s Strawberry Hill loca-tion, 4575 Pecan Drive.

The fi rst-year coach will sign copies of “A Season To Remem-ber,” the commemorative book of Sun game reports, and work from seven photographers, that capture the essence of a Murray State season like no other.

“This will help make their book a little more special,” said Kendra Mitchell, Sun market-ing manager. “This truly was a season to remember and we

want to celebrate that and give folks a chance to meet Coach Prohm.”

Paducah Bank sponsored the Sun’s book and will help pro-vide the event’s festive features

and atmosphere.

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Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Dr., Call 442-8993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Learn to detect potential errors, fraud and abuse. Report errors or suspected fraud to SMP.

Paducah Toastmasters, noon, The Pasta House Co. Call Joe Shall-better at 506-1791 or Clay Camp-bell at 703-2700.

Downtown Kiwanis Club, lunch, noon , Elks Club, 310 N. Fourth St. 441-0825.

Paducah VA Clinic, 12:30-3:30 p.m., 2620 Perkins Creek Drive. Veterans and their families will be provided counseling and assistance in filing benefits. By appointment, walk-ins as time allows. 444-8465.

Mayfield Overeaters Anonymous meeting, 1:30 p.m., Christ United Methodist Church Recreation Hall, 1322 W. Broadway, Mayfield. Infor-mation: 247-7414.

Wine tasting to benefit St. Nich-olas Family Clinic, 5 p.m., Pasta House Co., 451 Jordan Drive.

Kiwanis Club of South Paducah, dinner meeting, 7 p.m. , 1640 S. Sixth St. Cathy Brown, 488-3363.

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Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, Call 442-8993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Learn to detect potential errors, fraud and abuse. Report errors or suspected fraud to SMP.

Steak night, 5-8 p.m., River City Eagles Aerie 3686, 1919 Cairo Road.

Fish fry, 5:30-8 p.m. , Paducah Elks Lodge 217, 310 N. Fourth St. $10.

Dance, 7-10 p.m. , American Le-gion Post 26 Hall, Mayfield. $5.

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The Agenda is a listing of govern-ment meetings today.

■ Murray City Council — 6:30 p.m., City Hall.

■ Paducah-McCracken Joint Sewer Agency — 5 p.m., meeting facility, Northview St.

■ Farley Elementary School SBDM — 8 a.m. Friday at the school.

■ Sharpe Elementary School SBDM — special session, 10 a.m. Friday, school library.

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Wednesday’s lotteryKentucky

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Repairs to the U.S. 68/Ky. 80 Eggner’s Ferry Bridge continue on track for reopening of the bridge in time for this weekend.

A Hall Contracting crew continued curb fi nishing work Wednesday along the replace-ment span deck and installa-tion of guardrail along the new driving surface, according to Keith Todd, District 1 high-way spokesman. Work crews also continued work to remove some of the wooden forms used

to pour the decking and curbs. Testing of samples taken dur-ing the concrete pour have shown all concrete used for the deck to exceed state strength specifi cations, he said.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet crews have continued placing conduit on the bridge. On Thursday, a team of KYTC bridge inspectors will conduct a detailed inspection of the new span.

The bridge crosses Kentucky Lake between Marshall and

Trigg counties. A 322-foot span was destroyed when struck by an 8,200-ton cargo ship on the night of Jan. 26. The Trans-portation Cabinet awarded an emergency contract for the re-pair project to Hall Contract-ing. The contract specifi es a deadline of Sunday for comple-tion of repairs and reopening the bridge to traffi c.

District 1 Chief Engineer Jim LeFevre said work remains on schedule to allow the bridge to open ahead of the midnight Sun-

day deadline for restoring traffi c.“We continue to be optimistic

the remaining fi nish work will be completed ahead of sched-ule,” LeFevre said. “However, at this point, it is diffi cult to predict a specifi c day and time for re-storing traffi c. We will continue to monitor progress on all fronts and will make an announce-ment as soon as possible.”

LeFevre said any number of additional issues could hamper progress on the bridge, includ-ing the weather.

Bridge repairs stay on track for reopeningSun staff report

The two people killed Tues-day in a wreck on Interstate 24 have been identifi ed.

Coroner Dan Sims said they are Robert A. Storrs, 30, of Durham, N.C., and Jessica R. Caroe, 27, of Houston.

Storrs and Caroe were killed when a tractor-trailer hit the motorcycle they were riding. The interstate was shut down for close to six hours to recon-struct the wreck.

Paducah police say that traf-fi c was stopped in the area be-cause of an unrelated wreck on the Ohio River bridge. A semi, driven by James M. Ho-erman, 60, of Antigo, Wisc., approached traffi c and clipped the side mirror of a Toyota Tundra, then ran over a Honda Shadow motorcycle that Storrs was driving. Hoerman then switched lanes and rear-ended another semi driven by Jeremy L. Wuels, 31, of Carlisle, Ill., ac-cording to Paducah police.

Hoerman and Wuels were taken to Western Baptist Hos-pital with minor injuries. Ac-cording to the police report, Hoerman told offi cer Beau Green that he did not no-tice traffi c in front of him and looked off the side of the road as he approached Exit 3. The report said Hoerman told po-lice that once he noticed traffi c

was stopped, he slammed on the brakes but couldn’t avoid hitting the other vehicles.

Police initially closed the in-terstate’s westbound lanes as far back as Hinkleville Road. They allowed traffi c through after sev-

eral hours, then opened the road at 10 p.m. Reconstruction teams spent most of that time analyzing the crash scene. Paducah police spokeswoman Robin Newberry said that details — including how fast the truck was going when it

reached still traffi c — wouldn’t be available until the investigation was complete.

Call Corianne Egan, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.

Coroner identifies wreck victimsBY CORIANNE EGANcegan@paducahsun.com

CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun

Paducah police officers block traffic leading up to a wreck on Interstate 24 on Tuesday. The wreck claimed the lives of two people after a semi-truck hit the motorcycle they were riding.

Prohm signing commemorative Racers book today

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Murray State basketball coach Steve Prohm will sign autographs and take pictures with fans from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Paducah Bank’s Strawberry Hill location at 4575 Pecan Drive.

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One more chance to celebrate ‘A Season To Remember’

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Thursday night will help celebrate a spe-cial team and a special cause, said Susan Guess, Paducah Bank marketing director.

The bank’s WOW wag-on will play the MSU fi ght song as photographers will take photos of fans celebrating and posing with Prohm, Guess said.

Among the giveaways and MSU memorabilia will be an important message. One dollar of each book sale goes to the Guess Anti-Bullying Fund in Prohm’s name.

“For someone like Coach Prohm to endorse our anti-bullying cause is so important,” Guess said. “And to have Mur-

ray State University get behind that, it brings some legitimacy from the education community to say a difference can be made. It lifts up our cause even more.”

“A Season To Remem-ber” costs $16 and will be available at the book signing. Guess said pro-ceeds have gone toward paying for a local speak-ing engagement with Jodee Blanco, author of “Please Stop Laughing at Me...”

A respected fi gure in the effort to stop school bullying, Blanco is set to visit Paducah the week of Aug. 20, Guess said.

“We really hope the community will come out and show Murray State pride,” Guess said.

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Despite a last-ditch cry for cash Wednesday, the McCracken Fiscal Court is standing by its initial plan to zero out the county’s funding contribution to EntrePaducah next year.

Executive director Terry Reeves and board chair-man Samuel Wright at-tended Wednesday’s bud-get meeting hoping to change the commissioners’ minds about deciding not

to budget any money to the organization, which seeks to recruit small businesses.

EntrePaducah formed three years ago under a three-year commitment from the city and county to help fund operations for $100,000 per year. Com-missioners say they have met that obligation and, while they support the mission of EntrePaducah and the job it has done, the county does not have enough money to fund the

effort next year.Judge-Executive Van

Newberry said the com-missioners will revisit the request for the following budget year, and he and the commissioners agreed to help in any way they can throughout the year, such as through providing matching funds for grants.

Newberry said the or-ganization reported it had $130,000 in an emergency fund and $240,000 in a savings account, equal-

ing $370,000 total. That surplus also prompted the commissioners to assume the organization could con-tinue to operate next year without a county subsidy.

Reeves said he under-stands the county’s budget constraints, but he said EntrePaducah needs to continue receiving support from the county to be suc-cessful.

“We would like to be rec-ognized by this body as im-portant and by important, I

mean give us whatever you can give us,” Reeves said.

The commissioners also did not raise a $75,000 subsidy to the McCracken County Convention Cen-ter Corporation to help with operating costs at the Julian M. Carroll and Paducah Expo centers de-spite the board’s request for $100,000.

Treasurer Angie Brown also reported that the Bar-kley Regional Airport’s an-nual subsidy was lowered

to $10,000 from the city and county next year, and commissioners agreed to give emergency manage-ment director Paul Carter a 6 percent raise.

The Fiscal Court will vote on the fi rst reading of the budget at its next regular meeting, set for Tuesday. The fi nal reading and pas-sage is set for June 11.

Call Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684.

County declines to budget for EntrePaducahBY MALLORY PANUSKAmpanuska@paducahsun.com

BARBOURVILLE — Po-lice in eastern Kentucky say they are looking for a sus-pect who attacked a man at a highway intersection.

Barbourville police said the assailant knocked Billy Mills out and then stomped his head into the pavement.

Police aren’t sure what led to the attack, but De-tective Steve Owen said it could be a case of road rage.

“Obviously if this is nothing more than a case of road rage it is some-thing that we need to be concerned about, some-body we need to identify and we need to deal with,” said Owens. “This is not the typical blowing their

horns, yelling at people and then going on.”

Owens said the two men were stopped at the intersection Saturday when the suspect began yelling at Mills.

The suspect “pulled around to the front of (Mills’) car, blocking him in, exited the pickup he was driving, when the victim opened the door and stepped out of the vehicle he was driving, he was assaulted by the other male,” Owens said.

Police say the suspect was driving a blue Chevy Z-71 extended cab pickup truck. He is described as a white man with a slen-der build who stands about 6-foot-3.

Police search for suspect in intersection beating

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LOUISVILLE — When Kentucky State Troopers stopped 49-year-old Rob-ert Dale Lee on Interstate 75 in September 2011, they knew he would be coming their way and what to look for in his truck.

The Drug Enforcement Administration had been following Lee’s truck from Chicago using a GPS — a tracking device placed on the vehicle as part of a multi-state drug probe — and

troopers found 150 pounds of marijuana in the vehicle.

Now, a federal judge has ruled the stash inadmis-sible in the case against Lee because the DEA and troop-ers didn’t have a warrant to place the device on the truck.

“In this case, the DEA agents had their fi shing poles out to catch Lee,” Thapar wrote. “Admittedly, the agents did not intend to break the law. But, they installed a GPS device on Lee’s car without a warrant

in the hope that something might turn up.”

Lee is charged with con-spiracy to distribute mari-juana. No trial date has been set. He remains in fed-eral custody at the Laurel County Detention Center.

Kyle Edelen, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s offi ce in Lexington, said prosecu-tors were reviewing the rul-ing and evaluating whether to appeal Thapar’s decision.

The U.S. Supreme Court in January struck down law

enforcement’s use of GPS tracking in investigations without a warrant. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the 5-member majority that it was the attachment of the device that violated the Fourth Amendment’s pro-tection against unreasonable searches and seizures. That case involved a GPS placed on the Jeep of suspected Washington, D.C., drug kingpin Antoine Jones. The ruling overturned Jones’ conviction and life sentence.

Judge: GPS illegal in Kentucky drug bustAssociated Press

Associated Press

Dinner of championsFormer Kentucky Derby and Preakness champion Smarty Jones grazes in a field at Northview Stallion Station in Peach Bottom, Pa., on Wednesday. Eight years ago, Smarty Jones was one race away from being horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner since 1978, just missing the feat when he came in second in the Belmont. Today, he lives a life of leisure.

Suspect in Maryland bank robbery arrested in Paducah

A woman wanted in connection with an armed bank robbery in Baltimore, Md., was arrested Tuesday after Paducah po-lice got information from the FBI that she was in the area. Joanie M. Conway, 22, was arrested in downtown Paducah.

Baltimore police allege Conway passed a note to an M&T Bank teller on March 22, saying she was armed and demand-ing money. The Baltimore County Bank Robbery Task Force said it identified Conway as a suspect after reviewing surveillance tapes at the bank. The FBI contacted Paducah police on Tuesday with information stating Conway was in the area with her boyfriend, and she was arrested at 2:30 p.m.

Conway was taken to McCracken Coun-ty Regional Jail, where she awaits extra-

dition to Maryland. She faces charges in Baltimore County of theft and armed rob-bery of less than $10,000.

— Staff report

State police adding 3D scanner

FRANKFORT — Jurors may be able to get a better idea of what a crime scene looked like with a state-of-the-art 3D scanner added to the Kentucky State Po-lice investigation toolbox.

The agency says the scanner provides a realistic view of crime scenes and crash sites.

The Leica ScanStation C10 was unveiled at a news conference Wednesday in Frank-fort. State police Commissioner Rodney Brewer says the agency is the first in Ken-tucky to buy and actively use the device.

— Associated Press

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Illinois state government’s gambling habit continues its downward spiral.

Like a problem gambler desperately attempting to wager his way out of debt, the state of Illinois grows ever more desperate to solve its economic problems with expanded gambling. Illinois lawmakers have introduced two bills to further expand gambling in a state that has proven there is no such thing as “limited gambling.”

One of the bills would add more casinos and allow slot machines at racetracks. The other bill would take advantage of the U.S. Justice Department’s decision last year to authorize states to legalize, regulate and tax Internet gambling.

Gov. Pat Quinn opposes both bills, calling them a “distraction” from the more pressing need to reform Medicaid and the state’s pension plans. The governor is right.

The sponsors are not dissuaded. They have a powerful ally in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, who says the slots revenue is needed for infrastructure projects.

But recent history shows the acceleration of gambling in Illinois parallels the decline of the state’s financial condition. It may not have been cause and effect, but the numbers reveal how expanded gambling has, despite proponents’ promises, thoroughly failed to prevent the state’s fiscal train wreck.

Voters approved the lottery in 1974. In 1993, riverboat gambling was

legalized, and the first riverboat casino, the Alton Belle, opened the following year. Five more casinos opened over the next three years, including Harrah’s in Metropolis. Today 10 casinos operate in Illinois.

Then, in 2009, the legislature authorized video gambling terminals at truck stops, veterans’ halls, fraternal clubs and “liquor establishments” from border to border.

Yet despite the additional

money, Illinois has seen its financial picture worsen. This year, Moody’s Investor Service downgraded Illinois’s credit rating to A2, the lowest of any state in the country. Moody’s said Illinois “took no steps to implement lasting solutions” to its debt and unfunded pension liabilities.

Apparently, ratings agencies don’t consider legalizing gambling on

every street corner a lasting solution to debt problems.

And raising the state income tax 67 percent and the corporate income tax 46 percent, which the legislature did in 2011, proved no solution either. With all the new revenue from gambling and higher taxes, the state is still borrowing money to pay its bills, still paying those bills months past due and still refusing to cut spending.

According to State Treasurer Dan Rutherford, the state has total debt, including unfunded liabilities in its pension systems, of $114 billion. “State government spending still unconscionably

outpaces revenue,” he said. “This situation is shameful.”

In March, Fitch Ratings ranked Illinois alongside Hawaii and Connecticut as the states with the worst debt burdens relative to residents’ personal income (Kentucky is close behind).

Legalizing Internet gambling won’t raise the revenue necessary to bail out Illinois. Nor will more casinos or slots at tracks. They would only dilute gambling revenue at existing outlets in an already saturated market.

The solution to the state’s debt burden is cutting spending and reforming the state pension system, not making another desperate attempt to generate more revenue from gambling.

Springfield lawmakers are in denial about their gambling addiction. And the taxpayers will pay the long-term price, much like the family of a problem gambler.

BOSTON — Blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, the Senate candidate and Harvard professor who cites “fam-ily lore” that she is 1/32nd Cherokee, was inducted into Oklahoma’s Hall of Fame last year. Her biography on oklahomaheritage.com says she “can track both sides of her family in Oklahoma long before statehood” (1907) and “she proudly tells everyone she encounters that she is ‘an Okie to my toes.’” It does not mention any Cherokee great-great-great-grandmother. A DVD of the induction ceremo-ny shows that neither Warren nor anyone else mentioned this.

The kerfuffl e that has earned Warren such sobri-quets as “Spouting Bull” and “Fauxcahontas” began with reports that Harvard Law School, in routine academic preening about diversity (in everything but thought), listed her as a minority faculty member, as did the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania when she taught there. She said some in her family had “high cheekbones like all of the In-dians do.” The New England Historic Genealogical Society said a document confi rmed the family lore of Warren’s Cherokee ancestry, but later backtracked. She has said she did not know Harvard was listing her as a minority in the 1990s, but Harvard was echo-ing her: From 1986 through 1995, starting before she came to Harvard, a directory published by the Association of American Law Schools listed her as a minority and says its listings are based on professors claiming minority status.

So, although no evidence has been found that Warren is part Indian, for years two universities listed her as such. She has identifi ed herself as a minority, as when, signing her name as “Elizabeth War-ren — Cherokee,” she submit-ted a crab recipe (Oklahoma

crabs?) to a supposedly Indian cookbook. This is a political problem.

A poll taken before this controversy found her Repub-lican opponent Scott Brown trouncing her on “likability,” 57 percent to 23 percent. Even Democrats broke for Brown 40-38. Now she is a comic fi gure associated with laugh-able racial preferences. She who wants Wall Street “held accountable” is accountable for two elite law schools ad-vertising her minority status. She who accuses Wall Street of gaming the fi nancial system at least collaborated with, and perhaps benefi ted from, the often absurd obsession with “diversity.”

How absurd? Warren says that for almost a decade she listed herself in the AALS directory as a Native Ameri-can because she hoped to “meet others like me.” This well-educated, highly paid, much-honored (she was a consumer protection adviser to President Obama) member of America’s upper 1 percent went looking for people “who are like I am” among Native Americans?

This makes perfect sense to a liberal subscriber to the central superstition of the di-versity industry, which is the premise of identity politics: Personhood is distilled not to the content of character but only to race, ethnicity, gender or sexual preference.

This controversy has dis-combobulated liberalism’s crusade to restore Democratic possession of the Senate seat the party won in 1952 with John Kennedy and held until

2010, when Brown captured it after Ted Kennedy’s death. Lofty thinkers and exasper-ated liberals consider the focus on Warren’s fanciful ancestry a distraction from serious stuff. (Such as The Washington Post’s nearly 5,500-word wallow in teenage Mitt Romney’s prep school comportment?) But Warren’s adult dabbling in identity politics is pertinent because it is, in all its silliness, applied liberalism.

The New York Times Maga-zine’s headline on its profi le of her — “Heaven Is a Place Called Elizabeth Warren” — suggests the chord she strikes with liberals. They resonate to identity politics of the sort Warren’s campaign tried when, on the defensive, it resorted, of course, to claim-ing victimhood. Playing the gender card, it insinuated that criticism of her adventures as a minority amounts to a sexist attack on an accomplished woman. But an accomplished woman, Susan Collins of Maine, the only Republican senator rated more liberal than Brown (who last year voted with his party only 54 percent of the time on parti-san issues), called this insinu-ation “patently absurd.”

Barack Obama, who in 2008 carried Massachusetts by almost 800,000 votes, will win here again, and a senior offi cial of Brown’s campaign thinks that in order to win Brown must run between 250,000 and 500,000 votes ahead of Romney. In the special election in Janu-ary 2010, Brown defeated a female opponent (women are 53 percent of Massachusetts voters) by 107,317 votes. He won independents 2-1.

The turnout this November, with Obama on the ballot, probably will be larger, less white and more Democratic. But just 0.3 percent of Massa-chusetts residents are Native Americans, even counting Warren.

EDITOR:As area director for the Paducah market

of the American Cancer Society, I would like to thank everyone for their generosity and support to our Relay For Life events thus far in 2012. More than 130 teams joined in this year’s events in Calloway, Carlisle, Critten-den, McCracken, Livingston and Trigg coun-ties and have raised $740,800 to help save lives and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays by helping people stay well, by helping people get well, by fi nding cures and by fi ghting back.

Numerous survivors walked the opening lap and inspired those currently battling cancer. And again, our luminaria ceremonies show our communities’ warmth and caring for those who are no longer with us. Many,

many Relay For Life volunteers, committee members and teams have worked to make this year’s events a success, along with the many businesses and sponsors who have sup-ported us, as well.

But there are still plenty of other Relay For Life events going on in our area next month, beginning June 1 with Relay events in Ful-ton and Hickman counties, and culminating June 8 at Ballard, Graves, Caldwell, Lyon and Marshall counties. I encourage you to be part of these events, support the teams and, more importantly, come out and support our cancer survivors, caregivers, friends, fami-lies, co-workers, neighbors and fellow church members who have been touched in some way by this disease.

For more information, call our offi ce in Paducah at 270-444-0384 or go online at www.cancer.org or www.relayforlife.org.

STEPHANIE ELDERAmerican Cancer Society

Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961

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NO WINIllinois won’t solve woeswith still more gambling

“State government spending still unconsionably

outpaces revenue. This situation is

shameful.”

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WASHINGTON — Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay.

With Congress unwilling to contemplate an increase in the federal gas tax, mo-torists are likely to be pay-ing ever more tolls as the government searches for ways to repair and expand the nation’s congested high-ways.

Tolling is less effi cient and sometimes can seem less fair than the main al-ternative, gasoline taxes. It can increase traffi c on side roads as motorists seek to evade paying. Some tolling authorities — often quasi-governmental agencies op-erating outside the public

eye — have been plagued by mismanagement. And some public-private part-nerships to build toll roads have drowned in debt be-cause of too-rosy revenue predictions.

Tolls are hardly a perfect solution. But to many states and communities, they’re the best option available.

“It’s very hard in this en-vironment for states to add capacity without charging a toll because they can’t af-ford to do it,” said Joshua Schank, president of the

Eno Center for Transporta-tion, a Washington think tank. “They’re barely able to maintain what they’ve got, and there is an urgent need for capacity.”

Some changes already are under way

In addition to the tolls allowed on Interstates in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast and Midwest, the U.S. has agreed to pilot toll projects on Interstate 95 in Virginia and North Carolina and on Interstate 70 in Mis-souri.

A commission created by Congress to recommend ways to pay for upkeep of the nation’s transportation system predicted in 2009 that the U.S. will face night-marish congestion unless it spends more. The commis-sion estimated all levels of government were spend-ing a cumulative $137 bil-lion less each year than is necessary to maintain and expand the current system. Without action, there will be a $2 trillion-plus backlog by 2035, it said.

It’s been nearly two de-cades since Congress last in-creased the federal gas and diesel taxes that have his-torically paid for highways. Meanwhile, the cost of road and bridge construction has gone up and the purchasing power of fuel taxes has de-clined by more than a third.

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Newly constructed roadways near completion Wednesday in Fairfax County, Va. Motorists may continue to pay heavy tolls as the government looks for ways to repair and expand highways.

States look to new tolls for highwaysBY JOAN LOWYAssociated Press “It’s very hard in this environment

for states to add capacity without charging a toll because they can’t

afford to do it.”Joshua Schank

President, Eno Center for Transportation

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In spite of efforts to crack down on the state’s pre-scription drug abuse epi-demic, a new report shows nearly 18 million prescrip-tions for controlled sub-stances such as OxyContin and hydrocodone were dispensed in Tennessee last year — a 23 percent increase from the previous year.

The surging fi gures in the report to the General Assembly are a setback for those fi ghting on the front lines of the prescription drug epidemic.

“We’re in jeopardy of losing an entire generation of our youth to addiction if we don’t get a grip on this,” said Tommy Farmer, an assistant special agent in charge of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. “I mean that sincerely.”

Tennessee has some of the highest rates of pre-scription drug abuse in the nation. An Associated Press analysis found that per capita, oxycodone sales increased fi ve- or six-fold in most of the state from 2000 to 2010.

The prescription drug epidemic is so bad in Ten-nessee that offi cials are

now projecting that re-quests for treatment for pill addiction will over-take alcohol by 2013, state Mental Health Commis-sioner Doug Varney said.

“I never thought in my career I would see that,” Varney said.

The number of drug overdoses is staggering, he said.

“We have more deaths from drug overdose in our state than car crashes or homicides or suicides,” Varney said.

There were 887 in Ten-nessee who died from drug overdose in 2010, the vast majority coming from pre-scription drug abuse, ac-cording to the latest fi gures provided by the Health Department. That’s up from 644 overdose deaths in 2005.

State law requires phar-macists and doctors to en-ter drug information into Tennessee’s Controlled Substance Database when they dispense pain medi-cines.

The number of prescrip-tions entered in the da-tabase in 2010 had actu-ally decreased from earlier years. In 2010, there were 13.7 million prescriptions entered, compared to 15.2 million in 2009.

Report: Pill prescriptions surging in Tennessee

BY SHEILA BURKEAssociated Press

DENVER — His cash ad-vantage threatened, Presi-dent Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republi-can rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning su-per PACs that are raking in cash from the party faithful highly motivated to topple the Democrat.

Obama still has a signifi -cant edge, but it’s shrinking rapidly.

That explains why the president, fresh off of back-to-back international sum-mits, plunged back into his re-election race Wednes-day with a series of fund-raising events in Denver and California’s Silicon Valley. The president was looking to stockpile cash to pay for his coast-to-coast organization, advertising to spread his message and get-out-the-vote opera-tions in key states.

“We’re going to have to

contend with even more negative ads, even more cynicism and nastiness and just plain foolishness,” Obama said in Denver. “But the outcome of the election is ultimately going to depend upon all of you.” A woman shouted, “We’ll just have to work harder.”

It’s the start of an exten-sive money push by Obama in the coming weeks that will feature a series of high-end fundraisers, including New York events with for-mer President Bill Clinton and actress Sarah Jessica

Parker and a Los Angeles trip to raise money among gay and lesbian supporters. Smaller-dollar pushes also are under way.

Obama, a record-shatter-ing fundraiser four years ago, has a built-in fund-raising advantage as the incumbent and still has a wide money lead over Romney, the challenger who only recently com-bined fundraising efforts with the Republican Na-tional Committee after a bruising — and expensive — primary.

Obama, Democrats redoubling fundraisingBY KEN THOMAS

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CAIRO — After a life-time of being told who will rule them, Egyptians dove enthusiastically into the uncertainty of the Arab world's fi rst competitive presidential race Wednes-day, wrestling with a po-larizing choice between secularists rooted in Hosni Mubarak's old autocracy and Islamists hoping to in-fuse the state with religion.

Waiting in long lines, vot-ers were palpably excited at the chance to decide their country's path in the vote, the fruit of last year's stun-ning popular revolt that overthew Mubarak after 29 years in power. For the past 60 years, Egypt's presidents ran unchallenged in yes-or-no referendums that few bothered to vote in.

Still, the choices raised worries among many about whether real democracy will emerge. The fi nal result, likely to come after a runoff next month, will only open a new chapter of political struggle.

Mohammed Salah, 26, emerged grinning from a poll station, fresh from cast-ing his ballot. “Before, they used to take care of that for me,” he said. “Today, I am choosing for myself.”

Medhat Ibrahim, 58, who

suffers from cancer, had tears in his eyes. “I might die in a matter of months, so I came for my children, so they can live,” he said, as he waited to vote in a poor Cairo district. “We want to live better, like human be-ings.” He later came out fl ashing a fi nger stained with the blue ink used to prevent multiple voting. “Mubarak's policies gave me cancer,” he said, refer-ring to the decline in health

care under the last regime. “Now I got my revenge.”

Adding to the drama, this election is up in the air. The reliability of polls is un-certain, and four of the 13 candidates have bounced around the top spots, leav-ing no clear front-runner. None is likely to win out-right in Wednesday and Thursday's balloting, so the top two vote-getters enter a run-off June 16-17, with the victor announced June 21.

The two secular front-runners are both veterans of Mubarak's regime — for-mer prime minister Ahmed Shafi q and former foreign minister Amr Moussa.

The main Islamist con-tenders are Mohammed Morsi of the powerful Mus-lim Brotherhood and Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, a moder-ate Islamist whose inclusive platform has won him the support of some liberals, left-ists and minority Christians.

Egyptians hold landmark voteBY HAMZA HENDAWI

AND LEE KEATHAssociated Press

Associated Press

Protesters raise their shoes as they heckle Egyptian presidential candidate and for-mer Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, unseen, as he arrives to vote at a polling site in Cairo Wednesday. Shafiq arrived to vote in an upscale neighborhood east of Cairo to protesters yelling “down with the feloul” or “remnants” of the regime.

BAGHDAD — Talks be-tween Iran and six world powers snagged Wednes-day over dueling proposals concerning Tehran's nucle-

ar program, a tug-of-war that pits international con-cerns about the Islamic Re-public's potential to build atomic weapons against enforcing crippling sanc-tions on its people.

The daylong back-and-

forth in Baghdad focused largely on whether the cur-rent enrichment level of Iran's uranium production is a red line the U.S. and other powers will not per-mit for fear it could become warhead-grade material.

At stake is the threat an Iran armed with nuclear weapons could pose to its neighbors. The U.S. and Israel have indicated readi-ness to attack Iran if diplo-macy and sanctions fail to curb its nuclear program.

Iran nuclear talks snag over dueling demandsBY ALI AKBAR DAREINI

AND LARA JAKESAssociated Press

World BriefTV presenter: Piers Morgan told me how to hack

LONDON — A prominent British TV presenter said Wednes-day that CNN talk show host Piers Morgan gave him a primer on phone hacking, a revelation that suggests he knew a fair amount about how the shady practice was carried out.

BBC quiz show host and television news presenter Jeremy Paxman told a media ethics inquiry that Morgan delivered his warning at the headquarters of the Mirror newspaper in 2002.

Paxman said that Morgan “turned to me and said, 'Have you got a mobile phone?'” “I said, 'yes,' and he asked if there was a security setting on the message bit of it. ... I didn't know what he was talking about. He then explained the way to get access to people's messages was to go to the factory default setting and press either 0000 or 1234 and that if you didn't put on your own code, (in) his words, 'You're a fool.'”

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close friend, and he’s go-ing to be greatly missed by more than just the legal community.”

Longtime Paducah at-torney and former com-monwealth attorney Mark Bryant said the news of Meg-ibow’s death was a shock. He reminisced about working with him on cases through the years. Bryant pointed out that it was always better to be on Megibow’s side in a courtroom as opposed to against him because of his profi ciency as an attorney.

Bryant said he knew that Megibow was an avid rugby player and sustained inju-ries after playing the sport for many years. Megibow also was a professional sculptor before he became an attorney, Bryant said.

“Tod had a lot of inter-

ests, he was a genuinely good guy. If he liked you, he really liked you,” Bryant said. “Even if you had an ar-gument with Megibow, fi ve minutes later, everything was fi ne. He was a nice guy, and I really will miss him.”

Albert Jones, a retired local attorney and former Paducah mayor, said he met Megibow shortly after he moved to Paducah in the 1980s and became fast friends with him. He said Megibow was a loyal, straight forward person and a great lawyer. Jones said he was very saddened by the new of Megibow’s death, but still looks back fondly on his good friend.

“I’m sad, but when I think of him I can’t help but have a little smile on my face,” he said. “I think that’s the way people feel about somebody they like really well.”

McCracken Circuit Judge Craig Clymer, who also worked closely with Megi-bow both as a judge and while working as a police offi cer years ago, called him a brilliant legal mind.

“He could recite cases and legal holdings of cases off the top of his head bet-ter than anyone I had run into,” Clymer said.

Seth Hancock, McCrack-en assistant common-wealth attorney, said on behalf of his offi ce Wednes-day that all of the employ-ees have Megibow in their thoughts and prayers and extend their condolences.

Funeral arrangements for Megibow were incom-plete Wednesday at Milner and Orr Funeral Home.

Call Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684.

always be on the lookout for other boats,” Clark said. “Out there you’re just on your own, so obey the rules of the water and be courte-ous to other boaters.”

According to U.S. Coast Guard national statistics, operator inattention was the leading factor in rec-reational boating mishaps last year. As both Kentucky and Barkley lakes remain several feet below sum-

mer pool, boaters need to pay close attention to submerged obstacles, said Deputy Jason Ivey, Mar-shall County Sheriff’s De-partment marine patrol.

“The low water levels that we’re still experiencing is defi nitely a concern of ours,” Ivey said. “A lot of people coming here, they see the open water and think they can just go for it, but in real-ity, the water might just be 2 or 3 feet deep.”

In addition to the lower

water levels, Clark also expressed concern for the weekend heat wave while people are out on the water and urged people to con-sider the amount of sun ex-posure they receive.

“We just ask that every-body be responsible while out on the water and enjoy the lake, so they can come back to it,” Ivey said.

Call Will Pinkston, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676.

PALS stands for partners and literacy support, Zu-ber said. Adult volunteers must have a background check to volunteer, but after that there are no de-fi ning characteristics that make a great reading pal, she said.

Brian Morrow, In-dependence Bank as-sistant vice president, heard about the program through previous work with the United Way. Ini-tially, his meetings were intimidating, Morrow said. He didn’t know what to say to his reading bud-dy, but they soon devel-oped a rapport. Morrow said he’s grown more than his reading buddy has. They talk about sports, their family lives and aca-demic integrity.

Being a volunteer is a commitment, Morrow said. It’s an hour a week away from the offi ce with total focus on an elemen-tary school student.

Deanna Caldwell and Elisha Anderson have sec-ond-grade students par-ticipating in the program. Caldwell said her daughter was a good reader before she started, but she’s gone far beyond grade level. What most impressed her was her daughter’s new-found love for reading. Caldwell said she is thank-ful for volunteers who are willing to help.

“I’m grateful that some-one else can go do that when

I’m at work and it’s diffi cult to get away,” she said.

Anderson’s son was shy when he started the program. His reading has increased noticeably, but it’s his confi dence that Anderson notices most.

“He’s always been very quiet” she said.

“When he is having a discussion with adults or asking questions, he seems very mature. I think it’s defi nitely given him that boost he needed.”

Call Rebecca Feldhaus, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651.

airlines still fl ying.Private space compa-

nies have talked for years about ferrying goods and astronauts for NASA, but this is the fi rst time one is actually in orbit and about to make a delivery for the space agency.

“Dragon is not the only entrant in commercial car-go,” said Jeff Greason, pres-ident of XCOR Aerospace, which specializes in the also busy suborbital market-place. “They have competi-tors nipping at their heels.”

Still, Dragon’s launch is “the spark that will ignite a fl ourishing commercial spacefl ight marketplace,” said Michael Lopez-Alegria,

the president of the Com-mercial Spacefl ight Federa-tion and a former astronaut.

Hiring Musk’s SpaceX and other private compa-nies is a key part of NASA’s plan to shift focus. Instead of routine fl ights to the space station with the now retired space shuttles, NASA is aim-ing further out to places like asteroids and Mars. After this test fl ight, SpaceX has a contract with NASA for a dozen delivery runs.

The idea is to “let pri-vate industry do what it does best and let NASA tackle the challenging task of pushing the boundary further,” NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garv-er said last week.

NASA has given seed

money and contracts to several companies to push them on their way. But eventually, space missions could launch, dock to a private space station or hotel and return to Earth and not have anything to do with NASA or any other country’s space agency.

Another space launch-and-tourism company, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is working sepa-rately from NASA and the space station.

If NASA isn’t involved, there is one federal agency that is. The Federal Aviation Administration has a com-mercial space offi ce that licenses private space mis-sions and works with NASA to set safety standards.

WILL PINKSTON | The Sun

Sailboats remain lashed to their moorings Tuesday at Lighthouse Landing in Grand Rivers. Officials expect a large recreational boater turnout on the lakes as Memorial Day weekend nears.

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Reading PALS volunteer Kent Price reads to McNabb Elementary School student T’Angelo Hender-son. The program started at McNabb and will expand to Clark, Morgan and Farley elementary schools in the 2012-2013 school year.

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Belleville, IL 88 65 s 90 67 pcBowling Gn., KY 88 66 s 92 66 sBristol, TN 84 57 t 89 60 pcC. Girardeau, MO 90 67 s 92 64 sCarbondale, IL 92 67 s 89 66 sCharleston, WV 84 60 t 91 63 pcChattanooga, TN 89 64 pc 91 66 sClarksville, TN 90 66 s 90 65 sColumbia, MO 88 66 s 87 69 pcEvansville, IN 90 67 s 91 65 sFt. Smith, AR 88 70 s 90 68 pcHopkinsville, KY 90 67 s 91 66 sIndianapolis, IN 88 67 s 87 67 pcJackson, KY 85 67 pc 90 67 pcJackson, TN 90 67 s 91 65 sJoplin, MO 85 70 pc 87 70 pcKansas City, MO 84 65 pc 83 69 pcKnoxville, TN 85 62 pc 90 63 sLexington, KY 86 64 s 89 67 pcLittle Rock, AR 92 69 s 92 69 pcLondon, KY 85 61 s 90 63 pcLouisville, KY 88 69 s 91 70 pcMemphis, TN 90 69 s 93 72 sNashville, TN 90 66 pc 92 67 sPeoria, IL 86 62 pc 88 67 tSt. Louis, MO 88 69 s 91 71 pcSpringfi eld, IL 88 65 s 89 66 tSpringfi eld, MO 86 67 s 88 68 pcTerre Haute, IN 88 67 s 88 66 pc

National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will continue to erupt in the East today. Heat will build from the South Central states into the Midwest. Locally severe thunderstorms will affect part of the Upper Midwest. Showers will stretch from the Northwest to the northern Plains. Under sunshine, winds will kick up some dust over the Southwest.

Cairo 40 23.02 -1.61

Paducah 39 14.59 +0.54Owensboro 38 10.70 +0.10

Lake Barkley 356.7 357.25 -0.10Kentucky Lake 356.7 357.38 +0.23

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

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