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CLASS ACT CuT off County High announces Southwest U.S. has sun for student officers. solar, but lacks lines. GLEANER JR., 7B INSIDE, Page 6A Thursday TheGleaner September 20, 2012 HENDERSON, KENTUCKY © No. 249, 128th year 75¢ Foster Options offered for tax reform execution By Roger Alford ■■ business growth, reten- Associated press e conomists eye state levies ranging from food tion, and recruitment” date set without making changes. FRANKFORT — Economic to funerals; panel will make recommendations Other options noted by consultants looking for the economists include ex- ways to reform Kentucky’s Blue Ribbon Commission growth, and changes are considered a sacred cow,” tending the state sales tax Tuesday tax system offered a vari- on Tax Reform to consider. needed to improve Ken- said Farmer, one of the to selected services and in- ety of options Wednesday That commission will tucky’s economic competi- state’s leading proponents creasing taxes on pension that include imposing a make recommendations tiveness.” of tax reform. “But it’s a and retirement income. ■■ Attorney sales tax on food and on a to Gov. Steve Beshear and Lawmakers in Kentucky $500 million sacred cow. The consultants pointed variety of services ranging lawmakers by Nov. 15 on a have been unwilling to That’s a lot of money.” out that some options, in- vows appeal from haircuts to automo- tax system overhaul. tax groceries, and, with University of Kentucky cluding a sales tax on ser- tive repairs to funerals. “Two basic points come few exceptions, they have economist Michael Chil- vices, could increase the By Beth Smith One of those consul- from our analysis of Ken- spared most services. dress said the state could burden on lower-income gleaner staff tants, University of Ken- tucky’s tax system,” the State Rep. Bill Farmer, face a $1 billion shortfall by households. That could tucky economics professor economists said in a re- R-Lexington, said taxing 2020 without fundamental be mediated by adopting a For the fourth time in William Hoyt, emphasized port to the commission. “A food and services would tax reforms. He said the state-level earned income less than two years, a for- that the ideas were only broader tax base is needed be a monumental policy state “could find itself at a tax credit. mer Henderson County options, not recommen- so that revenue can keep change. competitive disadvantage man has been given an ex- dations, for the Governor’s pace with future economic “I think food could be to neighboring states for See tAxeS, 8A ecution date. Cleve “Duke” Foster III, 48, is scheduled to be ex- ecuted in a Texas prison Constitutional scholars on Tuesday in connection Flu shots with the rape/murder of a 30-year-old Sudanese woman. Officials said the crime occurred in Fort in order Worth more than 10 years ago. In 2011, the U.S. Su- preme Court stopped for almost Foster’s scheduled lethal injection three separate times. The last stay of ex- everyone ecution occurred roughly a year ago and came about By Judy Jenkins 2 1/2 hours before Foster, a gleaner correspondent former Army recruiter, could have been taken to That old saying about an the Texas death chamber. ounce of prevention being The high court halted worth a pound of cure is last September’s execu- especially true when it tion while reviewing Fos- comes to influenza, which ter’s petition that he had annually hospitalizes ineffective assistance of some 200,000 Americans counsel. and takes the lives of “Mr. Foster made his 20,000 to 40,000. request based on two The “ounce of preven- pending Supreme Court tion” is a flu shot, which is cases dealing with claims offered by the Henderson of ineffective assistance County Health Depart- ...,” according to Assistant ment today and again on Criminal District Attorney Oct. 11. Steve Conder with the Tar- The health department, rant County Prosecutors located at 472 Klutey Park Office in Texas. In March, Plaza, is devoting both the Supreme Court denied days — from 8 a.m. until Mike LAwRence / The GLeAneR Foster’s petition, he said. 4:30 p.m. — exclusively to South Middle School students, from left, Jaci Bickett, Brooklynn Frederick and Leah whitesides present a play on the constitu- Foster’s defense attor- the immunizations, and tion at wednesday’s constitution week celebration held at the henderson county courthouse. ney, Maurie Levin, said an urges those age 18 and appeal has been filed in over to receive the shot the Fifth Circuit Court of on either of those days. Appeals, again contending The agency has a separate ineffectiveness of counsel. Vaccines for Children pro- Document may indicate Jesus was married “If they deny the appeal, gram, and children will we will appeal to the Su- not be given the flu shot i n this photo released preme Court and they will during the two flu clinic by harvard Universi- ■■ s ome believe writing issue some type of ruling days. ty, divinity professor before Tuesday,” she said. The cost of the inocula- karen L. king holds on papyrus fragment fraud Foster, who grew up in tion is $29, but individuals a fourth-century Henderson and is a gradu- who have Medicare Part B fragment of papyrus By Nicole Winfield ate of Henderson County or Medicaid coverage will that she says is the Associated press High School, was one of have the fee covered. only existing ancient two men convicted and Jeanie Hardy, health de- text that quotes Jesus ROME — Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that sent to death row for kill- partment nursing supervi- explicitly referring to Jesus had a wife authentic? ing Nyanuer “Mary” Pal, sor, said drop-ins will be having a wife. king, Scholars on Wednesday questioned the an immigrant from Sudan. accommodated, but those an expert in the his- much-publicized discovery by a Harvard Her body was found in a who make a reservation tory of christianity, scholar that a 4th century fragment of papy- ditch by pipeline workers for one of the 15-minute says the text contains rus provided the first evidence that some early in Fort Worth in February time slots throughout a dialogue in which Christians believed Jesus was married. 2002. each flu clinic day will be Jesus refers to “my And experts in the illicit antiquities trade Foster’s associate, Shel- served first. wife,” whom he iden- also wondered about the motive of the frag- don Ward, died in prison Reservations can be tified as Mary. king ment’s anonymous owner, noting that the in 2010 of cancer. made by phoning the agen- says the fragment of document’s value has likely increased amid According to court cy at 826-3951. coptic script is a copy the publicity of the still-unproven find. documents from the Court People who have diffi- of a gospel, probably Karen King, a professor of early Christi- of Criminal Appeals in culty walking can receive written in Greek in anity at Harvard Divinity School, announced Texas, Foster and Ward the second century. See Flu, 8A ASSOciateD PReSS See pApyRuS, 8A See FoSteR, 8A INDEX RECYCLING Advice, 6B This Lane of southbound bridge online Don’t be left out: Business, 5B is A week for city recyclers. tv schedules, comics, IN www. theGleaner.com That means those living south CLASSI fIEDS of Second Street should place closed today; delays possible crosswords, their recyclable materials curbside this evening or IN CLASSIfIEDS Gleaner staff 79˚/54˚ before 6 a.m. Friday. nience Store. The work zone will have deAths, 2A A mixture of sun and a 45-mile-per-hour speed limit along the locAl & region, 3A clouds, breezy and One lane of the southbound U.S. 41 entire length of the bridge. lotteries, 2A warmer today, high NAtIoN Twin Bridge will be closed much of today The work zone will be removed at 3 The Justice Department’s and tonight, according to the Kentucky p.m. today to allow normal traffic flow on movie times, 6B near 80. Rain chances internal watchdog faulted Transportation Cabinet. the southbound bridge during the after- sports, 1B-4B return Friday with the agency for errors in A contractor for the state will be replac- noon commute, according to the cabinet. sudoku, 6B temperatures holding in judgment during a bungled ing two rocker bearings on a bridge pier Lane restrictions are then expected to the 70s. gun-trafficking probe. on the Henderson side of the span. be back on the bridge from 7 tonight until Page 5A Full forecast, 8B Southbound motorists should be pre- 5 a.m. Friday. pared to encounter lane restrictions be- Should the work require, lane restric- Printed partially tween 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. today. All south- tions may also be up on the bridge from on recycled bound traffic in this work zone will move 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday. paper with SOY ink to the left-hand passing lane starting near No northbound lane restrictions will the entrance to the Trocadero Conve- be required. 2A » Thursday, September 20, 2012 » THE GLEANER Deaths Programmer charged with hacking Toyota website ■■ Man issued commands made by Toyota in a lawsuit filed cessed Toyota’s internal computer Joseph Wayne Greenwell in federal court in Lexington last system without authorization, the SEBREE — Joseph Wayne Greenwell, 69, Sebree, died to slow functions of servers month. Toyota won a preliminary FBI and Toyota allege. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, at Regional Medical Center in injunction to keep Shahulhameed, Toyota also alleges that Shahulha- Madisonville. By Brett Barrouquere a native of India, from leaving the meed possibly copied, downloaded He was a member of Sebree Christian Church.