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Thomas, Walter (Sc 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 479. Certificate of appointment for Walter Thomas as Coroner of Warren County, 1812, and certificate of appointment as Justice of the Peace in Warren County, 1814. Both certificates are signed by Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky.

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records - Licenses, 1832-1878 (Sc 2549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2549. Lists of licenses issued by Warren County, Kentucky for horses and jacks used for breeding purposes; taverns; persons selling playing cards; and coffee houses. Chronological lists include licensee, name of horse/jack, type of license, and fee.

Harris, Lucy Josephine, 1884-1977 - Collector (Sc 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 377. Slave bill of sale, Warren County, Kentucky, 1817; legal papers concerning lots sold in Franklin, Kentucky, 24 April 1820, and appointment of first trustees of Franklin, 13 December 1820; and contract with subscribers’ list for school to be taught at Sulphur Spring in Simpson County, Kentucky, 1867.

Butler County, Kentucky - Tax Book (Mss 394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 394. Tax book, 1884-1886, for Butler County, Kentucky, containing taxpayers’ names, town and nearest neighbor (in some cases), assessed value of land and personal property, and tax paid.

Petition - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 295. Petition signed by taxpayers in Bowling Green, Kentucky, requesting the Board of Trustees to construct a needed footway near the market house.

Beech Grove, Kentucky - Records (Sc 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 348. Letters, legal papers, and receipts, 1902-1916 (52), of Beech Grove, McLean County, Kentucky; and journal containing the town’s ordinances, 1894-1901, minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1894-1901, accounts received and expended, and listing of road hands, 1895.

Can Drug Court Results Be Predicted? Completion And Termination Of Drug Court Participants, Christopher D. Geisler

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The substantial growth in Kentucky’s prison population since the 1980s has resulted in increased spending on corrections, both the total amount and as a percentage of total general fund spending. The sustained growth in corrections spending combined with shrinking budgetary realities has created an incentive to explore ways to reduce costs without compromising public safety. Community supervision programs are one alternative to addressing this problem. They are an attractive approach to dealing with certain types of criminals because the cost is significantly lower than incarceration. Drug courts are an example of community supervision that allows drug offenders to avoid imprisonment …

Adequate Yearly Progress And Dropouts: An Analysis Of Kentucky High Schools & Districts, Michelle Schardein

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Education accountability measures, especially since the passage of No Child Left Behind, have been assessed for a variety of factors in empirical research. A large portion of this literature finds that overall, accountability measures increase performance, but also increase the achievement gap. These findings have inspired this research to examine what other marginal groups of students have been affected by the unintended reaction to the consequence-based incentives found in minimum competency accountability programs, such as No Child Left Behind.

In particular, this research looks at how the changes in a high school or school district’s Adequate Yearly Progress marks affect …

Characteristics Of Kentucky Agricultural Operations Participating In Nrcs Conservation Programs, Carmen T. Agouridis

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The Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) designs and promotes a wide variety of conservation practices and programs that enhance the environment by reducing soil erosion, improving water quality, and enhancing and creating wildlife habitat. The impact of these practices and programs is largely dependent on the voluntary participation of landowners. Thus, central to the success of the NRCS conservation programs is an understanding of the characteristics of landowners and operations participating in these programs.

Using operator and operation characteristics from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 Censuses of Agriculture and controlling for county fixed effects, this study 1) identifies significant characteristics …

An Exploratory Study Of Parking In A Lexington Neighborhood, Ed Mccarthy

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This study looked to test parking utilization rates in the Linden Walk, Aylesford Place and Transylvania Park (300 Block) neighborhood, while also studying resident perceptions of parking. It was concluded that Transylvania Park’s Residential Permit Parking resulted in underutilization of parking, while Linden Walk and Aylesford Place’s free on-street parking resulted in overutilization of parking due to spillover from the University of Kentucky. The purpose of the study was to determine if Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government should invest the resources to conduct an official parking study of the aforementioned Lexington neighborhood.

A comparison of research findings from this neighborhood against …

Educational Migration: Brain Drain In Kentucky, Dustin Pugel

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Kentucky has been steadily growing in its bachelor degree holder production over the past ten years, with almost 4500 more college degree holders produced per year in 2010 than in 2000. The literature has shown that this is good news for the economic growth prospects of the state, because a more highly skilled work force means a higher potential for production. This newly educated workforce, however, will not help Kentucky to grow if they take those skills elsewhere.

Using five-year American Community Survey data for Kentuckians over the age of 17, I was able to determine that Kentucky is not …

Scott, Charles, 1739-1813 (Sc 217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 217. Appointment of Reuben Leach as Justice of the Peace for Lincoln County, Kentucky signed by Governor Charles Scott 15 July 1811. The seal of the state of Kentucky is affixed.

Breathitt, John 1786-1834 (Sc 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 216. Appointment of Charles F. Burton as Justice of the Peace for Mercer County, Kentucky signed by Governor John Breathitt, 18 November 1833. The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.

Metcalfe, Thomas, 1780-1855 (Sc 215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 215. Appointment of William Guthrie as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Thomas Metcalfe, 13 November 1831? Kentucky state seal is affixed.

Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 212. Notary public commission of Gabriel Tandy, Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor John Adair and Secretary of State Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, 8 November 1821. The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.

Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 213. Appointment of Thomas Freeman as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Christopher Greenup and Secretary of State John Rowan, 6 December 1804.

Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842 (Sc 214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 214. Appointment of James Harlan as Justice of the Peace for Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Joseph Desha, 28 June 1827. The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.

Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 138. Response and counterproposal of Alexander Barnett, Sr., to an 1816 Ohio County, Kentucky Court subpoena to explain his objection to the establishment of a road through his land. Includes typescript of a 1934 newspaper article about a commemorative marker at Barnett's Station in Ohio County.

Warren County Citizens For Managed Growth (Mss 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 355. By-laws, minutes, newsletters, correspondence and other material related to WCCMG, an organization founded to deter development of the Kentucky Trimodal Transpark, located near the rural community of Oakland in Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes information about Oakland, Kentucky. A bibliography of newspaper articles about the Kentucky Trimodal Transpark is included. To access the bibliography click on "Additional File" below.

Establishing Long-Term Cost Effectiveness Of Fema Buyouts: A Loss Avoidance Study Of The Acquisition/Demolition Of 22 Properties In Shepherdsville, Kentucky, Esther White

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Kentucky has 1500 square miles of surface water and 1500 miles of navigable waterways. Fifty-one of the 120 county seats are located on rivers, and over 25 percent of the state’s population lives along waterways. Not surprisingly, flooding is the most common natural hazard in Kentucky, and many structures have been built over the years in floodplain areas. Although many local ordinances have been enacted across the State in recent years to limit new construction in these areas, existing structures still experience frequent flood damages. These structures are required by the federal government to maintain flood insurance, and the National …

The 2011 American State Litter Scorecard:New Rankings For An Increasingly Environmentally Concerned Population, Stephen [Steve] L. Spacek

Stephen [Steve] L Spacek

By popular demand--a NEW, up-to-date State Litter "Scorecard" is now released for the 2011 ASPA Baltimore event--measuring each state’s overall environmental quality through public property/spaces debris removal efforts. The “CARD” uses tried-and-true, hard-to-publicly obtain objective and subjective measures, leading to a total overall score for each measured jurisdiction. Readers can thus gain a realistic "picture" of "what's going on" within one or all of the 50 states. Littering/dumping remains harmful, serious American environmental crimes, creating dangers to public health and safety, and contributing to the deaths of over 800 Americans in debris-attributed motor vehicle accidents. The first, original 2008 Scorecard …

Competition Among Public Schools: An Analysis Of Kentucky Public Elementary Schools, Sarah L. Burns

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This study relied on data gathered on school identifiers and characteristics, student and teacher characteristics, and index scores of Kentucky public elementary schools, collected from 2001-2008 at the school level. An extensive literature review was completed in order to examine the effects of competition on public schools, both positive and negative.

This paper focused on the impact of public school competition on academic index scores in Kentucky school districts. Competition was measured in two ways: by the number of schools available per student in the district as well as the total district enrollment controlling for the total number of schools …

An Examination Of Compressed Natural Gas For Use In Municipal Fleets: Would Cng Work For Lexington, Ky?, Robert Kahne

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Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is an alternative fuel source which could replace diesel as a fuel for municipal fleets. This paper seeks to examine the viability of CNG and its potential to power Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government’s fleet of waste removal trucks. This paper takes into account financial and environmental factors in determining CNG’s potential, but gives priority to financial considerations. The results of this analysis are mixed—under some future scenarios, compressed natural gas would be a favorable option for the fleet, but given other future scenarios, CNG would not be viable. In terms of environmental benefits, a switch to …

"Courting" Time: Assessing The Policy And Planning Issues Related To Adoption Of Case Processing Standards In The Kentucky Judicial System, John B. Dobson

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Local E-Government Trends: Evaluating The Adoption And Sophistication Of Kentucky City Websites, Kevin Klosterboer

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With the prevalence of internet technologies and e-commerce, citizens’ expectations for online e-government services are growing. Numerous studies have been conducted on the worldwide adoption and sophistication of national governments’ e-government websites and state websites in the United States, but previous studies of local governments have been limited to looking at nationwide samples of the largest cities. By presenting a statewide analysis of all Kentucky city websites, I expect that my findings will provide valuable information about how cities of all sizes are using web-technologies to provide services to their citizens. I examine which types of cities, organized along several …

Local Economic Development: Researching Clusters In Woodford County, Kentucky, Tom Middleton

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Woodford Tomorrow, a citizen economic development planning group in Woodford County, is interested in promoting cluster development. Clusters are a geographic concentration of businesses and institutions which interact and collaborate within a particular economic sector. This report provides quantitative analysis of three clusters: (1) health, (2) agriculture, and (3) arts, entertainment, and tourism. The majority of this data comes from the consulting firm Economic Modeling Specialists Inc.

The agriculture cluster has many industries, specifically in the crop and animal production and manufacturing sectors, which appear to be potential industries to target. The hotel and motel industry seems to be an …

Examining Kentucky Public Schools: Gender Differences In An Index Measure Of Accountability For Academic Standards, Khin Thazin Myint

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The Kentucky public education system has made progress over the past 20 years after a number of reforms beginning in 1990. A stated goal of these reforms has been not only to improve the overall performance of students in a school, but to also ensure that no student groups be allowed to fall behind. To accomplish this, the state has adopted and implemented goals that are shared with those of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, including school accountability and a goal of proficiency for all students by the year 2014. However the most recent analysis of three statewide …

An Analysis Of Bachelor's Degree Production By Kentucky Public 4-Year Universities: Before And After The Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act Of 1997, Jonathan Pruitt

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With the passage of the Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997, Governor Paul Patton and the Kentucky General Assembly sought to improve the standard of living and quality of life in the state through increasing the educational attainment of its citizens. The production of bachelor’s degrees by the state’s public four-year universities is a key driver in increasing educational attainment and, therefore, meeting the goals of the legislation. This paper uses interrupted time series regression analysis to evaluate whether Kentucky public four-year universities have increased the rate at which bachelor’s degrees are produced in the period of time since the …

An Analysis Of Quality Of Life Findings Among Money Follows The Person Program Beneficiaries, Mitch F. Ruscitti

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This study will examine the quality of life survey findings of 154 recipients of services provided through the Kentucky Money Follows the Person program. In order to accomplish this, the term „quality of life‟ must first be defined and examined from the viewpoint of its role in the provision of health related services. Also, as a point of reference, a brief background concerning the Money Follows the Person program and its development will be provided. Lastly, after „quality of life‟ is defined for the purposes of this study, 183 surveys (154 baseline and 29 follow up) will be statistically analyzed …

The Incidence Of Hip Fracture Associated With Proton Pump Inhibitor (Ppi) And/Or H2 Receptor Antagonist (H2ra) Use In The Kentucky Medicaid Population, Timothy C. Umeh

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No executive summary.