| April 23: Our readers write
The Senate committee on Science, Commerce and Transportation will have a session April 25 about the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. The committee may debate, amend or rewrite the proposed legislation and may vote on whether to send the bill to the Senate floor for consideration.Take a moment to let your senators know that you oppose S.311 and to review the facts about horse slaughter. This country and particularly Kentucky cannot afford to let emotional rhetoric of animal rights groups overwhelm reasoning. Horse processing is necessary to the horse industry. It ensures that a humane, federally supervised end-of-life option is available for unwanted horses. Here are a few reasons why: If the bill is passed, 100,000 unwanted horses a year will have no home and the animal rights groups supporting legislation have offered no solutions on how to care for them.
State bids on line for locals
For the A&M Consolidated and Bryan golfers and tennis players, the road to state goes through Waco, where the locals must navigate rugged Class 5A Region II tournaments this week. The regional tennis tournament will be played Tuesday and Wednesday, starting at the Waco Regional Tennis Center and finishing at the Baylor Tennis Center. Consolidated will send 11 entries to the regional meet, while Bryan will be represented by two players. In golf, the girls will play their regional at Cottonwood Creek Golf Course on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Consol team and two individuals from Bryan will compete. The boys golf regional will be played at Bear Ridge Golf Course on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Tigers qualified as a team, and they will be joined by one Viking playing as a medalist.
Foot Locker bids for Genesco
Foot Locker Inc., which wants to expand into the specialty footwear sector, went public Friday with an unsolicited $1.2 billion cash bid for retailer Genesco Inc. The $46-per-share bid represents a 26 percent premium to Genesco's average share price in the one-year period prior to April 4, when Foot Locker first sent a letter to Nashville-based Genesco expressing takeover interest. .
Troubled waters ahead for Indian River Inlet bridge
Just when it seemed the Indian River bridge project was finally moving forward, controversy has erupted over the bidding process to construct the $130 million structure over the inlet. And the bid has not even officially been awarded.
Darrel Cole, director of Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) public relations, said the bidding process is under review by the governor’s office.
State labor officials are questioning the bidding process, and the possibility of legal action looms.
Union officials said the awarding of the apparent winning bid to the team of PCL Civil Contractors Inc. and Buckland & Taylor Inc. of Tampa, Fla., is questionable, Bridge
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based on a point system used to evaluate the bid.
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