Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Rock Fight: Kentucky wants its big rock back


Kentucky - When an Ohio historian helped pull a massive sandstone boulder from the bottom of the Ohio River this summer, he didn't think it would set off a charged dispute between Kentucky and Ohio.
It did.
Rep. Reginald Meeks, D-Louisville, who is a member of Kentucky's Native American Heritage Commission, is sponsoring a resolution in the Kentucky General Assembly that condemns the rock's removal and calls for its return to Kentucky.
"Basically, this was a raid," Meeks said of efforts to extract the rock and take it to Portsmouth, Ohio. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace