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Today's Opinions

  • Free will pays off or you pay for it

    The recent events in Cleveland at first left me perplexed.

    Ariel Castro held three women captive, one for at least 10 years, and his neighbors never knew it nor suspected it.

    Castro allegedly fathered a child with one of his captives, made the woman give birth in a kiddie pool and not one neighbor heard a thing.

    Residents who lived in the neighborhood never suspected a thing from the bus driver/musician who played baseball with children at local parks.

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  • General Assembly has come a long way with innovation

    By Rick Rand

     

    Kentucky has gotten a lot of attention over the years when it comes to finding innovative ways to govern.  Our education reforms of the 1990s were hailed as national models, for example, and we are the only state to permanently dedicate half of our annual tobacco settlement payments to agriculture, a move that has played a key role in the industry’s record sales in recent years.

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  • Paying your respects

    While visiting the cemetery you may notice the headstones marking certain graves have coins on them left by previous visitors to the grave. These coins have distinct meaning when left on the headstones of those who have served or have given their life while serving in America’s military and these meanings vary depending on the denomination of coin.

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  • Get off the couch or share the blame

    The makeover of Eminence seems to be on everyone’s minds these days.

    This paper has provided a good deal of coverage on the demolition of the old buildings and the coming of the new.

    It is, as it should be, a big deal—these changes will drastically affect the appearance of the town as well as its economy. Some folks are fine with what’s going on. Some are not.

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  • The sign and signs

    On a recent Monday morning, one of Donna’s friends stopped by the house to pick her up.  They were headed to Paducah for the annual quilt show held in that city.  I helped Donna load her luggage into her friend’s car and waved them off.

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  • Innovation and motivation

    If you have watched the news recently you know the space industry has moved from the government to the private sector. With this shift, humanity has a tremendous opportunity to secure the survival and expand the potential of our species. But the companies working on space travel need your interest in the subject to have the market motivation to pursue it.

    Several companies such as SpaceX, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin have started testing and developing the next generation of spacecraft and have even sent supplies to the International Space Station.

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  • Sheriff and others to be commended

    On Saturday, April 27, Henry County Sheriff Danny Cravens participated in the national Drug Take Back Day.

    He and several of his deputies volunteered their time to host the event, which encourages citizens to bring their unwanted or unused prescription medications to a specific location for safe disposal. This protects the homeowner in a number of ways, including theft prevention.

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  • Silos stand as sentinels

    Occasionally, one must relearn things.

    I don’t mean material involving geometry, geography or units of measure. I mean the things in life which not just add to and enhance your life but sometimes provide a perspective that divides you from people in it.

    See, I have this terrible, tortuous almost self-indulgent obsession with philosophy. I carried that interest from early childhood over into college. So much, that I decided it should be one of my minors. 

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