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Today's Opinions

  • A lesson in holding on

    Her name is Kate, although that’s not her real name.
    Kate’s mother left when Kate was young, leaving her dad to care for Kate and her younger brother, with help from Kate’s grandmother.
    Kate never knew why her mom left, and even if she did, how could she ever even begin to understand it?
    When Kate was a teenager, she started going to a church — an unhealthy, abusive church. By that I mean that the pastor had absolute authority, strict and legalistic. He used fear and intimidation and church members did whatever the pastor said.

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  • Joint committees meeting

    The interim period is upon us! This is the time between the regular legislation sessions during which committees meet jointly with both Senate and House members, we discuss issues that will likely come up in January, and begin to vet legislation drafts. We also have the opportunity to schedule meetings throughout the state as we try to bring Frankfort to more citizens. Besides serving as chairman of the Transportation Committee, I am also a member of five other committees that require my attention on matters as different from the budget to veterans.

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  • State’s agriculture healthy

    While it should surprise no one that agriculture is one of Kentucky’s biggest industries, we got a much clearer picture late last month of just how much of an impact it has on our economy.
    According to the University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture, the commonwealth’s farmers are the foundation for more than $46 billion in annual revenue.

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  • LG&E’s coal ash landfill idea still on the table

    Editor:

    Many people in Trimble County are under the impression that LG&E’s plan to construct a dry coal ash landfill has been stopped. This is not the case. Although the proposal that included the area of the Wentworth Lime Cave was denied because of probable historical significance, they have been busily working on a new plan in the same general area, which should soon be submitted for permitting.

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  • Senator objects to ‘Big Brother’ tactics

    When Americans expressed outrage over the seizure and surveillance of Verizon’s client data by the National Security Agency, President Obama responded: “In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother . . . but when you actually look at the details, I think we’ve struck the right balance.”

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  • When perfect isn’t enough

    A few weeks ago, I watched a movie on TV called “The Perfect Family.”

    Right away, just by the title, you know they’re not perfect.

    The main character is Eileen, the mother of the family. A devout Catholic, she attends Mass every day, and at confession she confesses every sin she can think of down to her gossipy thoughts.

    She serves communion and delivers food to the homebound. She’s careful to pray before meals and keeps a family altar in her home.

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  • What’s in a name?

    On Nov. 24, the Jameson family named their newborn baby girl Hashtag, after Twitter’s use of the (#) symbol.

    The year before, an Egyptian man named his son Facebook, and in 2011 an Israeli couple named their baby Like.

    These babies join celebrities’ babies Spec Wildhorse Mellencamp, Moxie Crimefighter Jillette, Pilot Inspecktor Lee and Audio Science Clayton, which makes Apple Blythe Alison Martin sound almost traditional as a baby name.

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  • Production stats for Kentucky industry quite impressive

    Kentucky is blessed to have not one but several “signature” industries, those areas of the economy where few if any states have a bigger impact.

    Since last summer, we’ve gotten a much clearer picture of just how extensive some of these industries are.

    The latest news about two of them, in fact, came last week.  First, we learned that Kentucky churned out more than a million cars and trucks last year, the most our four assembly plants have built since 2007.  Only three states produced more.

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