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Today's Opinions

  • Couple hurt by city worker’s attitude over cemetery marker

    Editor:

    My husband, James Anderson, was adopted. So when we got married he wanted to know where his mother was buried. It took me a long time to find the records. We didn’t have much money so we painted a wooden cross to mark it. It was stolen out of the graveyard. I told Rita about it at city hall.

    Then on Dec. 11 we went to the graveyard to see his mother’s grave. The marker James’ brother, John Mahuron, and my husband bought was destroyed and the new big cross was leaning badly.

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  • State leading in govt. internet access

    Over the last dozen or so years, and largely in lockstep with the increased popularity of the internet, there has been a welcome surge in government transparency.  What might have taken days for interested citizens to gather in the past can now be found online in a matter of seconds.

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  • The gift of wanting

    I like to tell people that every obsession I have is my youngest daughter’s fault. She got me hooked on jewelry, shoes, pedicures, purses, expensive cosmetics - I blame her, only because the alternative is to blame myself.

    But the truth is, I was born a wanter. I want this and I want that and I want more.

    In an old Seinfeld episode Kramer asks George, “Do you ever yearn?”

    George tells him, “Well, not recently. I craved. I crave all the time, constant craving. But I haven’t yearned.”

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  • Kentucky ranks high in charitable giving

    If it seems that the news is often filled more with what’s wrong with the world than what’s right, the holidays give us a chance to flip that equation for a time.

    Here in Kentucky, it doesn’t take long to find some good news across the state.

    Earlier this fall, for example, we learned our citizens are much more willing to give to charitable causes than those living in most other states. According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, we rank 15th in this category.

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  • 12-12-12: 3 dozen favorite Christmas recordings

    The rare occurrence of the 12th day of the 12th month of the year 2012 offers an opportunity for all of us to think for a day in terms of dozens. Here are three-dozen of my favorite recordings at Christmas time. Some of these selections reflect that I am extremely nostalgic (and perhaps getting old), others reflect an eclectic taste and acceptance of some of the modern musical artists of this age.

    12 secular favorites

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  • A road trip worth taking

    By TEENA DRAKE
    Special to The Trimble Banner

    Christmas lights are a tradition upheld across the United States, as families and friends travel far and wide to watch in amazement as they illuminate the night. Nestled at the end of Music Valley road in Nashville, TN. a campground has created a magical Christmas wonderland with a magnitude of lights and a beautiful arrangement of music.

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  • Who is flying the plane?

    I flew a plane last week, Delta flight 837.

    Well, maybe not “flew” it, but I definitely helped.
    My daughter moved to Hawaii last week and flew from Atlanta to Honolulu, a nine hour, 14 minute flight that I tracked on my computer.

    For nine hours and 14 minutes I watched an airplane icon inch its way across the continent and then over the Pacific Ocean.

    At one point, about an hour off the California coast, the plane on my computer screen faced east instead of west.

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  • States’ bottom lines stabilizing; Ky. on projected target

    As the debate in Washington rages over what the federal government should do to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, there is some good news when it comes to state government budgets: Most are finally seeing their bottom lines stabilizing.

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