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EDITORIAL

AS WE SEE IT: When being thankful is hard

We’ve just taken a week off for Thanksgiving, and we should be gearing up for Christmas. This is the time of year when you’re...

A Response To A Viral TikTok Experiment

Anytime "research" is done it is important to ask questions like, was the data properly analyzed? Or are the findings skewed by any personal...

Faith without works – in the age of SNAP

By Emily Sherman Burton Forward Kentucky If community churches spend more on stage lighting than feeding the hungry on their doorsteps, then they have both lost...

AS WE SEE IT: This is your newspaper

Sometimes I think growing up in a society that values rugged individualism so strongly as a virtue can have some negative effects. Now, I'm...

Guest Op-ED: Five Years of Marsy’s Law: Building Belief in Justice That Sees People

By Dr. Emily Bonistall Postel, Ph.D., State Director, Marsy’s Law for Kentucky A victim of domestic violence who knows she has the constitutional right to...

The real Appalachia is still rebuilding

By William Ney J.D. Vance got famous telling the world what’s wrong with Appalachia.He turned struggle into a brand and pain into a talking point,...

How Kentucky is cutting the ‘families’ out of family services

By Norma Hatfield Kentucky Lantern In September, two short notice reductions were announced affecting at-risk populations. One was the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (KTAP) under the...

Rates of Some Cancers Rising Among Younger Adults: What Kentuckians Need to Know

By Dr. Gary Grosel Chief Medical Officer, UnitedHealthcare of Kentucky The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show 35,939 cancer cases...

The original AI: Newspapers run on accurate information

By Ken Paulson Artificial intelligence is going to transform everything we watch, hear and read.  You can already see it happening. Asking an AI search engine...

Report: Some Kentuckians kicked off food benefits because of data that doesn’t tell whole story

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News “With food insecurity rising, Kentucky continues to aggressively investigate individuals on fraud allegations, with some legal experts claiming they rely...

COLUMN

Shopping small pays big dividends

By Robert Dean Carter County Times Jeff Bezos doesn't need your cash. The guy lives on a yacht so big it has a baby yacht inside...

Why are high school athletes going into the ‘one and done’ mess?

            The Kentucky High School Athletic Association recently gave in to heavy pressure to follow college athletics into the swamp of “one and done”...

The Epstein files and the rot at the top

By Robert Dean Carter County Times Every few months, another headline drops and we’re reminded just how deep the rot goes. The Epstein files, once dismissed...

Fear itself can be a scary thing

By Tommy Druen For Carter County Times It was a Wednesday night in the fall of 1989. I was twelve years old, sitting in a half-empty...

The working class is done being the audience

By Robert Dean For the Carter County Times On Friday night, October 31, President Trump threw a “Great Gatsby”-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago. Burlesque dancers. Champagne...

Governor should sign death warrant for double cop killer after 30 years

I’ve made no secret of my admiration for Gov. Andy Beshear and his inspired leadership of our state through tough times. However, I feel...

Nobody is winning when kids go hungry

By Robert Dean For Carter County Times When people cheer for a government shutdown, they’re not “owning” politicians; they’re hurting working families. As of late October,...

If SNAP families go hungry, Kentucky legislators should be ashamed.

Or perhaps they should be removed from office for dereliction of duty because our state treasury is holding enough surplus cash to pay that...

Facing monsters of our own making

By Robert Dean For the Carter County Times The AI machine is gobbling the world whole, and I don’t think people realize how gnarly it really...

It was OK for the Lone Ranger to wear a mask way back then but not today.

            Those of us who can recall the days of the Lone Ranger in the movies and on TV never questioned him wearing a...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: A thank you letter

There are not enough ways to say, "Thank You" to everyone who made the 9th Annual "It's Fall Y'all!" Vendor & Craft Festival a...

Letter to the Editor: “No Thrones, No Crowns, No Kings” Rally Set for Oct. 18 in Morehead

Dear Editor, On Saturday, October 18, there will be a “No Thrones, No Crowns, No Kings” Rally in Morehead, Kentucky in conjunction with gatherings around...

Letter to the Editor: Different times, same old problems

In 1932, Cole Porter wrote the song “Anything Goes” for a musical of the same name. In the piece he enumerates the negative or odd...

Letter to the Editor: Mayor volunteers at food pantry

Hello,I volunteer at a local food pantry in Grayson run out of Freewill Baptist Church headed by Pam Wilburn. Yesterday (August 26) we had...

Letter to the Editor: Questioning party changes

Questioning party changes Editor, I found reading Robin Webb’s “Legislative Update” in the Wednesday, August 20 edition of the Carter County Times took quite a bit...

Letter to the Editor: Well-wishes

Readers, LeAndra Gollihue is fighting a battle with cancer, and will be starting chemo treatments near the end of July. Let’s show her how special...

Letter to the Editor

  As a resident of Kentucky, I write with a heavy heart and a deep sense of responsibility. News that federal funding is being withdrawn...

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am a retired journalist so whenever I want to find out anything I go looking for the local newspaper. They can almost...

Letter to the Editor: Kentucky’s Children Pay for Federal Cuts

By Dr. Rhonda Caldwell, Chief Executive Officer, KY Association of School Administrators From the vast western plains to the rolling hills of eastern Kentucky, we...

Letter to the Editor: Olive Hill Historical Society changes name

Dear Times: I’m excited to announce that the Olive Hill Historical Society has officially changed its name – we are now the Olive Hill Center...

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