EDITORIAL

The KY Legislature doesn’t want to hear your concerns

By Teri Carter Kentucky Lantern On Jan. 21, as President Trump was giving his speech in Davos — confusing Iceland with Greenland during his absurd pitch...

Guest Editorial: Why Troy’s Law Matters to Kentucky’s Working Class

By Bubba Johnson Bubba’s Towing Some days in Frankfort carry more weight than others. Not because of ceremony or politics, but because of what’s at stake...

Industry, growth, and Kentucky Power’s proposed rate hikes

By Suzanne Barker Griffith and Paula Bowling In its most recent rate case, Kentucky Power clarified that population and industrial losses coupled with the need...

Kentucky Dems have Senate candidates, but what are their chances?

By Al Corss Northern Kentucky Tribune Strange as it seems, the Democratic Party has a remarkable roster of candidates to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell...

It’s all the rage, but how do we stop it?

By Teri Carter Kentucky Lantern On Nov. 3 I attended a Lawrenceburg (Anderson County) City Council meeting which opened with an alleged jurisdictional issue between the...

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...

COLUMN

The unspoken boogeyman

By Robert Dean Carter County Times I think there’s an unspoken boogeyman we don’t talk about. When you’ve been broke-broke, the fear that poverty could come...

How could members of an American Indian tribe not be Americans?

            As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was recruiting ICE storm troopers off the street with $50,000 sign-on bonuses, no one apparently provided...

From Traffic Jams to New Year’s Resolutions

A few years ago, I came across a historical photograph that caught my attention. It showed a massive traffic jam in Sweden in 1967....

Don’t tread on me?

By Robert Dean Carter County Times For years, the rallying cry from many Republicans was loud and straightforward: “We're prepared to fight tyranny. We're ready to...

How did Plato know personal computers were coming?

Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle. That means he was one smart dude. So, when he said necessity...

The strangest things

As we’re culturally reeling from the finale of Stranger Things, it’s hard not to point out how weak the writing was. Many of the...

The damage we don’t count

By Brandon LaVoie For the Carter County Times Some things don’t stay abstract when you live with their consequences long enough. I’m a father of three boys...

Could the Venezuelan adventure become another disaster like Afghanistan?

                As a student of history, I was greatly surprised Saturday morning when President Donald Trump announced to the world that U.S. military forces...

The best laid holiday plans can go astray despite our good intentions.

This is the sad tale of how a brilliant idea of this writer about saving money at Christmas this year went south because of...

Happy New Year, you should call your mom

By Robert Dean Carter County Times It’s a new year and it’s time to focus on a new you. Instead of promising to lay off the...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Dr. Fraley is the equal to the best of the best

Dear Carter County Citizens: It was recently communicated to me that Doctor Jennifer Fraley was employed as the superintendent of your educational community. Each citizen...

Letter to the Editor: Glad that Shriners raised funds for kids’ hospital

Dear editor; Having family in and near Carter County, I read The Carter County Times article: "Shriners contribute more than a quarter million to hospitals"...

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...