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EDITORIAL

AS WE SEE IT: Fixing a broken system

Carter County, and eastern Kentucky, are still suffering from the opioid epidemic inflicted upon us by an uncaring and profit-driven pharmaceutical industry. Let’s make no...

Guest Editorial: EMS should be an essential service

By Rick Loperfido, Executive Director of Carter County EMS When an emergency occurs, and you dial 911 for emergency assistance, you expect to see a...

AS WE SEE IT: The ethics of AI use

Someone on my friends list recently suggested I start using AI tools to help with some of the writing for the newspaper. They talked...

Editor’s update

A while back we mentioned that we were going to be bringing you more content from the Associated Press. It was an investment we...

AS WE SEE IT: You can’t legislate morality

Gambling can be a terrible addiction. Like all addictions, it doesn’t just impact the individual placing the bets, it can impact their partners, their...

Kentuckians need to raise their guard to fight off lasting effects of pandemic

By: Ben Chandler, President and CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky We are no longer seeing high community-spread of COVID-19 in Kentucky, but the pandemic...

Utility disconnections are dangerous, ineffective, and unnecessary

The number of Kentuckians who had their power disconnected increased by 228 percent last year as compared to a 29 percent increase nationwide, according...

AS WE SEE IT: Powerful tools and responsibility

As I write this I’m sitting outdoors, in bright sunlight, feeling safe and secure. Thirty yards away, locked in the trunk of my car,...

Will cryptomining companies coming to Kentucky raise your electric bills?

A Chinese cryptomining company is proposing to build a $250 million plant near the town of Louisa in Eastern Kentucky. At the same time,...

Guest Editorial: The actual science of being transgender

We’re leaving critical information out of the conversation – namely, the growing evidence that gender dysphoria has a basis in biology. Most of us witnessed...

COLUMN

Kentucky primary again proved that money can’t buy everything

Coal billionaire Joe Craft must be Kentucky's most devoted husband, according to what happened in this year's May Primary. He provided his wife, Kelly, with...

Childhood Memories

My boys love giant robots. The giant, humanoid vehicles piloted by a crew of heroic humans, or “mechas” as the genre is known in...

SB 241 was continuation of SB 214

SB 241 in the 2023 Kentucky Legislative Session was a continuation of SB 214, pertaining to the 54,000-acre Elk Project in southeast Kentucky, with partners...

Can the new speed-up rules really save big league baseball?

As a proud fan of what sports writers and broadcasters used to call the “boys of summer”, I’m pleased to report that recent rule...

What happened to the concept of “the loyal opposition” in national politics?

As a young boy, it worried me that my grandfather liked to say he had lived too long when he didn’t understand how and...

What, me worry?

I wasn’t a very athletic child. Bookish would have probably been the best way to describe me. When other kids were running, jumping, or...

I may give up television to avoid being so depressed by the newscasts

This is difficult for an old journalist like me to say or write but I am beginning to understand why so many folks say...

Please leave a message after the tone

I once dated a girl who had a co-worker who insisted that email was the best way to get hold of him or to...

Social Security is going to hell in a handbasket and I’m angry!

Thanks to the fearless folks at AARP, I learned this week that the Social Security Administration is trying to justify its poor customer service...

Doing the research

I sat down this week and wrote an entire column lambasting the legislature based on a knee-jerk reaction to less than a dozen words...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Hale Cemetery

To the editor, and those with family in the Hale Cemetery on Smith Run; To the families who are supporting maintenance of the cemetery, thank...

Letter to the Editor: On the proposed insurance tax

Editor, I write to address our county government's proposed ordinance to maintain the insurance tax increase, rather than keeping faith with Carter County voters and...

Letter to the Editor: Cartoon Controversy

My name is Scott Adkins; I live in Grayson.  For quite some time, I have purchased and enjoyed reading the Carter County Times. I write...

Letter to the Editor: News appreciation

Hello to the folks over at Carter County Times. My name is Thomas Eklund. I am a senior at West Carter High School this...

Letter to the Editor: From the family of Brent King

This is one of the hardest thank you letters I will ever have to write. Trying to find the words has been so hard, because...

Letter to the Editor: Postal News

Dear Editor, Recently, one of our letter carriers in Olive Hill suffered a dog bite. This is not an isolated incident for Postal Service employees...

Letter to the Editor: A “Fall Y’all” thank you

I am going to attempt to say "Thank You" to everyone who helped make our sixth Annual "It's Fall Y'all!" Vendor & Craft Festival...

Letter to the Editor: Regulators should be pressing Windstream, not praising them

In recent weeks, Kinetic (a.k.a Windstream) has been praised for delivering gigabit internet services to Grayson, only after receiving a quarter of a million...

Letter to the Editor: A Thank You

The Olive Hill Area Chamber of Commerce would like to take this time to thank everyone involved in this year’s 4th of July Homecoming...

Letter to the Editor: Southern Baptist Convention

The Guidepost Solutions Sexual Abuse Task Force Report released Sunday afternoon was heartbreaking and shocking, to say the least. The abuse perpetrated against fellow...

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