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EDITORIAL

Guest Editorial: If Roe goes, birth control is likely next

By The Dominion Post Editorial Board “Nothing changes instantaneously: In a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.” — The...

Guest Editorial: Nine good bills that came out of this year’s KYGA session

By: Bruce MaplesPublisher, Forward Kentucky Note that just as some really bad bills died during the session, so did some really good bills. Perhaps, if...

Guest Editorial: For crime victims’ rights, the landscape is changing for the better

Helping survivors of crime find justice means more than a just outcome in the courtroom. It’s about enforcing victims’ rights, listening to and making...

AS WE SEE IT: Library politics

Carter County Public Library Director Matthew Parsons has taken some heat for some of his social media posts this past week. While noting the...

Guest Editorial: Give government agencies the power to protect us

By: The Dominion Post Editorial Board In 1999, Rob Bilott, an environmental lawyer who had built his career defending large corporations took on the case...

AS WE SEE IT: Our senators are hurting us

A medical marijuana bill sponsored by Representative Jason Nemes (R – District 33) passed in the House last month with bipartisan support, on a...

Guest Editorial: Flood Risk Analysis Has Changed: What It Could Mean for Eastern Kentucky

Within our lifetimes, devastating floods have become more frequent throughout Eastern Kentucky. It’s not just in our imaginations; the EPA has found that there...

Guest Editorial: Don’t make a difficult situation even worse; Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky urges Kentucky Senators to vote ‘no’ on HB7

By: Ben Chandler, President & CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky These days Kentuckians are paying more for a lot of things… gas and grocery...

AS WE SEE IT: Enough of the partisan bickering

I recently saw an editorial that put forward the position that the COVID-19 virus, and related restrictions, divided our nation like never before. I would...

Guest Editorial: State legislators playing dangerously with First Amendment

By The Bowling Green Daily News State legislators in Frankfort really need to be careful when it comes to suppressing the media’s ability to report...

COLUMN

Honoring Memorial Day by visiting the many who have fallen

Memorial Day was nearly three weeks away when I escorted my 98-year-old father-in-law to St. Louis for the annual reunion of his 95th Bomb...

Honoring Memorial Day by visiting the many who have fallen

Memorial Day was nearly three weeks away when I escorted my 98-year-old father-in-law to St. Louis for the annual reunion of his 95th Bomb...

How did our beloved Cincinnati Reds become the laughingstock of baseball?

I’m waiting for someone to explain to me how the oldest franchise in major league baseball has become perhaps the worst team in the...

Historical Hitchins

A couple of weeks ago I was coming into the Hitchins Post for lunch when former magistrate Mark Miller stopped me and started teasing...

Column: Picking the Kentucky Derby winner is easy as Derby pie

The Kentucky Derby has returned in all of its glory, and we should celebrate this Saturday’s revival of our state’s signature sporting event. Despite the...

Looking for the good

While eating at Walker’s on Friday, a group of Olive Hill firefighters came in for lunch. As long as there isn’t a crowd backed...

Totems!

Those who remember the early days of the internet will remember the phenomenon that was World of Warcraft, and possibly a series of video...

New abortion law won’t stop the killing of the unborn

Those of us who oppose abortion on religious or other grounds are kidding ourselves if we think Kentucky’s new anti-abortion law or even the...

Is life too dangerous today for performing an act of personal heroism?

It was an all-too-common roadside scenario, and it could have been a tragedy in the making. A white police officer was struggling to handcuff an...

Egg hunts and normalcy

On Easter Sunday our boy had his first real Easter egg hunt. At three years old, he has been too young to realize just...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Support HB 349

Submitted by Lew Nicholls The last piece of legislation signed by President John F. Kennedy was the Community Mental Health Act establishing community mental health...

Letter to the Editor: Senate Bill 60 leaves state taxpayers paying more for early childhood education

Dear members of the Kentucky State Legislature, For the last 58 years, Kentucky Community Action Head Start agencies have directly and independently operated Head Start....

Letter to the Editor: Promise without a plan

For the first time in two years, the Local Planning Committee for Carter County Schools held a meeting to hear information regarding consolidating high...

Letter to the Editor from CASA of Northeast KY, Inc.

Many of us are looking forward to spending time with our families this holiday season. But for children who have experienced abuse or neglect,...

Thanks from the Olive Hill Area Chamber

I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge “THANK YOU!“ to those responsible for The Olive Hill Area Chamber of Commerce’s...

Letter to the Editor: A response to “Our juvenile justice system is a disgrace. It must be reformed.”

I read Keith Kappes’s article in the Sept. 24th issue of the Carter County Times and I have a few comments. First, I don’t believe...

Letter to the Editor: Thanks from the Olive Hill Chamber of Commerce

I want to take this opportunity to say huge THANK YOUs to everyone who worked so hard to make the Olive Hill Area Chamber...

Letter to the Editor 6/9/21

I want to give a heart felt thanks Grahn Fire Dept and Bob and Eli for helping me in my time of need when...

Letter to the Editor: 5/5/21

Dear Mr. Wells, My husband and I drove from Louisville to Olive Hill this past weekend (Apr 30- May 2) to enjoy our first trip...

Letter to the Editor: 3/24/21

Ruth Haney of Haney’s Jewelry would like to thank everyone who remembered the 60th anniversary of her shop and helped her celebrate. The calls,...

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