Letters

Don’t limit growth
How absolutely absurd it is that any counties in our commonwealth still observe some form of restrictions on the sale of alcohol. On Oct. 4, voters in Elizabethtown, Radcliff and Vine Grove have an opportunity to move out of the dark ages and remove prohibitions on the sale of something every American citizen of legal age should have the right to purchase, and does have in 95 percent of the country.

Be a ray of light
Perhaps you have read the series by Becca Owsley and Robert Villanueva about the poor in Hardin County. If not, pick up a paper and read it. This is the real world in Elizabethtown and our local community.
I recently retired from Fort Knox and decided to volunteer with a local agency. Boy, were my eyes opened. I thought poor or poverty was something that happened in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky or in big cities where the homeless hang their hats.
No.

KET and religion
KET promoters say KET delves into all parts of Kentucky life, yet I haven’t seen a program on the impact of the major religions on society. I see history programs that do not mention religion, but about so and so who did something. Schoolbooks were the same.
The Salvation Army would make a great story and the 25,000 membership in charge of food supply would ensure the poor are fed.
Where are programs on:

Back in the early 1990s, when I was a reporter for The Courier-Journal, I remember seeing a book by late University of Kentucky professor William Lyons called “The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette Experience.” It was on the desk of then-Mayor David Adkisson of Owensboro. 

At the time, Owensboro was in a campaign to merge with Daviess County; I was reporting on that effort.