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Today's Opinions

  • Teaching a community to fish

    The issue: United Way instructional forums
    Our view: Valuable resource for agencies

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  • April 7, 2011: Our readers write

    Coal good for America
    Approaching Easter, I think of the commercial about a product that is only available during this time of year. It essentially says “when the Easter Bunny is gone, this product is also gone.” Something like government incentives and tax breaks for the development of alternative energy sources. For when the incentives are gone, so are the new energy projects.
    This has been proven in Europe, according to a recent John Stossel report, and it is subject to happen here, too.

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  • Young life sacrificed in a faraway place

    Working for a daily newspaper serving a military community makes news about our nation’s war effort in foreign lands a familiar thing. It occupies our pages frequently. And on more occasions than any collection of small towns should experience, we’ve published the stories of young men our area has given up on the battlefield.

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  • Business decision may not be best for whale or trainers

    The issue: Tilikum returns to SeaWorld

    Our view: Questionable decision

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  • Will UK freshmen stay or go?

    ISSUE: UK basketball freshmen class
    OUR VIEW: Players should do what is best for themselves

    Now that the college basketball season has ended for the University of Kentucky, the question being shouted out on message boards and talk shows is this: How many, if any, of Kentucky’s highly touted group of freshmen will exit?

    For guards Brandon Knight and Doron Lamb and forward Terrence Jones, the next few months could be filled with plenty of drama surrounding their Wildcat futures.

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  • April 4, 2011: Our readers write

    Mad bombers
    Countries are known for their cars, their food, their arts or language. The United States is noted for its bombing. We bomb people we like. We have compassionate bombing. If we like you, there is humane bombing where we are trying to help you. Sometimes we even bomb you because we don’t like you. We are very good at bombing. In fact, no one else in the entire world can bomb without our leadership. This is known as our exceptionalism.

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  • Brad Richardson capable of meeting chamber's challenges

    The Hardin County Chamber of Commerce is on a roll.
    Last summer the leadership bodies of the chambers of commerce of Elizabethtown, Radcliff, Vine Grove and West Point announced a collective goal to unite their individual organizations. Considerable time was invested following that announcement by Heartland Chambers Alliance in determining foundational details on how each group would merge into a unified body. Their work built up to a vote of approval on the merger by members of the individual chambers.

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  • April 3, 2011: Our readers write

    Misplaced priorities

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