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Reinventing Hazard a must as we move forward
Braddock, Pennsylvania is in many ways like all industrial era towns, giving it a certain unique similarity to Hazard. They have seen both the tremendous and immediate growth afforded to a region by jobs and natural resources. Sadly, this means that they both have seen the decline in industry and how this can affect what was once a thriving population. Braddock was a steel town with a population of a round 20,000 during its heyday. Today it...
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Opposing for the sake of opposition
I wonder sometimes what will be some of the defining issues of our time. It seems that after the massive upheaval President Obama released last week in his personal support of gay marriage, this may very well be one of them. But based on the surge of opposition to Obama’s personal belief (not a policy shift, mind you), I wonder if many politicians who like to cater to the belief that the government should stay out of people’s personal lives...
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Illegal dumping a problem yet to be solved
There’s a seedy underbelly in Eastern Kentucky, hiding beneath the greenery and foliage of scenic and beautiful central Appalachia. Sometimes, especially this time of year, it’s hard to spot, hidden in the wilderness. Despite the significant effort to solve the problem through orgainzations like PRIDE, there still exists numerous sites in Perry County, well beyond the beaten path, where local people opt to discard unwanted junk, building ma...
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Newspapers still an important part of life
Being a reporter in the digital age has often been a choice I have worried about. I have been told by people in online media and television that I jumped aboard a sinking ship, and there have been times I have considered if they are right. Newspapers are shutting down and laying off hundreds all the time. As I was thinking about this one day and watching TV and listening to the radio, I realized something — the world needs newspapers. Tur...
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Giving yourself more credit
The recent wet dry votes across the region have mostly led to counties continuing to stay dry. As someone who has never lived in an area that questioned wet versus dry, I have to admit I am a bit confused by the whole notion of living in a dry county. In dry counties you can drink, you can have alcohol at your home, you just can’t buy it. If you have all of the freedoms of a wet county but just have to drive farther to get alcohol where’s t...
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Letters
Letters, week of April 18, 2012
Summer of hate? Where? Editor’s note: The following letter is in response to a column written by Editor Cris Ritchie and published in the February 29, 2012 edition of the Herald. The o...
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Letters week of April 11, 2012
Let us mine coal I was recently listening to National Public Radio and heard Mr. Obama bragging about bailing out the auto industry and saving jobs, but I did not hear him bragging about all the...
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Letters for the week of March 21, 2012
Helping the wrong people do the right thing Perry Schools Board Chairman John Combs complained at the recent monthly meeting that so much seems to find its way into the local newspaper. Of cours...
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Letters: Week of March 14, 2012
Remembering a friend My name is George Carson from Tulsa, Oklahoma. I’m full-blood Native American from the Otoe Missouri tribe in Oklahoma. I first met Sergeant Arthur Brashear while serving in...
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Letters: March 7, 2012
Supporting KET worth the effort I have been a volunteer at KET, Kentucky’s statewide public television system, since 1985. I volunteer my time there because for years my family and I have enjoye...
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Editorial
Primary offers chance to get out and vote
If there is one thing we can all expect in the new few days, it’s that Tuesday’s primary election will come with a paltry turnout of voters. Perry County Clerk Haven King believes that there sim...
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Where is the onus to fix managed care?
If there is one thing that last week’s Medicaid debacle between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and a managed care company illustrates, it’s that when it comes to health care, there are no easy an...
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Approval of KASPER mandate should be model for rest of nation
It’s not every day that Kentucky can serve as a precedent in terms of good legislation that should well be considered on the national stage. But despite an unnecessary (and expensive) special se...
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The need to address bullying in schools is local
It was just last week that a mother of a local student stood up at a meeting of the Perry County Board of Education to address an issue obviously weighing heavy in her life: school bullying. Accor...
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