Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Monday night, I received a call from one of my staff. They were positioned outside the police cordon at a developing situation in Fort Thomas, and needed to talk through how we […]
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Inside LINK: Just here for the comments
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Oh, social media comments sections. We know them, we love them, and sometimes, we can’t believe what people say in them. Being able to post our work on social media broadens our […]
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Inside LINK: Our policy on Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. A few times a month, I get an email or a direct message from someone who wants to know how to get a letter to the editor or an opinion piece published […]
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Op-Ed: Pass freedom on in Kentucky’s classrooms
The following op-ed is written by Jim Waters, president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, described as Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Our nation pauses on Memorial Day to remember the more than 1.3 million Americans who paid the ultimate price to protect our freedom and preserve our liberties. Since, like Ronald […]
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Inside LINK: We want your opinion
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. By now, every one of you who lives in the NKY Metro should have received the May/June edition of the LINK Reader. (If you haven’t received your copy, PLEASE let me know.) […]
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Op-Ed: Kentucky on frontlines of national addiction epidemic
The following op-ed is written by Tim Robinson, president/CEO of Addiction Recovery Care (ARC) Addiction is one of the most difficult and destructive things a family can experience. It can tear people apart, and in worst case scenarios, leave loved ones grieving and wondering if there’s anything they could have done differently. In Kentucky, the […]
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Op-Ed: With Ky. overdoses surging, here’s what I’m doing to help
The following op-ed is written by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate Minority Leader. The CDC just released its preliminary estimate for overdose deaths in Kentucky last year, and the news is grim. After surging nearly 50% in 2020, overdose deaths in the Commonwealth increased by more than 13% in 2021, reaching a record of […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Always time to talk hoops in Kentucky
How much fun will it be for Northern Kentucky high school basketball fans the next year-and-a-half with a dynamic duo like seniors-to-be Evan Ipsaro, a dynamic all-state point guard out of Covington Catholic, and Holy Cross’s Jacob Meyer, the leading scorer in the state and by one report, the nation, at 38.2 points a game […]
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Inside LINK: The hard work of covering elections
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. It has been a busy week in the LINK nky offices. Tuesday night was Kentucky’s primary election, and we put together the most comprehensive election coverage NKY has seen in over a […]
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Rich Livingood: Why I’m running for Newport city commission
The following op-ed is written by Rich Livingood, a candidate in the primary for Newport city commission. My reason for running in the Newport Commissioners race this year is two-fold, opportunity and vision. First, my role as a Hospice Chaplain was affected by the restrictions brought on by COVID19, and later my position was eliminated. […]