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. I know I’ve told this story before, but it bears repeating. I grew up in a very small town in Ohio, where the weekly newspaper, the Free Press Standard, was part of […]
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Inside LINK: Starting year two
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. Far be it for me to hurry along 2022 any more — how is it already almost Thanksgiving? — but at LINK, we are already looking forward to 2023. We’ve finished our […]
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Inside LINK: How we’re covering the election
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. The past month at LINK has been a whirlwind of activity, preparing for the midterm elections next week. (Reminder, early in-person voting starts today, so if you want to do your civic […]
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Op-Ed: Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is Reminder to Be Screened
The following op-ed is written by Ken Rechtin, a Newport city commissioner. This op-ed previously was published in 2021 and re-posted in 2022. Prostate Cancer Awareness month is September 2021. Every cancer gets a month. And every cancer gets a ribbon. What’s the ribbon all about? Is it just a participation trophy? Now, every cancer […]
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Op-ed: Clean energy transition would break Russia’s geopolitical hold
Op-eds are submitted by the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion(s) of LINK Media. Written by By Madeleine Para and Vasudha Deshpande For years, our planet has been showing us the need to move away from fossil fuels. Extreme weather, driven by excess greenhouse gas emissions, continues to get more frequent and more […]
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Op-ed: Legislature delivers for Kentucky businesses
Op-eds are submitted by the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion(s) of LINK Media. The following op-ed is written by Ashli Watts Coming out of a two-year pandemic, facing extreme workforce shortages, and working toward economic recovery, the Kentucky Chamber knew we had to have a bold plan heading into the 2022 General […]
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Dan Weber: How Beechwood Responded to Aid Rival Mayfield After Tornado
Dan Weber writes a sports column for The River City News. Contact him at dweber3440@aol.com. Beechwood High football coach Noel Rash understands that when it comes to Mayfield and how the rest of the state and the nation is getting together to help the tornado-flattened town in Western Kentucky 320 miles from Ft. Mitchell, people […]
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Dan Weber: the Special Environment of Covington Catholic’s Gym
Dan Weber writes a sports column for The River City News. Contact him at dweber3440@aol.com. As rewarding as it is to return home to Northern Kentucky after three decades in places like Philadelphia and New Jersey, Chicago/Northwest Indiana and Los Angeles/Orange County, there’s one thing I’ve missed. In moving on from the Big East to […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: A Look at Beechwood’s Recipe for Success
Dan Weber writes a sports column for The River City News. Contact him at dweber3440@aol.com. Noel Rash didn’t take long to decompress last Friday from months of what is necessarily an all-encompassing football-coaching mode. His Beechwood Tigers had just edged Lexington Christian Friday evening at UK’s Kroger Field, 23-21, giving Rash his seventh state title (in […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Beechwood Looks to Repeat in Class 2A Title Rematch
Dan Weber writes a sports column for The River City News. Contact him at dweber3440@aol.com. It’s the most-anticipated rematch since Ali-Frazier. It’s that classic “immovable object vs. unstoppable force” matchup. It’s 14-0 Beechwood vs. 14-0 Lexington Christian, same as it was a year ago, for the Class 2A title at UK’s Kroger Field with a […]