Rick Robinson: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Ludlow-Bromley Yacht Club somewhere near Ohio for the match up everyone has been waiting for – Donald Trump versus Donald Trump. Since Mr. Trump has now declared that if he wins the GOP Presidential nomination, he won’t run against himself as an independent, tonight The Donald will – […]
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State Senators: School in Kentucky Should Start Later
This opinion column is submitted by State Senators Damon Thayer (R-Georgetown) and Chris Girdler (R-Somerset). In an effort to preserve prosperity enjoyed by Kentucky’s tourism industry and our overall economy, we plan to again file a similar version of Senate Bill (SB) 129 for the 2016 Legislative Session. SB 129 is a measure that would […]
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Oakley Farris: Let’s Support Hotel Project by Sprucing Up Downtown Covington
Covington investor, philanthropist, and popular good guy Oakley Farris expressed his full support for The Hotel Covington project, now fully financed and taking shape in the former Coppins department store building on Madison Avenue that also served as Covington City Hall till 2013. Farris issued a statement on Wednesday calling for full community support for […]
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Ken Rechtin’s Another Voice: About that Anti-Needle Exchange Column…
I read with great interest Senator John Schickel’s opinion of clean needle exchange. As a conservative, he feels that the role of government in public health is a mixed bag of good and bad results. Into his argument he throws everything but the kitchen sink! To hear him tell it, the extermination of the Jews, the threat to […]
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Rick Robinson: John McCain is a Hero and Donald Trump is a Douche
On my list of “Game Show Hosts I’d Like to See as President,” Donald Trump is now near the bottom. I’d walk door-to-door with Draft Alex Trebek petitions, before I’d consider voting for a grown man who refers to himself in the passive third-person. Until this week, though I really didn’t have such strong feelings […]
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Schickel: Don’t Miss the Next Adult Field Trip to Frankfort
Our adult field trip to the state Capitol was a huge success. As stated in a previous column, I always noticed when the children came to Frankfort how the adult chaperones were the ones who were impressed – hence our adult field trip. About 50 of us gathered at 8 a.m. on June 11 in the parking lot of […]
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McConnell: Kentucky Students, Parents and Teachers Win Under Every Child Achieves Act
There are few things more important than providing our children with a good quality education. Yet for years, many Kentucky parents have been less than satisfied with an education system in desperate need of reform. The last major elementary and secondary education bill passed by Congress was the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. […]
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Rick Robinson: Lyrics From Kentucky-Based Song at Center of Lawsuit
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the green river where Paradise lay? Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away. In 1971, American folk-legend John Prine released a song entitled “Paradise” about his childhood memories of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky […]
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Opinion: Labor, Business Should Seek Fairness in Wages & Salary Rules
Late last month President Obama proposed a change to the long standing “overtime rule” for salaried employees. He proposed increasing the current minimum salary of $23,660 to a new minimum of $50,400. This will undoubtedly be challenged in court, but there are a lot of people in favor of this rule change. I think it is worth discussing. […]
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Schickel: Needle Exchange is a Bad Idea
Supporters of Senate Bill 192 (anti-heroin legislation) told lawmakers that needle exchanges for heroin addicts were a public health issue. I voted against SB 192 because I opposed the needle exchange, but the bill ultimately passed. It is now time we reevaluate needle exchanges. The history of public health in the United States, and the […]
