Q: What is more important, to have good health so that we can earn a good living or have a strong economic base so that we can have money to pay for good health care? This has been a big debate in our society recently. — H.W.
Dear Governor Beshear and Lieutenant Governor Coleman:
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But it's more than a bit ironic that in a $23-$24 billion budget, the way legislators have chosen to "save" money is to make it more difficult for taxpayers to see how they are spending all that money in the first place.
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The General Assembly is currently in session, and that means every resident of the Commonwealth needs to be paying attention to what is going on in Frankfort. House Bill 195 proposes a public notice solution that is inefficient at best, and a train wreck for transparency.
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Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling has lost the trust of the community and his legal reputation is stained. It is the consensus opinion of this newspaper’s editorial board that he should resign and vacate his elected office immediately.
"Hendricks for South Western Kentucky" doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "Hendricks for Hoptown," but it is evident that naming Hopkinsville's mayor the new executive director of the regional economic development council could benefit all three counties the organization serves.
No one could have foreseen the abrupt shuttering of the city's prized bowling ball manufacturer Ebonite International last week. However, we are fortunate to see the Christian County community rally with grace and gumption around those affected.
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Historically, newspaper editorial boards across the country have offered recommendations to their readership as to who they believe is best fit to represent and serve their communities. The Kentucky New Era has participated in this practice for some time.
Young talent matters and more communities are doing what it takes to attract and retain young professionals to work, live and play.
Last weekend, over 29,000 people swarmed downtown Hopkinsville for the fourth annual Summer Salute Festival. The food and music were great, but the festival made one thing very clear.
Hopkinsville Community College is shining bright like a diamond after a series of recent big announcements.
Last week, Hopkinsville Chief Administrative Officer Troy Body announced that the city is planning to form a mass foreclosure committee in order to shave down the stack of code enforcement liens on abandoned properties around town.
Church. It's a place for the brokenhearted and the redeemed; a place for the newest babes and the oldest saints; it's a place where people go to feel safe, a place they trust won't abuse its power or take advantage of them when they're weak. The story of churches doing the latter isn't new, …
Every time Christian County Public Schools releases its annual discipline report, eyebrows raise and conclusions are drawn. From the students to the administrators to the parents, everyone looks for someone to blame for the number of suspensions, but let's look a little closer to determine w…
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This week, the Kentucky New Era began publishing salary data in regard to public officials in Christian County, Hopkinsville, Oak Grove and in the public school system.
Last week, the New Era reported that former Hopkinsville High School band director Jordan Seth Peveler had been arrested on three felony charges -- one count of unlawful transaction with a minor (second degree), sodomy (third degree) and rape (third degree) -- and booked into Christian County Jail.
Is it possible to not realize your own happiness? Or, when looking back, do you see it only because of nostalgia, wrapped up in the lie of “the good old days”?
One of my favorite Facebook reposts is about how young people are just so fickle. "Back in my day," it may begin. "If something was broke, we'd fix it."
One of my favorite Facebook re-posts is about how young people are just so fickle. “Back in my day,” it may begin. “If something was broke, we’d fix it.”
It’s a cold Friday morning in November. I’m bundled up, belly full of turkey, waiting in the front of a line outside of a department store.
Elkton rep’s proposed open records overhaul not in the best interest of Kentuckians
In honor of Hopkinsville’s finest, our community showed strong support for a hometown hero this week. The event served a reminder that those who put their lives on the line for the well-being of others deserve our appreciation each and every day.
I’m sitting at my desk squeezing a stress ball that looks like a baseball. It’s early and no one has made it into the office yet.
Through our lives, we make our own choices, but our experiences shape how we react to the world. They shape us into who we will eventually become.
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With all of the crazy in the news today, some of it the news’ own doing and self-inflicted wounds, I wanted to use this opportunity to thank you for reading your community newspaper. Your support has never been more important.
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I have to write. It's how I express myself and what I’m feeling. Words and characters, strung together in deliberate order, are the means by which I decompress and bring myself to fully understand the world around me.
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Friends and colleagues, in the proud tradition of newspapering, I do not wish to be accused of burying the lead of a big story.
It was a day in my newspaper career that will live in infamy.
Success breeds imitation. Imitation makes convention. Convention is the sire of tradition. Unfortunately, tradition spawns purists.
Nothing should surprise me anymore.
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A Hopkinsville High School student was arrested Aug. 23 after an altercation with the school resource officer.
If President Donald Trump has declared war on the free press of this great nation, don’t bother picking sides. Save your popcorn and put away the DVR.
Everybody knows somebody somewhere who doesn’t worry about worrying too much.
There’s no place like home.
Lately, the same crazy dream is keeping me up at night.
Nobody in this great big world is a bigger Elvis fan than Walker McCutcheon.
Forty-four years have passed in just the blink of an eye.
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Through his life’s work as a celebrated artist and sculptor, the late Steve Shields is going to live forever.
Don’t read this alone in the dark. That thing under your bed might get anxious. The monsters that come to life when the lights go out would know. The dead-eyed woman on the ceiling above you might get angry.
Jimmy Carter might not be my favorite president, but it’s near to impossible not to like somebody who saw a UFO and doesn’t lie about it.
It was one of the greatest moments of my life, even if it did kind of fizzle out and end with the hero — ME — playing second fiddle to an Army bugle call and Old Glory.
Give “Forrest Gump” some credit for teaching me to appreciate an important life lesson.
The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson always inspire me in times of loss and sympathy.
Everybody who’s gotten behind the wheel of a car is guilty of it.
If disappointment were a currency, the people who have believed in me along the way would be driving European sports cars on the way to their waterfront villas.
Not many people know it, but the FBI put me in my place a long time ago.
Former U.S. Attorney and liberal activist Preet Bharara caught my eye with a tweet last week: “What if Jeff Bezos bought Twitter with the change in his pocket and shut Trump’s account?”
The road to becoming president of Hopkinsville Community College has been long for Dr. Alissa Young, but it was a journey of inspiration, compassion and growth.
Every April, after spring has actually sprung, a cheerful little flower pops up all over town and reminds me of a cherished heritage that never fails to put a lump in my throat.
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Downturns such as every state will experience due to the coronavirus pandemic often unmask the true price tag of letting the good times roll too fast and far in earlier years.
Something strange is going on with The New York Times and the 1619 Project.
I really hate to break this to all our young voters, but the current election cycle is not the most important one in our history. We are in no greater existential national crisis today than we were in the years…
Romans 10: 9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
It’s time for President Trump to start telling the raw truth to the American people. He knows it. I know it. Most voters who don’t suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” know it. Anyone with a brain and common sense knows…
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kentuckians flattened the curve by staying home as much as possible. While that action was necessary and saved lives, it also led to a large number of people putting off important medical care.
Since Sept. 8, Christian County Public Schools has been back in session for the first time since March 13, 2020. We have utilized the Healthy at School guidelines, adapted to the current pandemic requirements, collaborated with our local health department, and executed a successful re-entry …
WASHINGTON - When President Donald Trump was down to the wire in naming a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the strikes against federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett was her scanty judicial record.
Asking President Donald Trump how he feels about “white privilege” is sort of like asking a young fish how it feels about water.
‘Tis a strange world we inhabit. We have a president from a privileged family tell Bob Woodward — another person from a privileged family, but one who believes he might have some responsibility for promoting equality and helping the less fortunate — that he “has really drunk the (liberal) Ko…
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Congress is set to adjourn at the end of this month, yet its biggest and most urgent piece of business remains undone. With the economy unravelling further from the continuing pandemic and the end of CARES Act stimulus funds, it’s critical that Congress provide a strong additional relief package.
North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature and Democratic governor got together recently, played some good old-fashioned politics and ended up passing worthwhile legislation expanding school-choice opportunities for children trapped in failing or mediocre schools.
A year before the Declaration of Independence was signed, pioneers planted the first hemp crop at Clark’s Run Creek in Danville.
John 1: 17 “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
For the child of God who has been made clean by the precious blood of Jesus, death is swallowed up in victory. Paul writes, I Corinthians 15:55-57, “O death where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? But…
In response to credible reports that President Donald Trump has derided fallen U.S. soldiers as “losers” and “suckers,” the least I could do in protest was to change my Twitter photo.
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“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.” — Dr. Seuss, 1971
What would my town be without a newspaper? If you haven’t asked yourself that question, perhaps it is time to consider just what the newspaper means to this community.
Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief is a lot more than chainsaws and soup ladles.
With the U.S. presidential election approaching, Americans face a daunting set of challenges as they prepare to vote.
The pandemic cursing our globe also reveals the fruit of tremendous blessings produced by the private sector’s $1.7 trillion investment in the nation’s broadband networks over the last 20 years, which US Telecom dramatically asserts has brought most Americans access…
Marches, protests and demonstrations, on the street or now online, are how the United States talks to itself. And, to the benefit of the nation, we are doing a lot of talking these days.
As we move deeper into the political season from a national, state and local perspective, I find it most appropriate that myself and the residents of Ward 1 give a well-deserved thank you to the city of Hopkinsville for the visible improvements and infrastructural strides that have been made…
“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.” — Deuteronomy 32:10
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