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Governor Beshear recently introduced his proposed budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. Again, as has been the case for nearly a decade, cuts are being made across the board with little to no new ...
Guest view: State university in coalfields key to Kentucky’s future
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When Agriculture Commissioner James Comer was elected to his first statewide office last fall, we had hopes that he would fare better than his predecessor, Richie Farmer, and would also work to be...
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The Perry County Fiscal Court should be commended for their recent action on criminalizing the possession and sale of a wide array of formulations that are being used to manufacture synthetic mari...
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A couple weeks ago we voiced our support for the University of Pikeville becoming a state university. Something like this needs to happen in order to lower tuition costs for Eastern Kentucky colle...
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Governor Steve Beshear is keen on saying that his state budgets protect Kentucky’s basic funding formula for education, also known as SEEK. In fact, he said it again last night during an address t...
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White Lightning. Stardust. Legal Eagle. K2. They’re just a few names of the synthetic drugs being abused here in Eastern Kentucky, mostly by teenagers. Despite the fact that in many cases these ...
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After years of work, a much needed and important project was, in essence, ready to go. The funding was in place, and Perry and other counties downstream on the North Fork of the Kentucky River sto...
LETTERS
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In regard to the recent events surrounding the Perry Central debacle, with the principal fired, testing coordinator and a teacher penalized with suspensions, John Paul Amis remains unscathed and, ...
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Thanks to all who participated in recovery efforts for fire victims Hello, my name is Fred Stidham, director of the Hazard Perry County Service Unit of the American Red Cross. I would like to ta...
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A recent review of the employment contract of Perry Schools Superintendent John Paul Amis indicated that the total package amounts to well in excess of $200,000 annual salary. That contract began ...
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Upholding a right to prayer To the Bell County High School team and football players: We commend you for standing up for your God-given rights as well as our American right to pray to our God an...
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As a citizen and voter of Perry County, I’m aware that the ethics commission ruled last month that Sheriff Les Burgett has been in violation of the current ethics code for employing his wife in the...
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The Perry County Ethics Commission is to be commended for acting to remove the wife of Sheriff Les Burgett from the department payroll. The ordinance establishing a Code of Ethics and an ethics com...
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I know I have written several times about how I am impressed by the people and the life in Hazard. I am sure it’s getting old hearing high praise from a city slicker of how your small town has som...
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My generation of my family tends to wait for marriage. Of the four cousins and two second cousins and my sister and I that I consider my generation, only one of us is married. While I am not sure ...
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It was probably around late 2004 or early 2005 when I first met Ronnie Bryant. He was, of course, chief of the Hazard Police Department, a title he still holds today, though not for very much long...
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When I was in the fourth grade I won a medal from NASA. It’s still, by far, one of the coolest things I have. A couple groups of students from my gifted program at my elementary school were aske...
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How crazy is one of the newest rules being enforced by the National Collegiate Athletic Association? Here’s an example: In November, only one day before several high schools were to take part in...
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Sometimes it’s astounding how the higher-ups in government operate. Congress refuses to work with itself or the Executive Branch, the president, while preaching a bi-partisan approach, has a defin...
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