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Thanks to all who participated in recovery efforts for fire victims Hello
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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Accepting applications
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 anywhere and anytime
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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Ethics should extend to everyone
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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A good start
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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The gang that couldn’t plan straight
Once again, at the regular July meeting of the Perry County School Board, the board voted 3-1 to approve a fifth one-year extension of the employment contract of Superintendent John Paul Amis, whic...
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Concerned about possible cuts
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I am deeply concerned and alarmed over the fact that our president has threatened to stop social security payments to our elderly and disabled. What truly concerns me is that this was the first o...
Thanks to those who called and visited
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On May 13 of last year I was sentenced to 12 months for mail fraud by a federal judge. All other charges were dismissed at that time. One month after my sentencing the U.S. Supreme Court ruled tha...
It’s Kentucky, anything goes
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In Kentucky it’s safe to say “Anything goes,” when it concerns, “to the victor goes the spoils.” This applies to the attitude now held by the elite and the politically powerful when it comes to tak...
Study on MTR link to birth defects based on biased research
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Just when I think I’ve seen it all, I am stunned into jaw dropping disbelief. Last week, the media reported a study which states that babies born in areas near mountaintop mining sites were 26 per...
What kind of an attorney?
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With concern I read your recent reports relative to prosecutions, or lack thereof, by the Perry County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office. I read of a plea agreement for a rape defendant, worked out...
Stop the Patriot Act
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In the days following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress passed the anti-terrorism law known as the Patriot Act. I must admit that at the time I supported the government's tactics supposed...
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