Editorials

Thanks to a group of persistent volunteers, our furry four-legged canine friends will soon have a park of their own. Recently, the Bark Park group secured land on Loretto Road near My Old Kentucky Home State Park for the Bourbon City Bark Park after more than three years of trying to find a location. This group is a great example of a true grass-roots community effort that persevered after facing multiple roadblocks along the way.

The ability to read is considered a foundation skill because almost all other learning flows from being able to absorb information through the written word.  

Recreational reading — reading for the fun of it — is something of an acquired taste, but once acquired, generally in childhood, it stays with one for a lifetime. Being able to pick up a book (or these days a Kindle or similar device) and enter the world painted for us by an author is a priceless gift.

If a U.S. senator and members of an advocacy group meet in a public library for a panel discussion on immigration reform, the meeting ought to be open to anyone who wants to sit and listen. Right?

That would make sense, but that’s not what happened last week in Lexington when Sen. Rand Paul, a Bowling Green Republican, spoke at a panel discussion with the Office of the Immigrant, Solidarity and Information. News reporters and photographers were turned away. The discussion was apparently open to anyone else.

A family lost a husband and father. An agency lost a brother. This community lost a man who had pledged his life to protect it.
The shotgun blasts early Saturday morning took more than Bardstown Police Officer Jason Ellis’ life.
He was on his way home to Chaplin when he stopped to clear some debris from the exit 34 ramp of the Blue Grass Parkway. He was finished with his shift. No doubt tired and anxious to get home, he could have easily driven around the obstruction and been home and safe in a few minutes.