Opinion
Education cuts painful, but responsible
The decision last week by Marshall County Schools to cut its teaching staff was most certainly a grim one. Not as bad as it could have been, certainly, but not good news by any stretch of the imagi...
Mar 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Clinic looks for community support
In recent weeks, there’s been an outpouring of support for animals around the county. Some of it is in favor of a merger between tax dollars and nonprofit dollars. Others, for a more controlled inv...
Mar 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Another year in the rearview
Barring some catastrophic event, when today’s issue hits the stands, this author will be celebrating a birthday. Being 33, I’m well beyond the milestones most of us wait for (16, 18 and 21) and st...
Mar 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Spot of summer weather
The recent bout of summer-like weather served as a good reminder of a few things. The first was that you can get free work out of almost any preteen by promising them an opportunity to light someth...
Mar 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Role of newspapers
Given the story that broke last week (for anyone who hasn’t heard, there’s a petition circulating the county to repeal prohibition), now seems like as good a time as any to remember the role news a...
Feb 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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What’s in a caucus?
A lot of things can be said about life in Kentucky. Like, how every carbonated beverage is a Coke, or how every male here wants to jump the General Lee across a washed out dirt road bridge. In a Pr...
Feb 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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If you’re reading this, it’s already too late
If you’re reading this and you don’t know it’s Valentine’s Day... it’s probably already too late. It’s an all-too-common trap every person (translation: every man) falls in to. Through PDAs, friend...
Feb 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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More good news on tap for NMWD?
Hopefully, in the coming weeks, there will be some more good news from the North Marshall Water District. The board recently held a “state of the district” address. According to board chairman, Jer...
Feb 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Clinic would help with those rainy days
According to my fortune cookie the other day, into everyone’s life a little rain must come. Maybe it comes in the form of a wayward ship on a rainy day knocking out the bridge you regularly cross, ...
Jan 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stewardship, or micromanagement?
Franklin Roosevelt’s Tennessee Valley Authority ruffled plenty of feathers in the 1930s when it began acquiring private land and submerging it beneath reservoirs as a series of dams were built alon...
Jan 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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