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Our View: Lingering eyesores

by Ralph B. Davis

9 days ago | 0

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So, who are you going to vote for in the primary? You might have thought that election had already passed us by several months ago, and so did we, until we began to notice the many, many campaign ...

Our View: School safety issues come to the front
This week more than more than 6,000 kids will be heading to schools throughout Floyd County. Some for the first time, some for the last, but regardless of when we can’t strongly enough remind ever...

22 days ago | 0

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Reform comes to the reformers
The management of Otter Creek Correctional Center is saying all the right things now that the facility has been converted from a prison holding female inmates to one holding men. Little wonder, as...

29 days ago | 0

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Our View: Rescue Squad deserves thanks from all of us
We could not be more proud of a group of people than we are of the volunteers who compose the Floyd County Rescue Squad. During the recent flooding in Pike County, the Rescue Squad pulled 36 peopl...

1 month ago | 0

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Our View: Debt on top of destruction
We hate to say it, and we hope to ultimately be proved wrong, but in the wake of the tragedy that has befallen our neighbor to the east, we are afraid that more pain will be felt in the months and...

1 month ago | 1

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Guest view: Judd’s comments are evidence she is out of touch with realities of region
The recent public comments by Ms. Ashley Judd regarding the people of East Kentucky, the practice of mountaintop removal, and the coal industry in general, struck a nerve with many Kentuckians, ri...

1 month ago | 3

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Our View: Summer’s often forgotten heroes
A day of summer fun very nearly turned tragic June 5. It began as just another warm summer day at the Archer Park swimming pool, with the sounds of children’s laughter filling the air. It quickly ...

2 months ago | 1

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EDITORIALS

Our View: They want the power ... you have it

by Ralph B. Davis

3 months ago | 1

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Six days from now, Floyd Countians will go to the polls to make known their choices to lead the county, and in so doing will set an agenda for the next four years. Will you be one of them? Every ...

Our View: ‘Responsibility’ not a bad word in energy production

by Ralph B. Davis

4 months ago | 1

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Recent events should clearly show, once and for all, that those who have been seeking accountability from traditional energy producers have been trying not to destroy America, but to save it. Duri...

Going green not just national news

by Joshua Byers

4 months ago | 0

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When we first read the news we were thinking: “Not here.” That was followed by a double-take of the information. Ok. So federal funds are actually coming to Eastern Kentucky and Floyd County nonet...

Our View: More enforcement, not more regulation

by Ralph B. Davis

4 months ago | 1

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As West Virginia begins to move on in the wake of the April 5 Upper Big Branch mine explosion, there will come a time when the tough questions must be confronted. One of the toughest — who to blam...

Our View: A true man of the people

by Ralph B. Davis

4 months ago | 0

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Just like everyone else, we were shocked by the sudden and untimely death of District 2 Magistrate Jackie Edford Owens last week. He had been in our office just hours before his collapse, and the...

Our View: What we’re waiting to see while we wait to see

by Ralph B. Davis

5 months ago | 0

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Floyd County has a lot to gain or lose, depending on how the state budget negotiations currently underway shake out. Should the more conservative Senate spending plan win out, state spending on l...

LETTERS

My tax dollars at work, what a joke!

by Patricia West, Prestonsburg

2 days 2 hrs ago | 1

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It seems there is always something that needs to be fixed and I must say that today I found several things that are just not acceptable. First, I have been out of town camping and I am anxious to ...

Inexcusable!

by Pauline S. (Shepherd) Baldridge, of Prestonsburg

9 days ago | 1

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This has been an exceptionally hot and wet season that promotes and encourages lawn care, and we have been no exception, as it has been a constant struggle to keep the grass mowed, weeds cut, etc. ...

'Absolutely mind-boggling'

by Michael K. Samons, of Printer

9 days ago | 0

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For some time now at least, it appears to me we have been living in what I’ll refer to as a New Deal era. “What is that?” you ask. “Oh, you must mean ‘New Age.’” Well, not exactly. This one is ab...

Dirty politics or clean politics?

by John Hicks, Hueysville

3 months ago | 0

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Do dirty politics, clean politics equal good politics? And are good politics honest politics? Is this what the people of Floyd County want and expect of their candidates running for county judge-ex...

Not a rite of passage

by Lt. David P. Jude, Kentucky State Police Headquarters, Frankfort

3 months ago | 0

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We are nearing the time where many young people will celebrate a lifetime of accomplishments as they graduate from high school and move toward their life goals. Family and friends will gather toget...

Not all mining is the same

by Ronald H. Gray, Executive director, Kentucky Crushed Stone Assocation

3 months ago | 0

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We have been following with keen interest articles in Kentucky’s newspapers and the TV coverage on the tragic disaster at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia and the Dotiki Mine in West...

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Freda Carolyn Sanders

2 months ago | 0

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Freda Carolyn Sanders, age 51, of Prestonsburg, wife of Robert Sanders, passed away Monday, June 7, 2010, at the Pikeville Medical Center, in Pikeville. She was born February 14, 1959, in Haysi, V...

Move Kentucky forward: Fix our broken tax system

by Sharon Oxedine and K.A. Owens, Kentucky Forward Coalition

3 months ago | 0

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A couple of weeks ago, as families and businesses were trying to recover from the destruction from the floods across the state, thousands of us pulled together. We sandbagged, rescued, washed, drie...

Our View: Rand is wrong ... on civil rights, and for Kentucky

by Ralph B. Davis

3 months ago | 3

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That was fast. Rand Paul, the Tea Party darling who skyrocketed to national prominence Tuesday with his drubbing of Secretary of State Trey Grayson for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate...

Celebrate the 40th Earth Day by going greener and earning rebates on new appliances

by Sen. Johnny Ray Turner

4 months ago | 0

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On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. The mission was to garner support to save the planet and t...

A legislative perspective

by House Speaker Greg Stumbo

4 months ago | 0

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When the Kentucky House of Representatives gaveled in the 2010 Regular Session at the start of the year, my colleagues and I knew that our top priority would be to balance the state’s budget in the...

Easter message from the Holy Land

by Elaine Washburn Shiber

5 months ago | 11

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I have a friend in the Holy Land. She lives in Taybeh, Palestine - the oldest, continuously Christian village in the world. Her name is Maria, and she writes books for children that educate them ab...

A legislative perspective

Celebrate 39th Earth Day by going greener

What the changes In Kentucky’s testing system mean for the kids of Floyd County

Obama’s national energy tax will devastate Kentucky’s economy

‘Kick Butts Day’ gets local support

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