Maybe the bottleneck in the worldwide supply will help turn our focus closer to home during the holiday shopping season, observes Hoptown Chronicle editor Jennifer P. Brown.
For too many people, "Do your own research," means following a social-media post into a rabbit hole of misinformation, or even disinformation from Russians or others, observes columnist Al Cross.
The New York Times estimates that about 5 million people belong to book clubs. The popular site Goodreads boasts more than 40 million members, and publishers have been known to make decisions based on book club feedback and support.
The pandemic has killed 8,000 Kentuckians, so the decisions legislators make are matters of life and death, and indirectly, legislators’ lack of courage will cause the death of some Kentuckians, says columnist Al Cross.
Kentucky has been setting records for the numbers of people hospitalized, in intensive care and breathing with the help of a ventilator. And on Friday, our region had reached its ICU capacity.
It's going to take the trusted voice of a local physician who is known in her community to carry a message that too many have not taken to heart during the pandemic. More local leaders should speak out.
Lonnie Ali, widow of the most influential Kentuckian ever, speaks her mind and does a better job than anybody of keeping Muhammad Ali’s legacy alive. So why don’t cable TV networks ever invite her to speak on important issues of the day, asks columnists Billy Reed.
During her father's funeral on Friday, Lee Ellen Fish, daughter of R.N. and Mary D. Ferguson, recalled what it was like to be an only child raised by a news reporter and a police officer.
Americans are dying because some politicians have discouraged two key things that have been proven to quash COVID-19, Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, writes for the Northern Kentucky Tribune.
