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 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 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 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 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 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...
Our View: All in all, a good first step So, how is everybody handling all of the misery and suffering, the flames shooting from the sky and the plagues of frogs and locusts, now that the world has ended? That is what was supposed to hap...
At a time when the nation is fighting one war and winding down another, when the economy is worse than at any time since the Great Depression, and when bills concerning health care and energy — key...
A plan to trim $30 million from the state budget by releasing at least 1,000 nonviolent prisoners should be cause for worry, as it has the potential to pass on even greater costs to society. The p...
In the next week or two, local residents should begin seeing some important papers hitting their mailboxes. This is a year that ends with a zero, so that means it’s once again time for the census. ...
If you’ve paid attention to our editorials over the past few years, you’ve no doubt noticed that we like to talk about nutrition quite a bit. While some might consider good nutrition to a no-braine...
Kentucky's junior senator, Jim Bunning, is retiring from politics this year, which is one of those bittersweet moments that is a mix of both good news and bad news. It's good that he's leaving; it...
Filmmaker Michael Crisp did not have an easy road before him when he set out to tell the story of the 1958 Floyd County school bus disaster, an event that may have been forgotten in the rest of the...
Located in the foothills of the Appalachians, this 121-bed skilled nursing facility is in the city of Prestonsburg, Kentucky. With picturesque mountains and a beautiful downtown area that is minute...
Since 1935, Brock McVey has served multiple generations of professional Electrical, Plumbing and HVAC/R contractors throughout Kentucky. Our six statistically positioned branches are consistently u...
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