Letters
Appreciates road crews
Between frigid temperatures and snowstorms, the winter of 2010 will be one we will not quickly forget. Snow and ice, compounded with the freezing temperatures day-after-day, have caused hazardous ...
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Too much spending
I chuckled in amazement at the outrage directed at Sen. Jim Bunning regarding his no vote on extending jobless benefits. People in this nation are so short-sighted, selfish and uninformed these da...
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Setting the record straight
It was brought to my attention that a letter to the editor printed on Feb. 26 has conveyed some very inaccurate information regarding former state Rep. Chuck Meade’s record at the Capitol. Before...
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Vote for intelligence
We have a candidate running for county judge-executive that has already started to whine. Chuck Meade implies that he will have difficulty meeting the job criteria, in my opinion: Platform strateg...
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Appreciates mudslide coverage
I am writing you concerning the evacuated families of the Wheelwright mud slides caused by the old, abandoned mines located behind their homes. We are Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Floyd Count...
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Not for Marshall
I recently saw an advertisement in your paper for Floyd Countians to re-elect Doc Marshall for county judge-executive. I am asking Floyd County to vote against him. I was in his office on four sep...
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Little done for working folks
by Charles Scoville, of Ivel
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President Obama finally made a half-hearted gesture to the working man and small business in his State of the Union speech. If small businesses buy certain equipment, they will get tax breaks, and ...
Coal a necessity for Kentucky
by Ira B. Potter, M.D., of Lackey
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I felt like I needed to respond to the letters of some of your well-intentioned but misinformed readers. “Coal bashing” in Kentucky is like “petroleum bashing” in Saudi Arabia. It has been my exper...
Repeal Medicare ‘therapy cap’
by Sandy Roberts, Big Sandy Physical Therapy
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Many of your readers may be unaware that a hard cap on all Medicare beneficiaries’ physical therapy care went into place on Jan. 1. I am referring to the financial limit on the amount of therapy ca...
The people are speaking
by Charles Scoville, of Ivel
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Well, the election of Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts echoes the messages already sent to Washington with the prior losses of Democrats in the November governor’s races. The people ...
Appreciates city’s beauty
by Carolyn Ford, of Prestonsburg
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I really meant to write this letter last year, and maybe the year before, because I want to tell everyone how much my son and I appreciate all the decorations we see for all the “special days” on o...
ATC students are ‘seeds of recovery’
by Michael L. Kindred, Deputy Executive Director of Office of Career and Technical Education, Frankfort
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It was my pleasure to participate in the Kentucky Tech-Floyd County Area Technology Center’s annual fall steering committee meeting, led by Principal Lenville Martin. I want to thank businesses and...
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