Editorial — Are we at a tipping point?
byWe’ve all heard it — the more things change, the more they stay the same. But perhaps not this time. There is a great…
We’ve all heard it — the more things change, the more they stay the same. But perhaps not this time. There is a great…
Recently while dining at a local eatery — a cut above fast-food but a level below “reservations only,” — a couple took notice of…
Back during the Red-scare days of the late 1940s and 1950s, there was a radio program called “Family Theater.” Occasionally an episode or two…
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Any journalist worth his or her salt will tell you, consistently, that newspapers — especially in their new and often smaller form these days…
It seems to begin almost at birth, this ingrained response that makes us avoid assuming responsibility. You see it in youngsters who are quick…
There was a time in the Archdiocese of Louisville when any conversation about vocations — or the need for increased vocations — was usually…
It’s been more than a month since the abominable mass killing at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut, and in the weeks since, hundreds of…
Several years ago one of Kentucky’s greatest natural resources — poet, author, conservationist and farmer Wendell Berry — spoke to a gathering during the…