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Presidential assassins and national notoriety
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Cole Thoms Allen recently tried to kill President Donald Trump. The 31-year-old from Torrance, California, has been charged with attempted assassination, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and illegally transporting firearms and ammunition across state lines. Cole rode Amtrak all the way from California to check into the Washington…
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Trump needs a new slogan: MTWGA
Dear Editor, Almost anyone can bankrupt a company. Some do it four to five times. With a little effort one can send a whole country into recession. However, it takes real talent to foul up the whole world economy. Trump needs a new slogan. Forget MAGA. How about MTWGA: Make the World Grieve Again. Or…
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Martin County deserves funds for clean water
Martin County Judge Executive Lon Lafferty and his staff deserve a huge congratulations for securing nearly $26 million in funding for water and sewer improvements in this rural eastern Kentucky county. For years, Martin County residents have suffered through terrible and outdated infrastructure – brown, murky water coming from faucets. And sometimes there is little…
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Our time is precious
BY GLENN MOLLETTE We should never put off till tomorrow what we can do today. The biggest problem with this is that we can’t do everything today. Life has to be spaced out, and we have to hope and pray that we will have the opportunity to do some or most of what we would…
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Missing scientists and general a real mystery
I am not always a believer in conspiracy theories, but where there is smoke there is usually fire. The first news most heard on this topic was about the February disappearance of retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland. This missing person case brought attention to earlier incidents involving specialists in aerospace, defense and…
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The sad ending of Justin Fairfax
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE According to media reports former Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax recently murdered his wife, Cerina. He then took his own life. He was only 47 years old. She was 48. Justin Fairfax had been a rising star in the Democratic Party, having served as the Lieutenant Governor in Virginia from 2018 to…
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Memories of the Thomas Joyland Carnival
About this time in the spring, I start thinking of one of my best childhood memories. In April, the Thomas Joyland Carnival would make its way into Williamson for a week. These types of carnivals would travel around to small towns to set up for the entertainment of the locals. They were usually based in…
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Iran and global uncertainty
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE A cloud of uncertainty has settled over the world. The Iran war affects us all in every corner of the planet. Once again, we see how dependent our planet is on oil, and once again, America is fighting a war in the Middle East. This does not feel good to Americans…
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Kentuckians want a senator, not a rubber stamp
BY AL CROSS This column was written before Tuesday night’s debate among four candidates in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. “Kentucky is in play this year. Believe it,” U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath told her email list last week. Perhaps she felt obliged to add those two words because so few people think…
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Space launch brings back memories
NASA’s first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years is underway, bringing back memories of when I was a youngster growing up at Nolan. I can recall the early space programs in the 1960s. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight…
