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Drug court is not a ‘get-out-of-jail’ card
From the program’s humble beginnings in Martin County with just three participants in a pilot program back in 2003, drug court has evolved, dispelling the misconception that it is a “get-out-of-jail” card. Instead, it has become a transformative force that offers individuals an opportunity to reclaim their lives. Drug court graduation day in Inez symbolizes…
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Choose your company carefully
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE A friend will do his best to prevent you from driving off a cliff. Your enemy will give you directions to the cliff and happily watch you plunge to your destruction. A friend cares enough to caution you about financial decisions or bad investments. Your enemy will be glad to see…
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Glass soda pop bottles meant money back in the day
BY KYLE LOVERN Many kids today have money and a steady allowance. They never have to worry about buying things, and that’s OK. But back in the 1960s, we would turn in reusable pop bottles for money. If you lived near a grocery store in most communities, you could turn in those glass bottles for…
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Enjoy your stuff, but be prepared to let it go
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE One of the perils of life is putting too much value on “stuff.” Stuff can be about anything. It can consist of what we have or what we don’t have. Much of life is about our stuff. Our house, cars, things in the house. Things around the house and things in…
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Remembering fallen heroes
BY SENATOR PHILLIP WHEELER The arrival of Memorial Day has come to feel like the start of summer, especially with so many students’ school years ending across the commonwealth. During the holiday weekend, families across our state will begin their yearly traditions and the memory-making we all enjoy. These moments with family and friends would…
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Freedoms
Dear Editor: Smith & Wesson made all people equal. Now our government is attempting to set us peasants back into caveman times. Just think of all the men and women who gave their very lives for our hard-earned freedoms. Crime is all around us daily. Drugs are all around us daily. Here’s a thought, shut…
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About that ‘border crisis’
BY THOMAS L. KNAPP I’m seeing a lot of back and forth lately on whether or not there’s a “crisis” at the border, with greatly increased migration and limited ability on the part of law enforcement to respond. Personally, I don’t consider it a “crisis” at all. Immigration is just people moving from one place…
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Corporate socialism
Editor: Hal Rogers recently awarded the Martin County Fiscal Court $3.1 million to “improve the sewer system.” You’d think free money would be heralded with a public announcement and maybe a parade. Instead, it was quietly awarded by the Big Sandy Area Development District (ADD) at a special meeting called Friday (March 31) afternoon meeting. …
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Mother’s Day and your time
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE You may have lost your mother early in life or never really knew your mother. My two sons were only 17 and 20 when their mother passed at the age of 49 from multiple sclerosis. Mother’s Day is a tough day for them and many others around the world. This day…
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Terrible ideas + evil actions /= ‘mental illness’
BY THOMAS KNAPP “One problem I have with the whole ‘mental illness’ frame for talking about mass shooters,” Paul Campos writes at Lawyers, Guns & Money, “is that the ‘mental illness’ often appears to be garden variety authoritarian ethno-nationalist misogyny, with the misogyny being the really critical ideological lynchpin [sic].” Campos is riffing on reports…
