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Kyle’s Korner: Telephoning someone in the past was a bit different
BY KYLE LOVERN FOR THE CITIZEN Things sure have changed when it comes to calling someone on the telephone. Nowadays it is nothing to see a youngster with a cellphone in hand. When we baby boomers were growing up, we were lucky to have a landline telephone in our homes. We were fortunate enough to…
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Kentuckians seem convinced that COVID is over, but they’re wrong
BY KEVIN KAVANAGH This month my family had encounters with two Lexington doctor offices. In one the staff rolled her eyes when asked about masks, parroting the misinformation that viruses are too small to be filtered, ignoring the fact that what is floating in the air are larger viral-droplet aerosols which N95 masks efficiently capture.…
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Uncommon Sense: Mental illness erupts into pure hell in Allen, Kentucky
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Allen, Kentucky, is a place that holds fond memories for me. When I was only 16 years old, Allen Baptist Church invited me to speak for a weekend youth event. I had the opportunity to meet and work with over a hundred people from the Allen community. Lasting friendships were made…
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Uncommon Sense: Happy Fourth of July
We can figure it out BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE America has always been a land of hard work and struggles but always with the hope and dream of success and prosperity. On the Fourth of July we celebrate our Declaration of Independence, ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The Second Continental…
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Uncommon Sense: A father and a child can make a great family
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Father’s Day is coming one more time, and you still have a chance at having a great family. Fathers, like most all people, have good days and bad days. They have great seasons of life and some that are more difficult. Few fathers will look back over their lives and say,…
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Kyle’s Korner: Missing the old general stores and simpler times
BY KYLE LOVERN The idea of the super department stores where you can do a lot of things in one place is not such a new marketing strategy. Many of us can remember the old general stores that were located in most communities. Sure you can go into certain large “box” stores now and get…
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Uncommon Sense: Protecting our children from the shooters
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Most federal career politicians end up very wealthy. They make good salaries and have great health insurance and very nice retirement packages. They typically develop political action committees that cover expenses the government doesn’t pay. When they retire, they can donate campaign funds they have accumulated throughout the years to their…
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Uncommon Sense: More mass killings; What is the answer?
BY GLENN MOLLETTE Do parents in America want to spend every school day hoping and praying their children will not be heinously murdered? Do children want to spend their days constantly looking up to see who might be entering their room with an assault weapon? Do you want to walk the grocery store aisles wondering…
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Fighting for the future: Kentucky on front lines of national addiction epidemic
BY TIM ROBINSONPRESIDENT/CEO OF ARC Addiction is one of the most difficult and destructive things a family can experience. It can tear people apart and, in worst-case scenarios, leave loved ones grieving and wondering if there’s anything they could have done differently. In Kentucky, the addiction crisis impacts thousands of families each and every day—and…
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Why good investigative journalism matters
BY LEE H. HAMILTON Recently, a couple of reporters at The New York Times published an intriguing story about conversations between House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and other members of his leadership team. It was shortly after the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol, and they were talking about what to do about then-President…
