People love labels: black, white, Democrat, Republican, Protestant, Catholic, conservative, liberal, Jew, Christian, Muslim.
Labels tell who is similar to us and who is different.
Human conflict — from ancient wars to the terrorism that dominates today’s headlines — has often resulted from people focusing on their differences, rather than their similarities.
For [...]
Have you ever wondered where the money goes when Kentuckians choose to pay a little extra for one of those pretty Share the Road license plates?
Some of it goes to pay for the reminder signs you see on roads. And $9,300 of it will soon be used to [...]
Susan Getgood has the goods. Watch the webinar, read her analysis. It's good. [...] I’m worried about the financial state of journalism.
Digital technology has given news papers more readers than ever. Ironically, though, that technology means newspapers no longer are the dominant force in advertising, from where the money to support journalism has always come.
To make matters worse, most newspapers are owned by big [...]
This is Global Entrepreneurship Week, and it couldn’t come at a better time.
We’re just beginning to climb out of the biggest economic slump since the Great Depression. Bad economic times beg for good ideas, and the only way those ideas can make a difference is when entrepreneurs turn them [...]
At the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center’s conference last month, people talked about how much more economic progress this state could make if cities and their surrounding counties worked together.
Jim Host thinks they’re right — but that they’re thinking too small. That’s no surprise; few Kentuckians think as big as [...]
Dear Republicans,
Other duties have me tied up this. Next week probably will be the same. And the week after that, I’m taking some time off for the holidays. Don’t know when normality will return.
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There was a remarkable public forum at the University of Kentucky on Thursday. The moderator began by saying it reminded him of the old song Which Side Are You On?
Florence Reece, a miner’s wife, wrote that song about the economic controversies surrounding coal in Harlan County in the 1930s. Thursday’s [...]
Hilarious. Saturday Night Live does a moment of FOX "News" latest election "coverage:It’s astounding when you think about it: Lexington Mall has been dead or dying since before this year’s high school graduates were born.
It’s even more astounding when you realize that the 30-acre site could be one of the hottest pieces of real estate in Lexington if it were redeveloped by [...]
When people in Lexington talk about great high school marching bands, the names Lafayette and Paul Laurence Dunbar always come up.
But as with many things in Kentucky, there is a lot of greatness beyond the big cities, out in the small towns and rural counties that so often define this [...]
Sunday’s column:
This and that as the morphing of the state Senate continues:
Frankfort’s worst-kept secret in recent memory produced its expected conclusion when Gov. Steve Beshear picked former Senate Majority Leader Dan Kelly to fill a vacant seat on the 11th Judicial Circuit bench. Funny, isn’t it, how the months of [...]
The preliminaries of the Kentucky High School Marching Band Championships have concluded, and finalists will gather tonight at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium in Louisville for judges to decide the best bands in the state.
Preliminaries in the five divisions, based on school size, were held earlier today around Louisville.
Here are more [...]
The Kentucky High School Marching Band championships are under way today with perfect weather at Papa John Stadium in Louisville. Here are some photos from morning competition of Tates Creek, Henry Clay, Marshall County and George Rogers Clark High Schools.
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[...] Kentucky doesn’t just produce writers; it celebrates them.
The biggest annual celebration is Saturday, when about 200 writers — 150 of whom are Kentuckians — will gather at the Frankfort Convention Center for the 28th annual Kentucky Book Fair.
Authors will sit behind long rows of tables so thousands of readers [...]
I’m not dancing yet, but I got lucky and had the “one week on crutches” version of knee surgery. So, I’m back to being a kurmudgeonly editorial writer/columnist/blogger.
[...]Maybe creating a vibrant downtown isn’t so much about grand plans as small spaces.
One small space with potential is the block of North Mill Street between West Main and Short streets. It retains most of its old buildings, which now house places to eat, drink and work. Developer Nick Ebbitt [...]
Those who know me best call me "concrete sequential," which is a nice way of saying I can't walk and chew gum at the same time. So when Emily McKhann at The Motherhood asked me to help spread the word about their new campaign to' [...] 
I wouldn't mind finding this under the Christmas tree. I'd RATHER find a job, but this guitar shirt from ThinkGeek still looks pretty awesome:
Not sure about the story line I've seen but the graphics, etc look FANTASTIC, "Avatar" coming out 12-18-09:
Someone probably already thought of this idea, probably more than one person, but it seems cool to me anyway and it's easily accomplished, thanks to groups like Open Secrets.
With our killer drones and our DEA we'll have their hearts and minds in no time...well, maybe a few decades anyway. Let's ask Russia again how this all worked out for them.
I contributed a quick "what to watch for" piece for my pals at Earth and Industry about the UN meeting in Copenhagen in December. Go read it if you're feeling generous.' [...]
Damn, who woulda thunk it? Harry Reid pulls out the Public Option. With an "opt-out" provision, but still.I’m scheduled to get a knee scoped Wednesday. If I’m lucky, I’ll be bouncing around again in one week. If I’m unlucky, I won’t do any bouncing for four weeks. Since it’s my right (driving) knee, guess which I prefer.
Anyway, if it’s the unlucky option, I may do some blogging [...]
In case you missed them, the Herald-Leader carried two excellent op-ed columns Sunday and Monday from two of Lexington’s most knowledgeable and passionate advocates for smart growth and preservation of what’s special in the Bluegrass.
Here’s the Sunday piece by Knox van Nagell, executive director of The Fayette Alliance.
I wrote Sunday about last week’s Shakertown Roundtable, which featured former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and included more than 50 of Kentucky’s most influential leaders in business, government, academia and philanthropy.
Given the complexity of the topic — economic crisis and recovery — and the caliber of the panel and [...]
President Obama gave a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday "challenging Americans to lead the global economy in clean energy." Once again, thanks to the magic of Wordle, I pushed it through their cloud generator and got this:Paul Volcker, who was chairman of the Federal Reserve under presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and is a top adviser to President Barack Obama, has earned a reputation as one of the rarest of creatures: a straight-talking economist.
Volcker was true to form Thursday, when he came to Kentucky to [...]
Sunday’s column:
That didn’t take long.
Prominent members of his party take Senate President David Williams publicly to task for blocking any resolution of the gambling debate, and it suddenly starts raining proposed constitutional amendments sponsored by Senate Republicans. One of them even comes from the obstructionist himself.
Of course, Williams’ amendment wouldn’t [...]
This is the first question the Irish Prime Minister gets when he arrives at an EU summit...
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Interesting to see where this goes. LED eyelashes by 
