Today's Opinions

We would like to thank our great friends and neighbors, the Manning family, Acker family, Schaffer family, Edwards family, Keefe family, Berry family, and all the others that have called, offered help and opened their homes, but most of all their prayers. Without you we would have not made it through.

The Williams family

Waterford

Editor’s note: The Williams family have been milking their 45 cows by hand twice each day since they lost power last Tuesday.

Kentucky lawmakers are on the verge of a crucial decision in the coming weeks – whether to support Gov. Steve Beshear’s call to raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 30 cents to $1. As I finish out my tenure as Kentucky’s education commissioner, I am championing that action.

While the rest of America spent the last several days focusing their attention on the inauguration of President Barack Obama, many Spencer Countians seem to have another American idol on their minds – someone right here in our own backyard.