Daily Independent (Ashland, KY)

Editorials

October 29, 2009

'Fall back' — 010/31/09

Extra hour provides a chance to get more done this Sunday

For the record, Sunday is the longest day of the year — 25 hours. We gain that extra hour as we “fall back” from daylight saving time to standard time.

To celebrate this long day, we repeat a modest proposal: Use that extra hour to do some of those little odd jobs that there never seem to be enough hours in the day to do. We all have them: Balancing the checkbook, tightening the loose hinge on the back door, closing the storm windows in preparation for winter, exchanging the summer clothes in your closets and dressers with the winter clothes stored in the attic or basement, cleaning out the “junk drawer” — the list is endless. Or you can sleep an extra hour or spend more time with the family.

However, we do not recommend spending the hour sitting in front of the church or arriving early for a ballgame, because you forgot about the time change.

We say all this as a reminder to turn your clocks back an hour before going to bed tonight — and to get us all to think about how we spend out time on this and other days.

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  • Charles Chattin

    Before it merged with Ashland Community College to form Ashland Community and Technical College as a result of the 1997 Higher Education Reform Act, the Ashland Area Vocational-Technical School compiled an impressive record for teaching job skills to young adults and placing more than 85 percent in jobs for which they were trained.
     

    February 10, 2012

  • Try again

    It is time for Kentucky Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, and Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, to cease playing political games and redraw district lines that are compact and are based far more on population changes during the first decade of this century than on partisan politics.

    February 9, 2012

  • 'Asset poor'

    More than one in four Kentucky households are “asset poor,” meaning that they are living from paycheck to paycheck with little or no financial cushion to fall back on should they suddenly lose their jobs or have another emergency resulting in a temporary loss of or delcine in income.

    February 7, 2012

  • Safer mines

    The head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) says coal operators throughout the country are improving their operations and, as a result, mines are becoming safer. However, MSHA chief Joe Main said too many coal operators still “don’t get it” and are continuing to cut costs by ignoring safety. That’s why MSHA plans to continue targeting mines with a history of repeated violations for additional inspections.

    February 7, 2012

  • Not far enough

    For the past three sessions of the Kentucky General Assembly, bills that would raise the minimum dropout age from 16 to 18 have been approved by the Kentucky House of Representatives by wide bipartisan margins only to die in the Senate without even a vote.
    Now the Senate Education Committee has unanimously approved a dropout bill  hailed as an alternative to the House bill, but it does not go nearly far enough. It is a halfway measure that would have only a limited effect on preventing teenagers from quitting high school before graduation and virtually assuring themselves of lives on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.
     

    February 6, 2012

  • Not their job

    The local government committee of the Kentucky House of Representatives has wisely killed a bill — dubbed “Cooper’s Law” — that would have allowed the family of the Lexington toddler with cerebral palsy to have a playhouse on their property despite a deed restriction that apparently prohibits such structures.

    February 6, 2012

  • Keeping FADE

    Despite an increase in cost to the department, Carter County Sheriff Casey Brammell told the Carter County Fiscal Court that his department will continue to be active in the FIVCO Area Development Drug Enforcement (FADE) Task Force — at least for now.

    February 4, 2012

  • Needed changes

    The soaring enrollment that Kentucky’s community and technical colleges have experienced in recent years could come to a sudden  end — or at least be slowed — as about 5,500 students in the statewide system that includes Ashalnd Community and Technical College are expected to lose their financial aid under new rules being implemented by the federal government.

    February 3, 2012

  • Released early

    While it is disappointing that 75 of the 952 prisoners granted early release in January have violated the terms of their releases, the good news is that none of the former inmates have been charged with new felonies. That’s an early, but positive, indication that the nonviolent felons released before their sentences were up have been carefully selected and are among those least likely to return to a life of crime.
     

    February 2, 2012

  • Obese children

    Almost a decade after former Gov. Ernie Fletcher called childhood obesity an “epidemic” in Kentucky, a majority of Kentucky adults still think that there are too many overweight children in the state and they place the bulk of the blame squarely on the shoulders of their parents.

    February 1, 2012

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