ASHLAND —
Redeem yourself, Mitch McConnell
Sometime back, I remember U.S. Sen. Mich McConnell saying that his main goal was to be sure that President Obama would be a one-term president.
The results are now in and President Obama has been elected to a second term. McConnell has been shown to be a complete failure in accomplishing what he claimed was his main goal.
Now that the snator has been exposed as a failure in what he considered his main job, perhaps he could devote a little more time and effort to the legislative process rather than sitting with arms crossed and pouting like a spoiled child.
As it turns out, the Kentuckians who elected McConnell have always thought that legislator should have been his job description rather than obstructor.
The election is over. Get to work, Senator McConnell, and redeem yourself by legislating over the remaining months of your term.
Thomas Williams, Ashland
30 under 30 is real tribute
What a marvelous tribute and documentary to those 30 under 30 who are making great strides to live work and enjoy life here in the region!
The Insight section is a testament and tribute to the will and belief many have in resurrecting the Tri-State to what it was and what it can be for all!
I know some of those profiled and am glad to say they have a passion and commitment to the making a difference right here in the place we all chose to call home and not run off to some big city, grass-is-greener thinking place.
I applaud the efforts of the Independent for this journalistic recognition, as I myself was one of the recent 40 over 40 documented persons in the news. May we all work together and take action to make a difference for the positive future and potential progress of our region.
Vincenzo Fressola, President, Ashland Rotary Club, Ashland
Night Without Home is Nov. 15
National Hunger and Homeless Awareness week is November 10-18.
From 10 a.m to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15, Shelter of Hope, in collaboration with Ashland Community Kitchen and Neighbors Helping Neighbors, will be hosting a ”Stand Down” at the The Neighborhood on 2516 Carter Ave. in Ashland. This event will bring several agencies together at one site, at the same time, for one purpose. That purpose is to provide direct services and resources to families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in the Boyd and Greenup county area.
Some of the services and resources available include veteran initiatives, housing, medical, counseling, food, clothing, employment, education and more.
The Shelter of Hope will also be spending one Night Without A Home on the streets of Ashland, during the evening of Nov. 16 from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. (Rain, shine, sleet or snow)
This awareness-raising event is open to individuals and groups who are looking for a humbling experience focusing on the physical aspects of homelessness, just one week before the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be guest speakers, music, candle-light vigil and prayer, as well as other activities throughout the evening.
We’re asking that all participants bring a collection of toiletry items to help stock our pantry. Participants should also dress warmly and bring their own chair or box to sit on.
Join us on the vacant lot behind First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at 1930 Winchester Ave., Ashland.
Candy Goldie, VISTA, Public Relations Coordinator, Shelter of Hope, Ashland
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Funding Rupp
The use of $2.5 million in coal severance tax revenue to help pay for renovations at Rupp Arena in Lexington has drawn the ire of some county leaders in the eastern Kentucky coalfields.
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Modest increase
Full-time students at Ashland Community and Technical College will be paying an average of $60 more in tuition this fall under a modest 2.86 percent increase approved Friday by the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents.
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The next step
The people — or at least those who took the time to vote in Tuesday’s special election — have spoken. The issue of alcohol sales in Grayson has ben settled for at least the next three years.
In an outcome that surprised many, Grayson voters rather convincingly for the legal sale of alcohol in the city for the first time since 1937. With 511 voters answering in the affirmative to the question, “Are you in favor of alcoholic beverages in Grayson, Ky.?” as opposed to 393 voting “no,” the results were not even close. The measure passed in all seven of the city’s precincts. -
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Top Father
In the Spade family, the vote was unanimous. Both 12-year-old Emma Spade, who will be a seventh-grader at Verity Middle School this fall, and Emma’s 11-year-old brother Will, who attends Hagar Elementary, both thought so highly of their dad — Ponderosa Elementary School principal Matt Spade — that they both wrote essays nominating him for the Ashland Breakfast Kiwanis Club’s annual Father of the Year award, presented annually on the Tuesday before Father’s Day.
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An unselfish act
Even before the start of the recent Boyd County Health Department’s Bicycle Rodeo, Gavin Eckard said that if he won one of the two bicycle given away at the event, he would give his new bike to someone who needed it more than he did.
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Crop still banned
When their colleagues in the U.S. Senate rejected their efforts to legalize industrial hemp production as part of the Senate farm bill, Kentucky’s two Republican senators — Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and freshman Rand Paul — reacted to the Senate refusal to include their hemp proposal in the bill by saying they would oppose the comprehensive farm bill.
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It's not the breed
Lorie Akers wants the Ashland City Commissioner to adopt an ordinance banning pit bulls in the city. Since she claimed her Chihuahua Paco was attacked and killed by a neighbor’s pit bull while the little dog was chained in the back yard, it is understandable that Akers is worried that her children and other pets could be endangered by pit bulls.
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