As a University of Kentucky student during the late 1970s, my pride was wounded by some who wanted to put down my region. I was uplifted by professors, such as Gerald Alvey, who assured us that mountain people were just independent, not willing to accept authority, bound and determined to make their own rules and to live and die by the code of the hills. A new world driven by a new generation By Sam Baker, Contributing Columnist General Motors recently announced the discontinuation of Oldsmobile, one of the oldest cars in America. Oldsmobile simply could not appeal to younger car buyers. They appeal largely to younger audiences.
Money sure makes strange bedfellows.
I can tell by the tone of U.S. Sens. Robert Byrd's and Mitch McConnell's voices that it's payback time. The coal industry has them dangling on a string. Wrong to blame guns Once again, a school shooting has occurred. Once again, columnist John Ed Pearce has begun his predictable, ineffectual whine for more gun control laws.