Don’t shut down our post offices, let them offer needed services



You know what America needs? More jobs, that’s what. Not Walmart-style jobettes, but real jobs — stable ones with good salary and benefits, union jobs so workers have a say in what goes on, jobs that have strong protections against discrimination. A job one can make a career, do useful work in, take pride in, earn promotions and be respected […]

Challenges remain unfulfilled



Republicans are unhappy that President Obama is invoking his executive powers to govern in the face of a do-nothing-in-2014 House of Representatives. To hear them talk, you would think our chief executive is modeling himself on the late Hugo Chavez and wants to seize dictatorial control. This, of course, is nonsense. In fact, Obama has in many ways been less […]

Hillary too old? For what?



The esteemed political writer Charlie Cook recently produced a column titled “Is Hillary Clinton Too Old to Run?” Despite couching his thoughts with a mention that if Clinton were to run, she would be the same age as Ronald Reagan when he was first elected president, 69, he did venture over the sexism line. The giveaway came toward the end […]

Needed: Explanation on the cold weather

Points East

My brother Keith ( Keeter) probably planted peas on one of those warm days last week and I would not be at all surprised to find out that brother Steve did, likewise, try to be the first two fellows in Letcher County to actually be digging the soil in their 2014 gardens. Keeter’s father-in-law, the late Dock Mitchell, used to […]

The Way We Were

Clips from available Mountain Eagle pages since our founding in 1908

Thursday, March 1, 1934 The L&N Railroad is advertising the following prices for one-way passenger train tickets on Pullman cars from Whitesburg: to Hazard, 63 cents; to Jackson, $1.30; to Irvine, $2.14; to Winchester, $2.37; to Lexington, $2.65; to Cincinnati, $3.92; to Louisville, $3.92, and to Knoxville, Tenn., $5.31. . Letcher County’s indebtedness has grown to $1,050,713.78, a report from […]

Salome’s Stars



ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Take time from your busy schedule to check out what’s going on around you. You might find that someone has been secretly trying to pull the wool over those beautiful Sheep’s eyes. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Once again, the Bovine’s boldness pays off in uncovering the source of a disturbing workplace situation. […]

SPEAKING OF SOAPS

RECAPS – FEB. 24 – 28

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL — Hope was flooded with memories of her numerous failed weddings as she filled Liam in on what had transpired at Brooke and Ridge’s wedding. Liam filled Hope in on his theory regarding Katie’s recent health scare. Bill and Quinn relived their torrid past together. Brooke interrupted a private and intimate conversation between Katie and […]

Jane Potter Honors



Two break bones in falls

Jeremiah

Sorry I got so busy week before last and forgot to write a column. I thought about it on Tuesday. Forgetful seems to be my middle name lately. During the recent 10- inch snow we got, two good Jeremiah ‘girls’ fell and broke bones. Reva Adams fell at her home and broke her wrist and had to have surgery last […]

Auditions set for outdoor drama



Auditions for “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come” outdoor drama will be held Saturday, March 1, from 10 a. m. to 4: 30 p. m. and Sunday, March 2, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitesburg Campus of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. They will continue on Saturday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to 4: […]