Opinions

Bills would hurt workers, poor

Editorial

Do you like being paid time-and-a-half for overtime? Do you like having time off for lunch? Do you like having a 10-minute break twice a day? If Republicans in the Kentucky General Assembly get their way, you can kiss it all goodbye. A bill to take those and other rights away from Kentucky workers has already been passed by the […]

A growth plan that’s well worth our imagining

Over the past 117 years, The Mountain Eagle has reported on written economic development plans for Letcher County an inestimable number of times. Rarely has one succeeded. But the current plan presented last week by Pine Mountain Partnership just feels different. The main difference, to us, is that this was made by local people, not a state or federal agency […]

Plan for water treatment plant is more good news

Letcher County might have had too much water when it came to flooding in 2022, but there’s not enough when it comes to water that’s drinkable. We would be remiss if we did not recognize the hard work of Letcher County Water and Sewer District to address that need. Overall, about 60 percent of the people in Letcher County now […]

It’s clear schools need more money for staffing pay

Warren County Schools Superintendent Rob Clayton of Bowling Green is not wrong when he says Kentucky schools are in need of more funding to address staffing shortages. The commonwealth must be competitive with salaries of other states in the region. Clayton is pressing legislators for more money for schools in the Kentucky biennial budget, which is being addressed in Frankfort […]

Much more can be done


“Turn on the TV,” my friend Annie said. No hello — it has to be something bad. “The Super Bowl.” At first I thought Las Vegas. But no, this must be Kansas City. A shooting. One woman dead. Twenty-two people shot. Eleven children. Here we go again. What could be more American? The schools were closed. A million people gathered […]

Political Cartoon

How and what Presidents spend money on really does matter


What matters is not just the sum by which presidents jack up the deficit. It’s what the money is spent on. Franklin D. Roosevelt added more to the national debt by percentage than any other president. America needed that borrowing to dig itself out of the Great Depression and then win World War II. The spending was necessary. Money can […]

Political Cartoon

U.S. oil production, clean energy are both booming right now


Donald Trump recently warned that Joe Biden would lead us into World War II, a conflict that ended almost 80 years ago. Another world event he may not be current on is America’s boom in oil production — never mind the green energy revolution. “We are going to drill, baby, drill,” Trump said on a recent Fox News town hall. […]

Political Cartoon


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