2011-03-30

SOCCER —



LCCHS Lady Cougars have winning season



The Letcher County Central High School Lady Cougars soccer team finished the season with a record of 22-1. The team was undefeated until the championship game of the 16th Region, and claimed its third straight 32nd District title. The 32nd District consists of LCC, Perry County Central, Hazard, Buckhorn, and Jackson City. The varsity roster for the Lady Cougars was […]

Political Cartoon



Japan’s quake jolts U.S. jobs



The corporate chieftains who’ve relentlessly pushed American factories and our middle-class jobs offshore rationalize their globalization of production by declaring that it’s all about efficiency, as though that’s the highest value to which a civilization can aspire. Values aside, however, the problem with corporate efficiencies is that too often they are not. Not efficient, that is. While the corporate scheme […]

E.J. Dionne

Surprising new class politics

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. The battle for the Midwest is transforming American politics. Issues of class inequality and union influence, long dormant, have come back to life. And a part of the country that was integral to the Republican surge of 2010 is shifting away from the GOP just a few months later. Republican governors, particularly in Wisconsin and Ohio, denied themselves […]

Froma Harrop

When government was a bear

Are conservatives right that our government has become overbearing? Is it true that the rights of the individual, enshrined at the dawn of the Republic and cried over by Glenn Beck, are being smashed by the modern state? One doesn’t have to be a conservative to list offensive government interventions. (I don’t think the feds have any business ripping up […]

Connie Schultz

You benefit, too

Last week marked the 100th anniversary of the fire that killed 146 workers, most of them women and girls, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York. As conservative lawmakers across the country attempt to infect the electorate with anti-union fever, the anniversary is a timely reminder of the early role women played in America’s labor movement and how all […]

Car Talk



Start-stop technology is coming Dear Tom and Ray: I wonder if it is possible to take one feature from a hybrid car and use it on a regular car to save gas. When stopped at a red light or stop sign, or dead cold in a traffic jam, why can’t a regular car have the feature that simply shuts off […]

Harrellson rises up from comic relief to cult figure



LEXINGTON Kentucky center Josh Harrellson could hear the murmurs when the NCAA ruled freshman big man Enes Kanter permanently ineligible in January. The thought was the Wildcats were done without the highly recruited Kanter. That they couldn’t thrive relying on Harrellson, a little-used reserve who played all of 88 minutes as junior, to serve as their only post presence. Harrellson […]

Connie Hall dies



Connie Mae Hall, 88, died March 24 at her home at Millstone. Born at Thornton to the late Archie Columbus and Clara Spangler, she was the widow of Alex Hall. She was a grandmother of the late Michelle Hall, Bobby Joe Hall, Ann Stidham Ratliff and Jonathan Stidham, and a great-grandmother of the late Daniel Charles Stidham. She was a […]