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Today's Opinions

  • Getting a thrill from strawberry hill

    After stepping from the shower on Saturday evening, I was greeted by a house full of smoke.

    The windows were open, a fan was blowing, the door between the kitchen and living room was closed, and I was stunned that I wasn’t being roused by the overbearing blare of a smoke alarm. Or maybe that was a bad sign.

    Should I call 9-1-1? Was everyone OK? Where were the flames? What had blown up?

    Well, no and nothing.

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  • WHAT WE THINK: Shelby County's outlet mall needs to succeed

    The spats and the horror now can be put behind us, and it’s time for all of us to unite and focus on the next big thing in our community:
    An outlet mall is being built in Simpsonville.

    That’s not news, we realize – certainly not to those homeowners who will live in proximity to this 374,000-square-foot enterprise – but the truth of the matter is that the opening next year of the Outlet Shoppes of Louisville creates an important milestone in the evolution of our Shelby County.

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  • WHAT WE THINK: Shelby County's outlet mall needs to succeed

    The spats and the horror now can be put behind us, and it’s time for all of us to unite and focus on the next big thing in our community:
    An outlet mall is being built in Simpsonville.

    That’s not news, we realize – certainly not to those homeowners who will live in proximity to this 374,000-square-foot enterprise – but the truth of the matter is that the opening next year of the Outlet Shoppes of Louisville creates an important milestone in the evolution of our Shelby County.

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  • WE CONGRATULATE: Duanne Puckett on her well-earned retirement

    Duanne Puckett may have retired last week from her role in publicizing Shelby County Public Schools – sort of her second retirement after leaving the leadership position of this newspaper in 1998 – but she won’t be retiring from the role of a lifetime.

    That’s because Ms. Puckett, for all her accomplishments – she is a member of the University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, among dozens of other stellar achievements – is a role model.

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  • WE CONGRATULATE: Duanne Puckett on her well-earned retirement

    Duanne Puckett may have retired last week from her role in publicizing Shelby County Public Schools – sort of her second retirement after leaving the leadership position of this newspaper in 1998 – but she won’t be retiring from the role of a lifetime.

    That’s because Ms. Puckett, for all her accomplishments – she is a member of the University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, among dozens of other stellar achievements – is a role model.

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  • MY WORD: A poisonous attack about global warming

    I have been publicly attacked by Rudy M. Wiesemann, whose paycheck has always been provided by the chemical industry, just in case you haven't already figured that out (My Word, “No need to save the planet,” May 1).

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  • MY WORD: Check the facts on climate change
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  • Embrace those spotlight moments

    Little boys and girls grow up imagining the big moment in their dream lives. For some that means hitting the game-winning home run, making the half-court shot as the buzzer sounds, playing solo in Carnegie Hall, recording a hit single or even delivering a moving speech in the halls of government.

    They stand in back yards, on playgrounds, on a balcony above a hallway, in front of the mirrors in their bedrooms. Some may hold hair brushes for microphones, hit rocks with a chipped bat or bank in a shot on a wooden backboard attached to a barn.

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