Opinion

When Diageo announced its intention to open a full scale, large operation distillery in Shelby County we were both pleased and a bit surprised.

While officials had commented that large distilleries were looking at the area, we were starting to think that it might never happen.

During the hot summer of 1787 in Philadelphia Penn., the delegates to the Constitutional Convention came to a rut in the road. The group, whose goal fell nothing short of drawing up the legal framework for a whole new nation, had fractured into exhausting squabbles.

One delegate, Ben Franklin, decided to try to focus everyone’s attention on that goal and gave a speech proposing that if they could not come to an accord on their own, they might need some divine assistance in the form of a prayer led by outside clergy.

I don’t know how the following is connected to conservation, but bear with me.

In A chapter in Klanthhammer’s book “Things that Matter,” there is a passage about collective guilt – which is never far from my mind – that triggered memories of “separate but equal” laws.

As we cast our votes and watched voters fill voting precincts – well, at least the few that turned out Tuesday – we couldn’t help but notice how many locations were placed in schools.

According to Kentucky Revised Statute, school cannot be in session if a school is used as polling precinct.

We understand that schools cannot have voters wandering the halls and common areas while in session. The safety issues for students would be a logistical nightmare.

Eighty-seven percent of teens recently reported on a Gallup Youth Survey that their lives have an overall purpose, and a powerful impulse to serve other people and society as a whole pervades many of the comments of those interviewed.

Because I label myself a conservative you probably automatically assume I’m a card-carrying member of the NRA.

Wrong. Don’t own a firearm. Not particularly fond of the taste of wild game and Dad forcefully once made the point I should never kill anything I wasn’t going to eat unless it was trying to eat me. There is nothing in our home worth killing someone to prevent its theft—except us. That’s where we draw the line.

Against a Fairness Ordinance

In reference your Editorial, “Lets give fairness a fair shake,” [April 9, The Sentinel-News.

First, I know of no one that would discriminate toward those who practice this lifestyle and, although my friends may find it inappropriate, or if Christian against scripture, they do not limit them in normal ways.

One of the best things about living in Kentucky and near Louisville is being known for the Kentucky Derby.

No matter where you go – nationally or internationally – the first thing people bring up when they hear that you’re from Kentucky is horse racing. Well, maybe basketball and bourbon, too, but for now let’s stick with horses.

That’s why Derby weekend is so much fun. Thousands descend on our area for a uniquely Kentucky weekend.

Recently someone left a clipped out episode of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoon in our mailbox.

I don’t know why.

I admit to looking at a few cartoons like Blondie, Dennis, Beatle Bailey hoping to find something amusing, and sometimes I do. I even occasionally look at Doonesbury to see if I can understand it. Never do. This episode is primarily a phone conversation between someone from the GOP and what I presume to be a PR firm.

The GOP guy says: “We need to prove that raising the minimum wage would hurt the economy.”