Opinion

College football season kicks off this week and with that comes a lot of chatter about who is number one.

Alabama and Florida State are drawing the most attention from the pundits, but there are dark horses.

Some experts like Georgia, UCLA or Big 12 titan Oklahoma, but there is one that everyone is overlooking, in fact many never think of it.

Shelby County, Kentucky is making a strong claim for Number 1.

As the time to collect signatures slips away, we think it’s important to remind our community what a vote to make our county wet would mean.

First and foremost, signing the petition does not make the county’s change to wet a “done deal” as some seem to think.

Instead, it only gives the opportunity for the people to decide.

Secondly, this decision is solely an economic one, it has very little to do with drinking.

Joseph Ellis in his book “Founding Brothers” nailed it when he said, “It seems safe to say that some sort of representative government based on the principle of popular sovereignty and some form of market economy fueled by the energies of individual citizens have become the commonly accepted ingredients for natural success throughout the world.”

How more succinctly could he put it? What is so hard to understand? What is wrong with being FREE to choose your own destiny?

In the April edition of Readers Digest there is an article by David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times entitled “The Stem and the Flower.”

A recent encounter with some local medical professionals has left me wondering how, and why, there is a facility in Shelbyville known as a “hospital.”  After dealing with my father’s passing in January 2014, my mother had two questionable mammograms this spring, which lead her doctor to prescribe a needle biopsy, or a stereotactic biopsy.  The procedure was scheduled for June 23, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. at Shelbyville’s Jewish Hospital.

A few weeks ago, a large crowd of family and friends turned out to celebrate the landmark birthday of a man whose landmark enterprise helped to feed a generation of you.

This man in 1967 set up shop at the far eastern extreme of Shelbyville, where he began to cook up burgers and rings to feed the McDonald’s-less, fast-food-craving young masses of Shelby County, which he accomplished to an amazing level of success.

That restaurant was Burger Queen, and its king was LaMar Nutt.

The Shelbyville American Legion Post 37 baseball team wrapped up its fifth state title on Friday, earning a trip to the regional tournament later this week in Ashboro, N.C.

This squad put together one of the best seasons in Shelby County history going 25-1 in the regular season and steam rolling the state tournament.

What makes it even more impressive is that manager Jim Wiley continues to man the helm of a team that he’s led for 30 years.

There’s a running commercial for a credit card company that asks the question, “What’s in your wallet?” The implication of the question is that the credit card you choose to carry says something significant about you.

Of course, the intention of the ad is to convince us that a discerning individual wants to make sure they are carrying this company’s credit card.  Though I do not completely buy the sales pitch of this commercial, I have come to realize that what we choose to carry through our daily life says something about us.

This is from an article in the Wall St. Journal on July 19 entitled “This Way Up” featuring 18-year-old Dakota Blazier who will forgo a college degree in favor of a blue-collar career. He will join the 70 percent of Americans 25-and-older without college degrees.