Kentucky should make voting easier, not more restrictive

There are loss­es that walk straight toward you, clean and heavy and unmis­tak­able. And then there are the oth­er ones — the ones that slip side­ways through your life, car­ry­ing a kind of ache that doesn’t announce itself so much as unrav­el you thread by thread. When my moth­er passed a year ago, February 2025, the grief came in two forms: the grief for the moth­er I had, and the grief for the moth­er I nev­er got to... 

On Tuesday, February 17, Clark County non­prof­its gath­ered at Leeds Center for the Arts to learn more about the Clark County Community Foundation (CCCF) and to cel­e­brate the incred­i­ble suc­cess of Bluegrass Gives 2025. CCCF — not to be con­fused with the Greater Clark Foundation — is a fund man­aged by Bluegrass Community Foundation (BGCF) and direct­ed by a local board of advi­sors. Since its incep­tion in 1998, CCCF has award­ed over $4 mil­lion in grants... 

The year 1889 saw a num­ber of mem­bers with­draw from the First Baptist Church on Highland Street to form a new con­gre­ga­tion, Broadway Baptist Church.  They pur­chased a lot on West Broadway for $1,300.  The Rev. R. T. Huffman went to Nashville and had a Black archi­tect draw up blue­prints for their new brick edi­fice.  The fin­ished church, declared one of the hand­somest in the state, left the con­gre­ga­tion with an indebt­ed­ness of $3,000. 

Chuck Witt pon­ders sev­er­al “odd­i­ties” of mod­ern soci­ety, such as: “Isn’t it odd that an air­port would be built with a wall at the end of the run­way instead of a long sand patch to slow a plane’s land­ing? And isn’t it odd that the same wall could eas­i­ly impede a take­off as well?”