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Drivers should watch for road work, mowing and pothole patching Thursday across several Eastern Kentucky counties. Estill: mowing on KY 89, MP 18-22. Lee: mowing on KY 399, MP 0-2, and KY 587, MP 9-12. Menifee: mowing o…
Read story →The Kentucky Blood Center will hold a blood drive at First Baptist Church in Salyersville Friday, Sept. 18, from 1 to 5 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, and donors will receive a free T-shirt. Appointments can also be schedul…
Read story →A few years ago, I started looking at the ridge that runs from the Route 30 side of Magoffin County toward Royalton and Tip Top and wondering why we did not see it differently. There was already a maintained road across…
Read story →By Ariel Fugate, Communications Manager, Mountain Association Four years after the devastating Eastern Kentucky floods of 2022, communities across the region are still rebuilding. While significant progress has been mad…
Read story →I was watching a discussion this morning about the national debt, Treasury bonds, rising yields, and the federal government buying back some of its own debt. The concern was understandable. The United States has crossed …
Read story →There is something revealing in the story of Sony receiving an estimated $508 million back in tariff refunds. Not because Sony did anything particularly unusual, and not because the refund itself is the only thing that m…
Read story →ABC News ran a headline this week blaming rising prices at Dollar Tree on President Trump’s tariffs. It is a neat little story if you do not look too closely. Tariffs go up, prices go up, and the network gets to point a …
Read story →They tell us Walmart has “always low prices.” Most people accept that without thinking much about it. Cheaper than the store down the road must mean cheaper. That’s how competition is supposed to work. Push prices down.…
Read story →The Steward’s Works Program Eastern Kentucky does not suffer from a lack of problems that need solved. You can see them almost everywhere you drive. A culvert clogged for years. A drainage ditch overtaken by brush. A …
Read story →There is a scene in The Sandlot that I’ve always loved. The boys are playing baseball as fireworks explode overhead on the Fourth of July. The whole town seems to be outside. People are gathered on porches, kids are runn…
Read story →If you spend enough time in Eastern Kentucky, you start noticing something in people’s voices when they talk about institutions now. Not outrage so much as exhaustion. The kind that settles into a place after people spen…
Read story →If you want to understand the failure of modern economics, spend some time in Eastern Kentucky. Drive through towns with leaking water systems and roads still scarred from floods. Pass abandoned industrial sites and nei…
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