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I read it.  And paused.  I read it again.  I really wanted to be sure that I was truly understanding what I was reading.  Here it is: 

Two steps forward and one step back can be a frustrating endeavor.  We are glad the Butler County School District hasn’t made that mistake as it moves toward the safe reopening of facilities and in-person classes for the upcoming academic year.

Turner Broadcasting System(TBS) traces its roots to a billboard company in Savannah, Georgia purchased by Robert Edward Turner II in the late 1940’s.  Turner grew the business, which later became known as Turner Advertising Company.  Robert Edward Turner’s son, Ted Turner, inherited the company when the elder Turner died in 1963.  After taking over the company, Turner expand

Guidelines and warnings regarding the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in many of us failing to show others that we care about them as we normally would. I do what is necessary, but not much of what I would like to do, such as visiting family and friends who may be discouraged, lonely, sick or grieving. Yet, I could show that I care in many other ways.

I have always said I hate a rough police force more than all the bad men in the world. That may be some exaggerated but not much.One expects bad men to act bad but not those sworn to protect and serve. I:m speaking of the murder of George Floyd recently by a law officer. 

In the basement of the house where my husband, Garey, grew up, there is an old refrigerator that his mom, Aggie, calls the “ice box.”  It’s not really an ice box in the manner of the first refrigerators that used actual blocks of ice in order to keep the content in the box cool.  No, this is a refrigerator, albeit one of the first models.  On the front of the “ice box” is a Little Henry magnet.  Little Henry (also known simply as Henry) was a comic strip character created in 1932 by Carl Thomas Anderson.  The comic ran in syndication for 84

    Second, Psalm 127:4 shows us that just as arrows don’t fire themselves from the bow, so also children cannot be left to raise themselves. Solomon understood this. He said, “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame” (Prov. 29:15). Children make foolish decisions (Prov. 22:15), and they need training and encouragement from parents so that they can grow up, be parents themselves, and continue this process for another generation (Prov. 22:6).

Undoubtedly, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has to be thinking, at least on some level, about the oft-repeated phrase “what goes around comes around.”  Or, perhaps he remembers the more abrupt version of this concept - “Kharma is a ….”

Legislators must limit scope of emergency executive power

One of the big 3 broadcast companies launched when I was 8 years old.  That is insane to me.  I was alive at the birth of a national network.  Fox Broadcasting Company was founded 33 years ago on October 9, 1986 by Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller.  The parent company is the Fox Corporation.  The