A Louisville entrepreneur has left the Hooters game, and that could lead to one of the restaurants opening in Elizabethtown.
In the wake of bad jobs news in and around Middlesboro, Cooperative Christian Ministry's food-assistance program is struggling to keep pace.
A Christine soldier's story.
A Symsonia volunteer firefighter on Wednesday was called to fight a blaze at his own home.
Good jobs news from Gray and Louisville.
Glasgow rising.
A year later, these pictures of the Eggners Ferry Bridge still shake me up.
Watch what you flush in Morehead, bub.
The man who championed Big Bird in the Commonwealth is hailed.
So, too, is the man (from Mayfield) who pioneered Murray State hoops in the Purchase: "While Rupp and Diddle’s teams dazzled the media, Cutchin was not as flashy, coaching hard-working, defensive-minded teams. Cutchin’s stout personality served as the base on which the program was built. It is a culture which still permeates the program today." (The writer makes a good point. As a member of the media, I probably would've been naively dazzled by the 21-13 record that Coach Diddle's teams amassed against Coach Cutchin's teams, 1925-41, and failed to respect how hard-working and defensive-minded the Racers were.)
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Monday, June 4, 2012
'The New Kentucky' (as of 1961)
The last chapter, "The New Kentucky," from Kentucky Yesterday and Today, written by Ruby Dell Baugher and Sarah Hendricks Claypool in 1961 and published by Kincaid Publishing House three years later:
There are silver-like strips that go east and west, north and south. They are highways that run right on through hills and over rivers. On those highways there are thousands of automobiles, trucks, moving vans, and buses. They are even now carrying more freight than trains. There has been a Louisville and Nashville train carrying passengers between Louisville and Henderson for more than a hundred years. It stopped November 15, 1958 because too few people had been riding it. Automobiles and planes are putting Kentucky passenger trains out of business. Nothing shows off our New Kentucky more than our 1961 civilization on wheels moved by gasoline. ...
Many would say that is is the schools that speak for a New Kentucky. There is the University of Kentucky Northwest Center at Henderson. It is so new that the 1960-1961 term was its very first, thus giving all in Western Kentucky who desire an education of university quality, an opportunity. Its first Director, they do not call him President, is Dr. Louis Alderman. In this our New Kentucky there are high schools and colleges available for all who will take advantage of their glorious privileges. And there is a public school for every boy and girl; the Minimum Foundation Law takes care of that. It provides each school district in the state a minimum program of education, regardless of the wealth of the district. State support for education provides sufficient funds to operate a minimum program defined by law. Those schools, all the way from the tiniest one-room school up to the most splendid college, are needed if Kentucky lives up to the highest expectations of Kentuckians in the past, the present, and the future.
Nothing helps more to make this a New Kentucky than electricity everywhere. Dix Dam, Louisville Dam, Wolf Creek Dam, and Kentucky Dam--these are the main sites for generation of electricity by water power. It is a New Kentucky with electricity in the milking barn as well as in the Governor's mansion. It is wherever practical necessity demands as well as luxury.
Western Kentucky has its smoke stacks and tipples proclaiming coal mines as viewed from the air. There is an Atomic Energy Plant at Paducah as recent as the Korean fighting. And there is Kentucky Lake drawing all people who have time to play.
There is nothing that announces New Kentucky more than Kentucky Lake. Last year it led all Tennessee Valley Authority impoundments with millions of visits from pleasure seekers. It is a recreational project that draws dollars from everywhere. Its thousands of houseboats, cruisers, runabouts, and rowboats are valued at more than eighteen millions of dollars. The value of its summer cottages run into thousands of dollars. Its tourist courts, cottages, and cabins rent for millions of dollars every year. At the 1960 Kentucky Lake Fishing Derby, Governor Combs said that tourists spent $160,000,000 in Kentucky in the summer of 1960. He said that the tourist industry was second only to agriculture in cash income in the State's industries.
There is a New Kentucky that does not shout. It speaks very firmly, sometimes in only whispers. But the whispers penetrate. This New Kentucky speaks through the devoutness of the churches, the desire for better teaching, sounder learning, cleaner politics, and in the problem of Integration.
This is New Kentucky, all forty thousand three hundred and ninety-five square miles of it for its population (1960) of more than three million people.
There are silver-like strips that go east and west, north and south. They are highways that run right on through hills and over rivers. On those highways there are thousands of automobiles, trucks, moving vans, and buses. They are even now carrying more freight than trains. There has been a Louisville and Nashville train carrying passengers between Louisville and Henderson for more than a hundred years. It stopped November 15, 1958 because too few people had been riding it. Automobiles and planes are putting Kentucky passenger trains out of business. Nothing shows off our New Kentucky more than our 1961 civilization on wheels moved by gasoline. ...
Many would say that is is the schools that speak for a New Kentucky. There is the University of Kentucky Northwest Center at Henderson. It is so new that the 1960-1961 term was its very first, thus giving all in Western Kentucky who desire an education of university quality, an opportunity. Its first Director, they do not call him President, is Dr. Louis Alderman. In this our New Kentucky there are high schools and colleges available for all who will take advantage of their glorious privileges. And there is a public school for every boy and girl; the Minimum Foundation Law takes care of that. It provides each school district in the state a minimum program of education, regardless of the wealth of the district. State support for education provides sufficient funds to operate a minimum program defined by law. Those schools, all the way from the tiniest one-room school up to the most splendid college, are needed if Kentucky lives up to the highest expectations of Kentuckians in the past, the present, and the future.
Nothing helps more to make this a New Kentucky than electricity everywhere. Dix Dam, Louisville Dam, Wolf Creek Dam, and Kentucky Dam--these are the main sites for generation of electricity by water power. It is a New Kentucky with electricity in the milking barn as well as in the Governor's mansion. It is wherever practical necessity demands as well as luxury.
Western Kentucky has its smoke stacks and tipples proclaiming coal mines as viewed from the air. There is an Atomic Energy Plant at Paducah as recent as the Korean fighting. And there is Kentucky Lake drawing all people who have time to play.
There is nothing that announces New Kentucky more than Kentucky Lake. Last year it led all Tennessee Valley Authority impoundments with millions of visits from pleasure seekers. It is a recreational project that draws dollars from everywhere. Its thousands of houseboats, cruisers, runabouts, and rowboats are valued at more than eighteen millions of dollars. The value of its summer cottages run into thousands of dollars. Its tourist courts, cottages, and cabins rent for millions of dollars every year. At the 1960 Kentucky Lake Fishing Derby, Governor Combs said that tourists spent $160,000,000 in Kentucky in the summer of 1960. He said that the tourist industry was second only to agriculture in cash income in the State's industries.
There is a New Kentucky that does not shout. It speaks very firmly, sometimes in only whispers. But the whispers penetrate. This New Kentucky speaks through the devoutness of the churches, the desire for better teaching, sounder learning, cleaner politics, and in the problem of Integration.
This is New Kentucky, all forty thousand three hundred and ninety-five square miles of it for its population (1960) of more than three million people.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Oh, Kentucky
Obama-2012: 479-479 in Calloway County.
Romney-2012: Uncommitted didn't fare nearly as well in the Republican primary, but it did finish second to the nominee-to-be in both Lawrence and Whitley counties.
GOP-2012: Tea time, still, in Kentucky.
For some reason, Bowling Green's Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky, which came in No. 1 nationally in Newsweek's ranking, was not included in the U.S. News & World Report rankings--leaving Louisville duPont Manual as the state's top-rated high school in that magazine.
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