1976: Why Not the Best?

They didn't know it yet in Burbank, ...

... but Jimmy Carter and President Ford are going to win today 1976's New Hampshire presidential primary.

I just love art like that (from Collier's 1977 Year Book Covering the Year 1976) and this (from this 1976 week's TV Guide).

Comments flow.

Oh, Kentucky

JUST 45 MINS left of the Full "Buck" Moon ...at least for today.
It will rise again at 9pm tonight. pic.twitter.com/82cMDBs7Yf

— Brian Goode WAVE-TV (@BGoodeWAVE3) July 27, 2018

  

It's back-to-school-shopping time, and here's where Paducah's parents can find bulletproof backpacks and gun-handling classes for their 7-year-olds.

One old school in Nelson County is set to reopen as a rehab facility next month, and a second might be on its way.

A Morgantown nonprofit mulls a facility for pregnant addicts.

Michael (A.) Cohen, New Hampshire veep-hopeful Matt Bevin and Kentucky healthcare in the Boston Globe. 

On the question of medical cannabis and Kentucky.

It was norovirus, and now the Fayette Mall food court is back up and running.

The restaurant-tax-driven renewal of Madisonville moves forward.

Bill Mardis in Somerset's Commonwealth Journal renews his 50-year tradition of dishing the low-down dirt on the snakes of Pulaski County.

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Murray.

A dozen aluminum welders are ready to go once SilverLiner opens in Pikeville this fall.

Matt Bevin, a prospective vice-presidential candidate from New Hampshire, has granted vision and dental benefits to about 500,000 Medicaid enrollees in Kentucky (after yanking them away a few weeks before).

A giant gift from a former Churchill Downs and Humana executive will help pay for students whose parents and grandparents never attended college to go to U of L.

Black lung appears to be making a big comeback in eastern Kentucky.

Western Kentucky gets a seat at the Farm Bill table in the U.S. House.

The new president of the College of Regional Ministers for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada is from Kentucky.

Groundbreaking for the new Patti's is scheduled for next month in Grand Rivers.

Ta ta, Papa, from the NKU food court.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 17 (and 1998-2017; whoop-whoop, RayRay, in 2002!); Bowling Green, Dec. 1; Richmond, Dec. 7, and Hopkinsville, Dec. 8.

Oh, Kentucky

Matt Bevin, a future vice-presidential hopeful from New Hampshire, has cut dental and vision coverage for about half a million of the poorest Kentuckians.

"A Bardstown resident who has been living in the United States for nearly 20 years has been seized by immigration authorities and is being held at a lockup in Boone County pending his deportation to Mexico."

"'I get that hunting is not for everyone,' she said in the statement, but 'if it was any other belief that was different, threats and insults would be deemed hideous, however for some reason it is ok to act this way because it’s hunting.'"

Good jobs news from Bowling Green and Bowling Green.

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Cave City can hardly wait for Karst Beach and Boo Boo Playground.

Christmas parades: Bowling Green, Dec. 1, and Hopkinsville, Dec. 8.

Kentucky Opera Night at Louisville City FC is scheduled for June 30.

Corbin's third-annual Burger Week begins Monday. 

Are food trucks and restauranteurs getting too close for comfort in Owensboro?

Dalton Godbey for WBKO 13 looks at Prints of Peace, a jobs-training program for teen-agers, launched by Broadway United Methodist Church and the Bowling Green Housing Authority.

The senior center in Liberty is offering painting classes on Thursday afternoons, and its instructor hails its cognitive and social-skills benefits, per Zach Johnson in The Casey County News.

Hiking trails have come to Hazard, and Buckhorn,  Leatherwood, Viper and other Perry County communities are up next, reports Destiny Caldwell in The Hazard Herald.

Checking in on the vice-presidential campaign of Matt Bevin of Shelburne, New Hampshire, ...

Alliance Coal needed new warehouse space, so a spec building constructed by Madisonville-Hopkins County Economic Development in 2003 has a new owner.

Good jobs news from Bardstown, Florence and Franklin.

Rest in peace, Ronny Smith, publisher of Beauty of 3/Pinnacle VIEW Magazine, park ranger at Cumberland Gap National Park and volunteer photographer at Middlesboro ARH.

Oh, Kentucky

Protest of a proposed McDonald's at 473 Main St. in downtown Lex., April 4, 1983. Details http://t.co/oWWk4jyWTx pic.twitter.com/vgW5HMCOfo

— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) June 10, 2015

Good jobs news from Princeton.

"Carrollton police had a very different plan for Adam Horine. They wanted him out of town and out of the state. They wanted to rid themselves of this tormented petty criminal. They wanted to make him someone else’s problem."

The vice president of tourism expansion and marketing for the Bardstown-Nelson County Tourism Commission says the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, Elizabethtown Sports Park and Meade County fly-fishing craze are drawing visitors to the state's eight-county "Lincoln Trail region."

Mitch McConnell, who set ensuring President Obama was not re-elected in 2012 as his primary goal as leader of the Senate of the United States of America and then failed to achieve that goal, now says that "Obamacare" is hurting Kentucky.

The Republican nominee for governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin of Shelburne, N.H., agrees.

The Kentucky/Indiana all-star basketball series might be in crisis.

Happy one-year birthday to Dolly Parton's Hazard library!

Says YouTube user "capnvid47:" "When I was around eight living with my family in Hyden, Kentucky, we set up a UHF antenna (a rare occurrence in that mountainous area) to get the KET (Kentucky Educational Television) transmitter in nearby Hazard, which with the rest of the statewide network signed on in 1968."

It looks fantastic, capnvid47. Congratulations!