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Today's Opinions

  • Don't forget the blessings that surround us

    Complete this sentence: “If I was _______, then I’d truly be blessed and happy.”

    Time’s up and pencils down.

    Now, forget your answer for a moment and lend me your ears…or, in this case…eyes.

    No matter what the answer is, we’re always trying to find true happiness; that light at the end of the tunnel where life and all its oddities make perfect sense. It can span a number of topics: health and well being, building of faith, that perfect soul mate, a position as a C.E.O. with a multi-million dollar income.

  • Pulling the Plug on Healthcare

    The Cash for Clunkers program has worked so well it is broke.  The four-month program went broke in four days by giving away our tax dollars to help the auto industry it now owns.  

    So, the government that can’t run a Cash for Clunkers wants to run a government healthcare program?

    Obamacare sounds like it will take some patients off the road with, as the president calls them, those tough “life-ending” decisions that could save $500 billion in Medicare costs.

  • Obama's Health care plan a disaster for U.S

    Healthcare has been all the talk in our nation’s capitol the last few weeks.

  • Finding time to find myself

    The summer before college sounds like it could get pretty wild.

    It’s really the last chance you have to wreak havoc in your hometown and not take on full “adult-like” responsibility for those actions, especially if you’re under 18. Even though by this time you have graduated and have allegedly earned more respect; most people are left to think that some people just never grow up.

  • Treasure simplicity; it fades away as quickly as a firefly

    One evening while taking my puppies outside to do their, as I, and other dog owners, only know how to call it, “evening ritual,” I noticed something I hadn’t seen in a long time: A lightning bug, a.k.a. firefly, was fluttering around the backyard. Suddenly, there was another, then another, then, before I knew it, there were five altogether.

    Why did this impress me so much?

  • Back to school
  • Time for some changes- one way or another

    Lately, some officials in Campbell County have displayed behavior ranging from impractical to downright preposterous. Their conduct has risen to such a level that I wonder why they ran for office to begin with.

    An example of the unfeasible behavior was at a recent LaFollette City Council meeting. A council member made the suggestion to have an employee, who was off work due to a medical problem, conduct an investigation into a personnel matter. Essentially, the council member wanted to have someone, too ill to work, look into a stressful, highly contested, hot button issue.