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As a journalist, I talk to people a lot. It’s just part of what I do. Even when I am not working, I still tend to talk to people quite a bit when I am out and about so let me tell you about a couple of interesting conversations that I had recently, including an interesting...

I was saddened to hear about the recent passing of former Whitley County Magistrate Wayne Wilson. Wayne wasn’t really a politician as much as he was just a regular guy, who happened to get elected to office. In addition to having served as magistrate, Wayne also worked as the...

Let’s say that you have an ethically-challenged sheriff, who is a duly elected pubic official, who repeatedly refuses to pay his property taxes. I daresay this is information that most voters and taxpayers would like to know before they go to the polls on Election Day to decide...

Competition can be a good thing. Take the Corbin Police Department vs. Corbin Fire Department chili cook-off that was held Thursday evening. Granted not what you were expecting me to say about competition, but it was a pretty good one from what I understand with the Corbin Police...

Monday morning, I found myself explaining the concept of the “pie supper” to a younger co-worker. For those that don’t know, “pie suppers,” or as I like to refer them “the legal fleecing of the candidates,” are a Whitley County tradition. Various non-profit entities, including:...

From a journalistic perspective one of the few good things I find about social media is that you can get an actual idea about how many people are reading a story or how interested folks are in it. Sometimes our readers really surprise me about just how interested they get in a...

With the election coming up in May, a few times over the last couple of months, I gave serious thought to writing a column with the headline, “I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my candidacy for…”, and then conclude the column with “my candidacy for nothing. I haven’t...

Periodically, I get releases from folks promoting a new service, or a new product or a new book. Most of them I just look at for about 10 seconds then move onto the next release or e-mail. I got one a few days ago about a book that caught my attention, entitled, “Bills! Bills!...

If you spend any amount of time at all working in journalism, law enforcement, emergency services, social work on in any number of other fields, then there is a pretty good chance you have dealt with a tragedy in some form or another. One of the most tragic ones I have covered...

When midnight rolled around on Dec. 31, 2020, nearly everyone had pretty much the same thought, which was along the lines of “surely 2021 has to be better than 2020.” It wasn’t the first time that nearly everyone has been wrong. I seriously doubt that it will be the last time...