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About this time every year my anxiety level rises because the Kentucky General assembly is in session. This has been going on with me ever since they started meeting annually. The reason? They keep chipping away with the information you should be entitled to, that is, public...

McDonald’s sells cheeseburgers, and newspapers sell news.  Recently, the News Journal has been experiencing a bit of an issue with social media users screenshotting content that has been posted behind our paywall and then sharing those photos in the comment section.  Let me...

If you form a team and you have the referee on your team, most likely you will win the game. It is almost laughable that the case of Corbin versus London on annexation of the area at Exit 29 on Interstate 75 was held in Laurel Circuit Court. I’m not saying, I repeat not saying...

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...

Joe Beasman Hall had a way of making ordinary people feel like they were his best friend. But it wasn’t always like that. The former Kentucky Wildcat basketball coach who followed Adolph Rupp died January 14. Even though he stepped away from the program 37 years ago at the age of...

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...

I’m going to start out this week up in the cheap seats by giving a shout out to Corbin Basketball Coach Tony Pietrowski who set the school record for most coaching wins in the program’s history as the Redhounds defeated Whitley County Friday night. Pietrowski notched win 442 at...

And they are off! The official race to finish the Cumberland Run, a new horse track, broke ground in Corbin Monday. By this fall harness racing will be taking place and by January of next year there will be a new restaurant located at the facility. Cumberland Run joins Cumberland...

Jay Bauer was the locker room attendant of the Kentucky Colonels professional basketball team in Louisville. At least that was his title in 1975, and at the age of 23 he had been involved with the Colonels for all nine of their American Basketball Association seasons. He started...