There is absolutely nothing wrong with sprucing up for company.
Everyone should want to sweep away cobwebs, to mow the lawn, to wash the car just so our visitors will know we made an extra effort to be hospitable and welcoming.
I get it.
But there is something naggingly unsettling about spending more money than we have to [...]
Just as the East End is experiencing revitalization, rebirth and renewal, a part of its soul and history is scheduled to be sold at absolute auction later this month.
The Phillis Wheatley Center, a community and social gathering place for decades, will be sold at 11 a.m. Aug. 28. The Brenda D. Cowan Coalition for Kentucky [...]
A story in Monday’s Lexington Herald-Leader suggested there are safety issues dangling unnoticed for students in the newly approved move planned for the Bluegrass Community and Technical College in a few years.
BCTC will unite its three campuses into one with the move to a site now occupied by Eastern State Hospital at the corner of [...]
Shonda Marie Brown plans to marry the love of her life in September.
Brown lives and works in Atlanta, but she’s from Lexington and she’ll be coming back here for the wedding.
It will be a happy ending to the bumpy road of dating that she has traveled in her 26 years, and she has written [...]
Shonda Marie Brown plans to marry the love of her life in September.
Brown lives and works in Atlanta, but she’s from Lexington and she’ll be coming back here for the wedding.
It will be a happy ending to the bumpy road of dating that she has traveled in her 26 years, and she has written [...]
A reader recently challenged a reporter here, determined to get him to change the geographical designation he had placed on a recent murder.
The victim was found on Alexandria Drive, near Leestown Road, an extension of Main Street.
The reader argued the location of the victim should not have been described as “north” Lexington. It should, instead, [...]
I am a native Kentuckian, and I have worked at the Lexington Herald-Leader for nearly a quarter of a century. I've been a columnist for almost 20 of those years, dispensing my opinions about anything and everything. Born in Owensboro, Ky., I'm old enough to have lived through racial segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, protests against the Vietnam War, and the break-up of the Beatles. That means I am "old school," and my thoughts emanate from that perspective.