About 8,000 students who are headed back to Fayette County schools on Aug. 12 need your help.
That’s the number of children in need that LexLinc has identified, an increase of 2,000 children since last year’s Ready! Set! Go! back-to-school rallies held in neighborhoods throughout Fayette County.
This year, though, LexLinc is not asking that you go [...]
A group of elementary school teachers from South Korea are studying English at Kentucky State University weekdays, but in the evenings, they’d like to get to know us.
What is the good of learning the American language without learning more about Americans?
“I wish some American families will invite them to lunch or to go to a [...]
Of all the specialty license plates we can ponder while waiting for a light to change, including Ducks Unlimited, Quail Unlimited and even Street Rod, there isn’t a Kentucky plate supporting adoption.
It’s not because someone hasn’t thought of it, come up with a design or gotten the ball rolling. It’s because we who own cars [...]
While recovering from an illness several years ago, Reinette F. Jones found pieces of scrap paper in her garage containing names of historic African-Americans in Kentucky. She had been keeping them in hopes someone would start a database.
No one did.
So, armed with those pieces of paper, Jones and fellow librarian Robert A. Aken II decided [...]
With rising unemployment numbers and mortgage foreclosures coupled with a recession that hasn’t yet hit bottom, this may be the perfect time to let a little sunshine burn through the clouds.
Excerpts from a one-woman play in Frankfort on Friday and the stage adaptation of a young reader’s book could fit that bill quite nicely.
Neither can [...]
When Donna Hubbard last spent time in Lexington, she didn’t get to see many horse farms or rolling hills, nor did she sip any Kentucky bourbon or a mint julep.
She was confined behind the barbed- and razor-wire fences of the Lexington Federal Correctional Institute, now the Federal Medical Center, on Leestown Road, serving two 12-year [...]
American workers are quickly finding themselves in one of two basic categories:
■ The recently laid-off who are struggling to find strong footing in the workplace again.
■ Those who fear they will find themselves in the first category one day soon.
In either scenario, comfort and security are not banners we wave. The shock of being laid [...]
Jeri Moss, 23 of Tampa, Florida, did what so many mothers have done before in her attempt to stretch a nearly bare cupboard to meet her child’s needs: She added water to her son’s formula.
The problem is Moss did it for far too long and nearly killed her 5-month-old son La’Damian. The baby was diagnosed [...]
Maybelle Baker of Philadelphia thinks we all need a little bed bug education.
Baker’s 81-year-old mother lives in one of the 317 apartments in the Ballard-Griffith Towers that are undergoing treatment to eradicate the little blood-sucking critters. Because of that infestation, Baker said, some of the residents have been shunned by health providers and senior activity [...]
All the news over the weekend was how — egad! — President-elect Barack Obama might have to give up his BlackBerry because of security and public-records laws.
Obama is a very techno-savvy politician, which was evident in how well his presidential campaign worked the Internet to its advantage.
Plus, he used YouTube this past weekend for the [...]
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.