About 130 campers with epilepsy and Down syndrome are enjoying a week of feeling relatively normal in Scottsville, and campers with muscular dystrophy will have the same opportunity next week.
Some of the money raised during last year’s Children’s Charity Celebrity Golf Classic will see to that.
On Monday, the Children’s Charity Fund of the Bluegrass, the [...]
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took Barack Obama to task for his deft and deadly skills in ridding himself of a persistent and pesky housefly that refused to move on to less dangerous territory.
During an interview last week, Obama killed the pest with a swift bare-handed swat that has now been replayed a [...]
Every year about this time, after high school graduations and before college classes begin, I get a phone call from a frightened and anxious parent who has suddenly noticed his or her child hasn’t done a thing to ease the transition to higher education.
The parents had never attended college themselves and didn’t have a clue [...]
Oprah did it. Surely I can, too.
That was my thought when I finally joined the world of Twitter this week.
It wasn’t an unthinking proposition on my part to follow in her footsteps. Oprah does a lot of things I don’t, not the least of which is pay several thousand dollars for a purse.
But the young [...]
Moveable Feast, the non-profit organization that has been preparing, packing and delivering hot meals to hospice and HIV/AIDS patients for more than a decade, will soon box itself up for a move to a new permanent home.
For the first time, the organization will have a place of its own, directly across Fifth Street from Shiloh [...]
Some of the most moving and poignant stories of the civil rights movement are told by the people who lived them. They can look back on those moments and easily recall the smells, the emotions and the environment from which the stories evolved. And often, with only a little encouragement, those stories easily spring forth.
The [...]
Because our children don’t know the struggles and triumphs of the slaves, freed blacks and colored soldiers during the Civil War era, two celebrations this month are making a special effort to school them.
The Juneteenth Celebration in Lexington and Cincinnati’s 2009 Juneteenth Celebration will feature programs to enlighten young people about the tragic time in [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor has a lot in common with Lexington attorney Josh Santana.
Both are of Puerto Rican descent, both lived in the Bronx, and both are attorneys.
“I grew up in an area not that far from where the Supreme Court nominee, Sotomayor, grew up,” Santana said. “Those were interesting times. I’m [...]
When Fayette County Public Schools received the highest scores ever given to one of the state’s school systems on a Kentucky Scholastic Audit early last week, few people seemed to notice and even fewer reacted.
Crickets, as one reality TV show cast member would say.
The silence was an indicator that the numerous squeaky wheels that had [...]
Russell Smith wondered why his wife had occasionally peppered him with questions about his service as a Marine in Vietnam. He had been awarded two Purple Hearts for wounds he received there on two occasions in 1969. It was old news, but she seemed interested, so he answered as best he could.
Smith’s wife, Barbara, was [...]
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.