No column Sunday
Other duties called today.
May 09, 2008
April 21, 2008
Outta here
I'm taking some vacation, sandwiched around attending the East Kentucky Leadership Conference April 24-25. I may post some from the conference. But I won't be back in the office until April 30. See you then.
April 16, 2008
One-day delay
Due to the General Assembly stretching its work into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, my mid-week column - normally published on Wednesdays - will be pushed back to Thursday this week.
March 31, 2008
Among the best of the blogs
I'm honored. Enough said.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/03/new_and_improved_best_of_the_s.html#more
March 12, 2008
A day late
My midweek column that normally appears on Wednesday will be published Thursday this week. All of the budget stuff Tuesday kept me from getting a column finished in time for Wednesday publication.
January 30, 2008
A day late
My midweek column, which normally would be in Wednesday's paper, will be published Thursday since the H-L's Wednesday oped page was devoted to Gov. Steve Beshear's budget address.
December 19, 2007
Happy Ho-Ho!
I'm outta here until Jan. 2, and it would have to be something very important to rouse me from my long winter's nap.
December 07, 2007
In memory of Todd Duvall
At Wednesday evening's visitation for Todd Duvall, Ellen Hellard, a longtime friend of his, asked other friends for brief descriptions of him that she could use while speaking at his funeral Thursday. The first word that came to my mind was "curmudgeon." (I think of The State Journal's late editorial page editor as the original Kentucky curmudgeon. I just borrowed the title when I started this blog.) After thinking a few moments, I also told Ellen that I thought of Todd as a passionate crusader.
It was only later that another description came to mind. Todd was a man of spirits. We had that in common, too. We both liked our toddies, particularly when we combined them with the company of friends and pleasant conversation.
So, to all of Todd's friends who read this post, please raise a glass to his memory.
CHEERS!
November 06, 2007
Midweek column
My midweek column, which normally appears on Wednesday (when I write one), will be delayed until Thursday this week to give me a chance to digest the election results.
If you haven't done so already, please go vote for the candidate of your choice.
November 05, 2007
Commandments, Pence and good advice
1. I believe it's safe to conclude that the copy of the Ten Commandments now on display with other historical documents in the state Capitol's Rotunda was not put there with religion in mind. It was purely an act of political desperation on the part of an incumbent governor who trails badly in the polls one day before the election. Of course, if Gov. Ernie Fletcher had spent more time following the Ten Commandments during his four-year term, his prospects for re-election might not look so bleak now.
2. Ran into Lt. Gov. Steve Pence outside the Capitol this afternoon. He told me he and his wife, Ruth Ann Cox, will be joining the Louisville offices of the Dinsmore & Shohl law firm. She will start Dec. 1, and he will join her there Dec. 11. That's the date of the gubernatorial inauguration.
3. Thanks to the reader who sent me an e-mail saying his Wellness Center calendar says this for tomorrow:
"People who stay home (don't vote) on election day because they don't want to have anything to do with crooked politics have a lot more to do with crooked politics than they think."
There's considerable wisdom in that thought.
