Opinion
The best grad speech you will never hear
“Teddy Roosevelt is my favorite president,” I said to the soon-to-be college graduate sitting across from me. “I visited his house once.”
Teddy Roosevelt’s home on Long Island, NY, is stuffed with books as well as a frightening grizzly bear looming in frozen growl over small elementary student visitors.
The museum was both terrifying and fascinating to a fourth grader with career aspirations of becoming a pioneer and creating her own head cheese.
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Former judge Cornish weighs in on pool
Being wrong has never felt so good
Column as I see ’em …
I’ve never been happier to be wrong in my life.
I screwed up royally several weeks go when I wrote an article about potential health department tax increases.
I wasn’t alone in thinking health department taxes are governed under the convoluted “compensating rate” system; even the county attorney wasn’t aware of an old statute that actually covers health taxes.
She is now, and I’m absolutely thrilled.
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All the news that’s fit to share on Facebook
Today I’m going to use print to talk about social media.
Counterproductive?
Perhaps, especially since you cannot hover your computer cursor on the phrase “click here,” taking you straight to online coverage of last Friday’s industrial park fire in Lawrenceburg.
Don’t worry. The technology is coming. I can feel it.
You probably snapped a photo — taken from your porch, from your driver’s seat or from your backyard — of the smoke plume over Lawrenceburg as it twisted lazily into the air.
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The 2 million card man
When the Commons 4 Kids charity delivers its second million baseball cards this year, Jerry Milburn knows exactly which baseball card he’ll choose to mark the occasion.
A 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey, Jr., rookie card.
The baseball card that sparked decades of collecting.
The good-luck charm Milburn’s mother brought to Bingo nights.
The card that inspired the beginnings of Milburn’s trading card charity, Commons 4 Kids.
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Splash park location just downright ridiculous
Column as I see ’em …
Just when I start to think the city council is ready to bury the hatchet with county government, it steps up and reaffirms just how wide the chasm between the two really is.
The city’s decision to move forward with a splash park is the latest indicator of how unwilling it is to join forces with county government for the benefit of this community.
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Return to Haiti, the 12th edition
Stepping off the plane in Haiti, David Montgomery first smelled the trash.
“I’d been through some poor countries before, but when I hit Haiti, just the smell, the trash was everywhere, just like a tour of the landfill out here,” Montgomery said.
The Anderson County magistrate’s memories of all he’s done, seen and heard on the Caribbean island run together.
After 12 trips to Haiti in 14 years, it can be difficult to keep his timeline straight.
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I’ve found the enemy, it’s us
Bending paperclips calms me.
Fragile metal contorted into shepherd’s hooks or misshapen cranes lay inert beneath computer paper shrouds.
Their broken limbs of snapped, twisted metal litter my desk.
They are the leftovers of trying to wield control in an uncontrollable world.
Destroying something that can’t ever be made whole again relieves stress.
It always has.
When I was a child, usually sitting in the left outfield wearing my baseball mitt as a hat, my fingers happily found grass to destroy.
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Lawsuit blessing in disguise for library
The Anderson Public library’s board of trustees will apparently wait until a court orders it to comply with the statute that governs how it’s supposed to set tax rates before doing so on its own.
And that’s a shame because by doing so the board is missing out on a great chance to reinvent its image and survive what will otherwise be a devastating financial blow.
The order to lower its tax rate has already come for a library in northern Kentucky and, trust me on this, a similar order will eventually be issued here.
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He’s for equality, but against gay marriage
Dustin Burley is gay.
Dustin Burley is also against gay marriage.
So don’t expect him to change his Facebook profile photo to a red equal sign
Originally designed by the Human Rights Campaign, the equal sign has become a virtual and viral banner of one’s social media support for marriage equality.
Burley says he’s definitely for equal rights, just not gay marriage.
And if you ask him why, Burley won’t hesitate.
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More criticism received from 100 Wake Up Drive
Large tax increase a bad idea for board of health
Column as I see ’em …
It’s fairly surprising that the health department director is pushing for a 33 percent revenue increase in the agency’s next budget. (See A1 for details).
I get why he’s doing it; the department took a major revenue blow this year thanks to a Medicaid insurer that is refusing to pay its bills, and he’s right that those who work there should not have to endure another year of furlough days.
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