Opinion

People’s Garden
Who is responsible for the fenced-in garden area at the picnic area at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park?
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According to Park Superintendent William Justice, the garden in the picnic area of the park is a “People’s Garden.”

The project was started by Steve Meredith who is with the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He has been working with the state FFA to maintain the garden.
Justice offered the following:

At the end of the school year, Hodgenville Elementary School parents received a paper to vote  whether we wanted to buy our children school supplies or give the teacher $20 per child and have the teacher purchase the supplies. What happened to that idea?

I received my children’s list in the mail and one of my kids needs 48 pencils. I find it hard to believe that any child can use 48 pencils in a school year. Did the $20 idea get voted down, or was it just not possible?

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HES Principal Sue Osborne responded:

 Did you notice the downpour that struck LaRue County just after 4 p.m. Monday?

We received a visit in the office last week from long-time herpetologist Bob Todd.

Mr. Todd, who lives in Sonora, saw the article about a copperhead in last week’s LaRue County Herald News and wanted to offer his opinion on it.

Mr. Todd knows snakes. He’s spent a lifetime studying them.

He thinks the snake pictured was not a venomous copperhead but a harmless Prairie Kingsnake.

To the unpracticed eye, the snakes closely resemble each other. Their coloration is similar.

Mother Jones, a “fearless” left-wing magazine, last week broke a story about the covert recording of a meeting of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell’s campaign staff.
Yawn. What a scoop.
Was anyone shocked by any part of this story?
And if you were ... why?
I wasn’t surprised that someone secretly taped Sen. McConnell’s campaign strategy meeting. I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
I wasn’t surprised that Sen. McConnell and his staff were heard trash talking on the 12-minute tape.

 Just when I think I'm beyond doing something particularly horrendous and downright wrong, I do it.

I stole a packet of Sweet 'N Low the other day.

I put it back, because I felt guilty. Actually, I put it back because my daughter caught me, and then I felt guilty. But putting it back doesn't change the fact that I'm a Sweet 'N Low thief.

 If I had planned to speak for 13 hours when I took the Senate floor, I would’ve worn more comfortable shoes. I started my filibuster with the words, “I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination for the CIA. I will speak until I can no longer speak” — and I meant it.

 Every year members of the Kentucky General Assembly descend on Frankfort to carry out the duties that our citizens expect to do. That expectation includes making sure that the legislative process is open and transparent to all Kentuckians.

But time and time again, and to the frustration of many of us in the Kentucky House of Representatives, the legislative process seems in some cases to be stuck in the back rooms of the Capitol. Never has that been clearer than our efforts to address one of the major issues of the 2013 Session: reforming our public pension system.