Opinion

By: Travis Naughton As much as we were all looking forward to celebrating Betty White’s 100th birthday on January 17, (and as sad as we all were to see her

By: Frank Burkett How and why I started writing about my Conservative views, for the public to read. I am sure there are grammar mistakes, and that some readers agree

Ask Rusty Should I Quit Work to Preserve My Social Security Benefit? Dear Rusty: I recently took a big pay cut in my job. Several older friends have advised that

By: Travis Naughton As you know, I have written about the Southern Boone County School District’s Board of Education and its handling of Covid-19 several times in the last few

By: Joe Bialek Life begins at the point of conception. No one can deny that after a human being is conceived it will develop into the very same being as

Somehow, some way, may this be a Christmas worth remembering Dr. Glenn Mollette We had difficulties when we were growing up in Martin county, Kentucky but overall, we thought we

By: Travis Naughton I’ve always known that one day my son Alex, his girlfriend Sarah, and their beautiful baby girl Freya would move out of our house and into a

By: Frank Burkett Definition of liberal: willing to respect or accept others behavior or views different then one’s own, or open new ideas. That is the definition, of what the

By: Lance Izumi Student enrollment in public schools has nosedived as parent disgust with school COVID-19 policies, student learning losses, and controversial education policies has gone through the roof. In

By: Travis Naughton When I began writing for the Boone County Journal back in 2011, I planned to call my column “The Stay-At-Home Rollercoaster”. My wife and I had two