Opinion

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

By: Dr. Don Kuehle We all know the old old story of the Virgin Mary. How an Angel announced to her that she would become pregnant by the God’s Holy

By: Frank Burkett Unemployment. The numbers just don’t add up in my mathematical mind. We now have 18.3 million collecting weekly unemployment payments. The official count by the government of