By Sam Terry March 30, 2016 For weeks, news from the Kentucky General Assembly and Kentucky’s public universities has focused on a battle for bucks being waged between Gov. Matt Bevin and the Kentucky House of Representatives.  It’s hard to ignore the continually rising costs of obtaining a college education.  It’s also hard to ignore…

By Sam Terry Managing Editor Jobe Publishing, Inc. April 14, 2016 Every few years there is a new phenomenon that bedazzles some of the public but almost always grabs the attention of politicians.  At the moment, it is workforce development.  It’s mentioned everywhere from local government and industrial recruitment meetings, legislative committee hearings, state press…

By Sam Terry Managing Editor Jobe Publishing, Inc. Graduation 2016 This week you join thousands of other Kentucky students in donning graduation robes and mortarboards to be part of the annual rite of passage known as high school graduation.  Just as in years past, there will be tears of joy and sighs of relief from…

By Sam Terry Managing Editor Jobe Publishing, Inc. Kentuckians love to sing about the sun shining brightly in our old Kentucky home, and this Sunday marks the 40thanniversary of a different way in which sunlight benefits all Kentuckians.  The Kentucky Open Records Act may sound like a dull subject, but to the media and to…

By Sam Terry Managing Editor Jobe Publishing, Inc. June 30, 2016 While Governor Matt Bevin is in the process of putting various tax-payer funded entities under the magnifying glass, he needs to turn his focus to South-Central Kentucky, particularly the Barren River Area Development District.  For quite some time the pages of our newspapers and…