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After you shop small, try subscribing local
EDITORIAL The Advocate-Messenger Everyone is familiar with Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday. But…
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Letter: Grace Café feeds the soul
From Quentin Scholtz, Danville — Grace Café is a wonderfully inclusive restaurant that, as a Christian, causes me…
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Fiscal court’s new window is a small step toward openness
Sometimes, small things are worth noticing because they touch on much larger issues. The Boyle County Fiscal Court…
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Thriving rural communities do development differently
EDITORIAL The Advocate-Messenger To hear many people tell it, rural America is on the decline. Our towns and…
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Resident-only open records laws are harmful, ineffective
By AMYE BENSENHAVER Guest columnist Should Kentucky abandon 44 years of open records law guaranteeing “any person’s” right…
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Letter: Drivers and pedestrian errors cause wrecks on Main Street
From Jerry Leber, Danville — With regard to the traffic safety issues on Main Street, engineering can…
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National politics should look more like local politics
EDITORIAL The Advocate-Messenger National partisanship in the U.S. has been on the rise for decades. We thought political…
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Letter: $8 million too much for fire station
From David Seidel, Danville — $8,000,000 for a new Danville fire station? EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS? The rational approach…
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Will Beshear consider ‘common goals’ of non-teaching taxpayers?
By JIM WATERS Guest columnist Governor-elect Andy Beshear and future First Lady Britainy Beshear are holding an inauguration…
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Still much work to do for Kentucky children
EDITORIAL The Advocate-Messenger What is life like for the children of Kentucky? An annual report released this week…
