It wasn’t all that long ago when Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron was all but written off as a gubernatorial challenger to Kentucky’s Democrat incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear. In fact, an Emerson College/Fox56 News poll in early October had Beshear…
The combination of class action lawsuits and contingency fee payment arrangements has reached its apotheosis in today’s mass tort system. Not only is this flawed system harming American business to the tune of well over $300 billion annually, but it…
A special session of the New York Legislature is preparing to double down on its slide into radical leftism with a constitutional amendment codifying abortion and contraception as rights. Under the proposed amendment, abortion and contraception access will be guaranteed…
With gas prices breaking $5 and even $6 per gallon, weekly runs to the supermarket have become pricey and painful propositions. At least it’s easier to find parking spots. The bad news is that shelves are emptier, selections limited, and…
My great-grandpa John Jacob Howard (1846–1931) returned from the war in 1865, married Sarah Amanda Coldiron in Bell County, Kentucky, and raised eight kids — five boys and three girls. To all accounts, Great-Grandma Howard (1848–1924) had a knack for…
An old English proverb recorded by John Heywood in 1546 (and who may or not have been a distant relative of mine) has it that: “It is indeed an ill-wind that blows no one good.” The ill wind that blew…
The last two years of on again off again COVID-driven shutdowns, lockdowns, and quarantines decimated my once-well-stocked pantry and has had me leafing through family recipe collections dating back to my great-grandma Sarah Amanda (Coldiron) Howard, the mid-1800’s, and the…
As a physician and a concerned citizen, I spent a good deal of time researching the COVID-19 vaccines as they came online. To be honest, I wasn’t sure about it all at first. Skepticism is a healthy initial response regarding…
An old scrapbook shows faded pictures of my dad’s family back in Bell County, Kentucky. The “hollers.” They were well enough educated. Grandmother Gertrude (Bailey) Howard, and her eldest son Carl, were school teachers. They were well enough dressed, but…