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Posted on: March 11, 2009
 "....I alternated laughing out loud and feeling pity for the boys from start to finish. The main characters are easy to relate to, I certainly remember a group similar to the flophouse gang in my neighborhood growing up. This novel shows us community at its best, diverse people coming together to try to help one another."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Under the definition of "voracious reader", you will find the name of the most recent addition to the Mississippi River Journal family - Jarrin Rudd. Jarrin's an egg farmer here in Hickman County and one of the most widely read people we know. His reviews will start soon in MissRiverJo - I'm just jumping the gun and giving him a performance in Connecticut before he hits the big time.
Posted on: March 11, 2009
So, here's the question. Did I miss anything?
Posted on: February 13, 2009
Report scammers, price gougers and nefarious characters to the KY Attorney General http://ag.ky.gov
Report public utility issues, (outages, billing disputes, etc. ) to the Kentucky Public Service Commission. http://psc.ky.gov/cis/inquiry.aspx
Posted on: February 13, 2009
 Sheriff Jon Hayden seems to be everywhere in the Purchase since he took office just a few years ago. Task forces, drug busts, joint campaigns with state and federal agencies, Hayden and his deputies have raised the level of professional policing throughout the region.
Hayden has won the respect of McCracken Countians for his straight shooter demeanor and his Detective Joe Friday approach to law enforcement.
We heard a storm story last week about McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden that, while it may not be perfectly word for word, sure sounds like him.
Photos with this story are from the Sheriff Department's new website www.mccrackencountysheriff.com . At left, Governor Beshear and Sheriff Hayden survey an icy scene in Paducah last week.
Democratic voter registration is concerated in 39 counties. These mega voter counties account for 995,370 or 70% of the total Democratic voters in Kentucky.
Ten counties in West Kentucky have 207,069 (14.5%) voters. Another ten counties. All of western Kentucky contains 20% of the total statewide Democratic vote. The table below spells out county by county totals.
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Editor's Note: Kim Kraemer graciously allowed me to republish her account of coping with Ice Storm 09 in the Grand Rivers.
The ice storm was beyond description. We lost power. We lost water. We lost phones. What we did not lose was the spirit of this community. 
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Bluegrass Politics is reporting that Sen. Ken Winters’ (R- Murray) .jpg) bill to allow students to graduate in three years with 15 credits and a 3.00 grade point average “sailed” through the Senate yesterday. Students will have to complete a curriculum mix set out in the bill.
Posted on: February 10, 2009
 As the days pass, the weather becomes kind - temperatures in the 60's and popping up to a balmy 70. The warming shelter is closed. Food and bottled water are being distributed. Clean up of the thousands of tree limbs that seem to be down everywhere will take a long time.
Some of us are back to normal. Some of us still have no power. None of us are unchanged by the ordeal we have been through.
Electricity is not a luxury. It is a necessity of life. Few who depend on it will ever forget that fact.
Posted on: February 10, 2009
 House District 94 Rep. Leslie Combs chosen to lead Administrative Regulations Committee by Speaker Stumbo
Posted on: February 10, 2009
Trucks bearing the logo of several well known alcoholic beverages circled the Capitol in Frankfort today protesting a proposed raise in the liquor tax.
According to eyewitness reports, the truckers tied up traffic - creating a bit of a jam during the noon hour.
Tourists and school groups visiting the Capital City got an up close and personal look at democracy in action.
Despite the protest, the proposed tax was passed out of a House committee today.
Posted on: February 9, 2009
Sunday, February 1st, We gathered together and thanked God for the sun and a power that couldn't be frozen by an ice storm - love of God, family, friends and neighbors.
Posted on: February 9, 2009
 What experiences we have had here in Hickman County since the Great Ice Storm of '09 battered us! For hours the night air was filled with the crackling of thousands of falling ice covered tree limbs interspersed with the sudden, piercing, snap of a shattered tree trunk or power pole. The tinkling sound of broken glass was everywhere as they fell.
Posted on: February 9, 2009
Broken poles, broken transformers, broken lines, broken trees.  Think of the scene from Siberia when all the trees were blown down in the early 1900s by some unknown force. The damage was everywhere.
The Kentucky National Guard came to town. They went door to door and offered assistance. They cleared brush and patrolled our neighborhoods. Strange as it might sound, the arrival of the National Guard lightened our hearts and brought hope that we would soon be getting back to normal.
Posted on: February 9, 2009
 Gov. Steve Beshear and Sec. Janet Napolitano were in Paducah for a press briefing on storm damage recovery efforts Tuesday. The briefing, held outside in the rain, produced a pledge from the new Homeland Security Director that Kentucky would be reimbursed 75% of the costs of activating the National Guard.
Posted on: February 8, 2009
So, Ivan says to me first thing Wednesday morning. "Well. The storm is over. It can't get any worse". 
My pithy reply of "Shut up and don't tempt fate." is drowned out by the crashing of a huge tree falling across Jefferson Street, blocking our drive. He was right in a way. No one was hurt. The tree missed the mobile home and our house. Considering it was strong enough to pull up slabs of sidewalk, it could have been much worse.
Posted on: January 26, 2009
Ivan and I were on Berry Craig's Notebook from Western Kentucky Community & Technical College this past Friday. The show runs a half hour. Berry is a former reporter so he invited us to ask why any sane person would start a newspaper in the present journalistic climate.
Answer: No sane person would. Only a crazy futurist and his equally crazy wife would.
Among the highlights: Ivan predicting major changes for newspapers in the future, Berry looking back at newspaper distribution past, present and future and we all say nice things: about modern times; about PageOneKY.com ; about Mark Nickolas, whose log “Bluegrass Report” got the blogosphere going in Kentucky.
Posted on: January 22, 2009
(January 17, 2009) We made it to the Martin Luther King March on Monday. About 40 folks showed up at little Moore's Chapel AME Church and the strung out parade walked the broken sidewalks south to the Hickman County Courthouse- (hey, proportionate to our population, that would be 50K in NYC!).
One of my favorite stories on WKJ - rerunning it here 11 years later)
Posted on: January 18, 2009
By: Mary Potter, West Kentucky Journal
So, we're watching our usual morning news shows Tuesday morning, flipping from C-SPAN to CNBC to Fox Business to Bloomberg, then on to MSNBC when we hear a most astounding statement uttered in Nooh Yawk City about where the Grand Ole Party is going.
Spillin' coffee on the covers, I copied the quote word for word to share with our friends who may have missed Morning Joe that day.
Posted on: January 17, 2009
Ballard County had the lowest teen pregnancy rate in the region with the lowest teen pregnancy rate in the state. What's are the numbers in other regions and what is Kentucky doing to address unplanned teen pregnancies. The story after the jump.
Posted on: January 17, 2009
New Hampshire is taking a broad approach to teen pregnancy prevention. With the lowest rate of teen pregnancy in the nation, NH officials focus broad spectrum approach which includes but doesn't totally rely on abstinence only.
Posted on: January 17, 2009
 The saying goes that altitude depends on attitude, or how high one goes in life depends on one’s outlook. For teen moms, their altitude includes diapers, midnight feedings, baby formula in addition to midterms, ballgames and what to wear to prom. For too many of these moms, the whole mixing school and baby becomes a series of choices for an overwhelmed and exhausted girl. Choices must be made.
Posted on: January 17, 2009
There is a financial cost to teen pregnancy to the taxpayer. Teen moms who need government assistance because they cannot work, children who have special needs because their mom didn't get prenatal care early on, court systems and paternity enforcement agencies going after dads, schools that won't get the average daily attendance money for moms that drop out, the costs go on.
Editor's Note: this article was published January 17, 2009.
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