January 22, 2013 - 11:56am
Imprisoned for two decades in Chinese prison camps for his political viewpoints, Harry Wu now has a story and a message to share in the fight for human rights. Join him in conjunction with UofL for a special lecture tomorrow, Wednesday, January 23rd at 7pm.
All life is suffering. This is one of those small sentences that become permanently stained on your sense of Self. It is something I took away from a class on East Asian Religion eons ago and has made me feel the right kind of gray and still and calm in the deep parts of the night when I...
October 15, 2012 - 4:12pm
You've read all about the different methods for preventing teen pregnancies, but you probably haven't heard of this one.
How ironic that the hot-button election time battles over teen pregnancy are being waged by what are called “interest groups,” when in pocketbook issues America, the public itself largely isn’t interested.People care, but too many of them care just enough to click here to sign our...
September 21, 2012 - 1:11pm
What on Earth could have transformed Mitch McConnell from a baron of subdivision drainage and park maintenance 30 years ago into the bare-knuckled power-wielder for the nation’s elites? Louisvillian George Morrison recalls an encounter that may have shaped McConnell into the man -- and politician -- we know today.
George Morrison, of Louisville, retired from the table busing profession in 1979. Today he is the self-published author of two science fiction novels, “Out From It All” and “Worlds,” and the former editor of “FORsooth,” the Louisville Fellowship of...
September 20, 2012 - 3:42pm
Uncover the revolutionary life of Kentucky’s own James Gillespie Birney, the nation’s first anti-slavery presidential candidate, as author D. Laurence Rogers presents his new book ‘Apostles of Equality’ at The Filson Historical Society Tuesday, September 25th, at 12pm.
Ahh…the change of sweeter air. We have been feasting on a tremendous spread of glorious weather as the transition into the Autumn-time inches closer. The suffocating stranglehold of summer humidity has gracefully loosened into the effervescent tides of cool, rich air and soft...
September 10, 2012 - 3:03pm
Former writer says C-J 'has its liberals, but also its conservatives and centrists.'
I spent 17 years reporting for the Courier-Journal as an independent contractor journalist. I was in the newsroom daily for most of that time, working or rubbing elbows with some of the legends of the era of Bingham family ownership. Those decades of the family’s publishing...
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