Columns

It has been a very busy summer. We are using our resources in a most efficient way. Businesses are partnering to reinstall the security lights on the KY 210 bypass. After working through much red tape, the project has just been approved to begin work.

The city’s street department, the Campbellsville Water and Sewer Co. and Taylor County Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. will perform the work. Taylor County RECC developed a plan that was submitted to the state for approval.

News of the deadly shooting in a Colorado movie theater awaited us all as we got out of bed Friday morning.

Shocked. Stunned. Speechless.

Well, sort of.

It’s sad, but it’s true. We have so many things of this nature — violent, cruel and senseless acts — that take place in our world these days, we are seldom truly surprised.

We certainly don’t expect these violent acts, but wicked people cross the lines of normalcy so often these days, it’s hard to feel completely surprised.

We all have a story. Now we can all be part of changing that story.

Taylor Regional Hospital is doing something very exciting. They are participating in an American Cancer Society study to help pinpoint what causes cancer.

Can you imagine a world without cancer? I hope I live to see that day.

I still remember how I felt when I heard my grandfather, and then later my grandmother, had cancer. I had a feeling that their lifespan would be cut short by the terrible disease.

Jimmy Higdon

State Senator

There’s been a lot of media attention lately, both locally and nationally, about states’ public pensions.

Kentucky isn’t immune to the pension issues many other states are facing.

The Commonwealth’s public pension systems administer retirement and retiree health benefits to more than 475,000 current and former employees. As of June 2011, the unfunded liability of those systems was more than $30 billion.