Merlene Davis

When I first attended the University of Kentucky in 1969, I joined a choir called the Black Voices.

In 2004, Gerard Badger retired from his second career and moved with his wife, Rita, to Lexington from New Jersey.

Time and time again, research has shown that the poor and minorities come up on the short end of the longevity stick.

Some of the blame can be placed on inactivity and dietary choices.

On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the first of two executive orders known as the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a warning to the states that had seceded that in 100 days, he would free the slaves within their borders if they did not rejoin the union.

This election cycle has been the most interesting I have ever witnessed, what with its plot twists and character flaws and humanity.

Soon after Barack Obama officially won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination Wednesday evening but before he accepted on Thursday, TV cameras caught black people crying on the floor of the convention.

As funerals go, I'd like to have one like the one held in celebration of my brother's life.

Whenever I saw ­interviews ­featuring Randy Pausch, the ­Carnegie Mellon ­University ­computer science professor who became the public face of p­ancreatic cancer, I would breathe easier.

The day before Veterans Day 2006, Charles ”Chuck“ Stoner of Wilmore drove to Dayton, Ohio, so he could be at the airport early the next morning.

This page is filled with information and suggestions, compassion and empathy for those parents of younger children who will be headed back to school.

At 6:30 p.m. Thursday ­— as in tonight — Jack and Ann Salyer invite you to stop by NorthEast Christian Church and join their friends, fellow church members and strangers as they help students in need.

Anna Kate McFarland, 17, stood in the middle of a group of women old enough to be her mother, or possibly her grandmother, teaching us how to fold a 2-inch piece of duct tape into a pentagon shape that would, with our patience and her nurturing, become a petal on a rose.

Poor Phil Gramm. There's not a lot that comes out of his mouth that I agree with, but his remarks recently that the United States is a nation of whiners weren't that far off base.
POLL: Are Americans whiners?

I think I'm pretty transparent in my beliefs. I have no problem saying what I think when asked.

My husband and I, like many other folks in ­Lexington, have been looking for a used vehicle that sips gasoline sparingly.

One of my sons' friends dropped by recently to proudly tell us he had joined the Navy and couldn't wait to start basic training.

During the summer of 2006, ­Lexington's Adam Rector traveled to Kenya and spent two months living in a mud, stick and dung hut ­without the luxuries of running water and electricity.

Nearly 47 years ago, a group of students from various ­Southern colleges and ­universities, probably without telling their parents, climbed aboard buses for a violent ­destination in the history books.

Susan Burgess Laux looks ”normal.“

Something comes over me in the spring that compels me to dig in dirt and to plant and transplant things and throw mulch wherever I can.