Attention Kentucky payday lenders. Child advocates have you in their sights, as they unveil their legislative priorities for the 2009 Kentucky General Assembly.
As America suffers through a recession, the future can seem like a scary place. Yesterday, more than 100 students filed through a job fair at Concord University. As the jobs in the country become scarcer ,the competition is getting more fierce.
From 1935 until the mid-1970’s, drug abusers from the eastern United States went to a federal prison in Lexington, KY. Besides imprisoning and treating inmates, the U.S. Federal Narcotic Farm also became a research center into hallucinogenic drugs like LSD. The narcotic farm is the subject of a documentary co-produced by film maker J. P. Olsen, also co-producer. “The Narcotic Farm” premiered this month on Kentucky Educational Television.
Members of the Legislature, judiciary and local government are got together this week to discuss West Virginia's correctional system. The conference gives state and local officials a chance to discuss ways to address overcrowding in the state's prisons. The system is designed to hold about 6,000 inmates and the state has already surpassed that mark. About 1,000 inmates confined in regional jails are awaiting bed space in a state prison. Joe Thornton is with the state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety.
Like the banjo, fiddle and dulcimer in Appalachia, the Indian sitar is an instrument that is handed down from generation to generation. Roni Raju learned the instrument from her mother and now is now passing on this ancient traditional music to others.
By Jennifer Szweda Jordan, Allegheny Front
If you've always dreamed of life on a farm, a vacation among barns and billy goats may be for you. Visit a farm where chores are part of the fun for guests. It's one piece of the agri-tourism movement.
This story is part of The Allegheny Front’s Earth's Bounty series on food and the environment.
If you haven’t heard him performing hits like Soldier, Leap of Faith and I Watched It on the Radio, you’ve probably heard one of the many musical themes Lionel Cartwright has composed, performed and produced for Home and Garden Television, the Food Network, Nickelodeon or the Discovery, History or Travel Channels. The West Virginia native surprised many in Nashville in the 1990s when he chose his family over success at topping country music charts. Today, Cartwright says he enjoys being a husband and father and a professional musician.