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January 1, 2021

Confessions of a ‘fair-weather fan’

Last Saturday, I skipped watching nearly all of the basketball game between the universities of Kentucky and Louisville for the first time in my memory.….

i voted sticker lot
November 20, 2020

Voter apathy? Not so fast

For as long as I can recall, pundits and “average Joes” alike have lamented the fact that Americans do not vote in large numbers. This…

red leaf trees near the road
November 6, 2020

Enjoying Kentucky’s four seasons

I went out for my usual early morning walk recently and took in a gorgeous autumn spectacle. A crystal blue sky ruled over a landscape bursting with…

October 22, 2020

Main Street can be our ‘rising tide’

Many years ago, before I began my career in IT, I worked for several years in restaurant management. I started as an assistant manager at a brand-new fast…

August 28, 2020

Who do you trust?

What follows is an actual — albeit lightly edited — portion of an online conversation I had last week with a social media correspondent. I’ll call…

August 7, 2020

John Lewis’ legacy of passive resistance

I was a kid in the 1960s. I was too young to scarcely notice, much less comprehend, the tremendous changes occurring in the US. I did have…

July 17, 2020

Changing team names put in perspective

Our priorities are out of whack. This week, the owner of the NFL football franchise in Washington, DC, announced the organization would be changing its name.…

July 3, 2020

Trump’s biggest failure

News broke last weekend that Russia has been paying bounties for the lives of coalition troops serving in Afghanistan. According to the New York…

June 26, 2020

The election day disaster that wasn’t

In Tuesday’s print edition of The Sun, my friend and colleague Chuck Witt warned against credulously accepting all information found in media outlets. He…

The author and his Pop, May, 2007
June 19, 2020

Remembering my “Pop”

I’m a proud second-generation Greek-American. My father, George Koutoulas, came alone to the U.S. in 1955 when he was 19 to work in his uncle’s…

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