Today's Opinions

By JUDY CHOWNING

Special to the News-Democrat

Why did I want to be a Big Sister when I had four grandchildren under the age of four?

I thought I could give an hour a week to make a child feel as special as I tried to make my own grandchildren feel.

Tara was in kindergarten when we started meeting at school in 2010. I was babysitting three days a week for two of my grandchildren and had visits from my others regularly I visited with Tara on days that I had off from my Grammy duties.

 With summer here, we all begin to try to eat more fruits and vegetables for their benefits and light-meal preparation adaptability.

With that, we have to be aware of the fruits and vegetables we purchase. The Environ-mental Working Group recently published its annual guide to the top 12 fruits and vegetables with pesticides.

How this
helps you

Choose organic produce when buying anything on the dirty dozen list.

From The Sentinel-News

We understand that expansion of the Medicaid plan as part of the Affordable Care Act is seen as a political football, a topic to be kicked back and forth across a field of ideology with not a whole lot of regard for the players involved.

We also admit that we don’t have the sufficient grasp of either the process or economics to reinforce the decision last week by Gov. Steve Beshear to expand the rolls and open up the possibility that perhaps 300,000 more Kentuckians can have access to health insurance.