Democrat Greg Stumbo says he's running for state attorney general because he wants to make drug pushers pay. Stumbo, in an interview with The News-Enterprise Editorial Board, said he would establish a Kentucky Bureau of Investigation within the state police and fully staff branch offices in the eastern and western parts of the state. "There are really two types of people that are in this system," Stumbo said of his plan to combat illegal drugs, which he calls "Make Pushers Pay." [continues 352 words]
Much is made of the tragic deaths of '60s rock stars such as Jim Morrison, Jimmie Hendrix and Janis Joplin, voices for a generation gone by. Yet last Friday, the needle took one of the voices of my generation, Layne Staley. For those of you who don't know, Staley was a singer/songwriter with Alice In Chains, a Seattle band that rode the same grunge wave that ushered Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Sound Garden onto the national stage. Staley was part of a revolution in rock 'n roll. He and his contemporaries, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain among them, staged a coup against the corporate-controlled music industry. [continues 568 words]
