Stories from Saturday, July 23, 2022

Thomas Jefferson famously declared, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Jefferson knew that local papers were vital to a thriving democracy, and that notion is as true today as it was at our nation’s beginning. ...

(RIGHT) Betty (Stinson) Whitehead, center, holds her great-grandson Matthew Miller, alongside her son Ed Whitehead of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and granddaughter Kate Miller of Dallas, Texas. Matthew’s birth makes Betty Whitehead the matriarch of four generations. ...