A political race card for Derby visitors, real and virtual
Whether it’s a political horse race or a horsey horse race, you’ve got to have a race card to know who’s who. For all our Derby guests, Al Cross provides one.
Whether it’s a political horse race or a horsey horse race, you’ve got to have a race card to know who’s who. For all our Derby guests, Al Cross provides one.
Is your image of eastern Kentucky that of dying towns and fleeing populations? Perhaps you need to take a second look.
Plus, Al Cross digs into other upcoming races, including other candidates for Senate and the 2027 governor’s race.
Former auditor and multiple-time candidate George Atkins died April 14th. His name is largely forgotten today, but the lessons of his life still resonate.
Did the General Assembly use its resources to make a difference in the lives of everyday Kentuckians?
Al Cross does the “bookkeeping” on this year’s session
McConnell’s taking care of his business, but not the country’s business.
If Trump wins in November, that could guarantee a Republican majority in the Senate, but now the party is the Republican Party in name only. It is the Trump Party, and that is not a party in which Mitch McConnell belongs.
Mitch McConnell’s legacy looked fairly certain just a few years ago. But Trump has turned all of that upside down, and how McConnell handles 2024 may well be what people remember the most.
This is the season of gift-giving, and Al Cross has some special (and pointed) gifts for our elected officials.
Al Cross looks at where things stand in next week’s election, including which candidate might capture the “most votes of all the candidates” prize.
The new speaker is definitely not moderate – but can moderates push him toward the center?
Cameron is still not getting the traction he needs, even after spending millions on his campaign. Why? And what can he do about it?
Cameron shows some sympathy for the exception in order to attract moderates, but not so much that he turns off voters like the woman at Wickliffe. Beshear stays vague on a big issue while rightly depicting Cameron as a would-be governor who won’t advance the position held by most voters.
Kentucky never had a governor quite like Brereton Jones, who died Monday, and it may never again. His legacy is one of reform, with lessons for reformers.
Two of the most important leaders in the country are over 80. Yet, we know very little about the state of their health, including their brains. Al Cross says we deserve more.