Berry Craig is a professor emeritus of history at West KY Community College, and an author of seven books and co-author of two more. (Read the rest on the Contributors page.)
Kentucky Democratic activist Daniel Hurt has a warning for his party: "Don't let the Republicans who voted against the infrastructure bill take credit for the construction projects when the groundbreaking starts."
If you read the headlines, you would think Democrats really messed up last Tuesday, and the ceiling is caving in on them. But Democratic agony and Republican ecstasy from last Tuesday might be a tad premature.
What we saw in Virginia in the closing days of the Youngkin campaign was the Republican playbook for 2022 in the midterms, in 2023 in Kentucky against Gov. Beshear, and certainly in 2024 against President Biden.
The GOP is now owned by Trump and the Trump cult. It's time for true conservatives to find (or build) a new home.
Charles Booker is raising a whiskey glass to organized labor. The union-made tumbler is available to anybody who chips in $20 or more to his campaign, and part of the proceeds will go toward supporting the workers who won a recent contract with Heaven Hill.
GOP lawmakers in the Lone Star State passed legislation banning critical race theory from K-12 classrooms and warning teachers who teach contentious topics not to "defer to any one perspective." Some of their Republican Kentucky kindreds have pre-filed anti-CRT [https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/G8EFC5yw29hMmrjYQF2u70n?domain=kentucky.com]
You may call yourself Dem or Repub – but in reality, you are probably a Social Democrat. Surprised? Read the list of what Social Democrats stand for and see.
I don't know if Sen. Rand Paul pegged Charles Booker as a doormat Democrat. Booker seems to be pretty soft-spoken and a really nice guy. But he's proving to be anything but a pushover, one-two punching Paul and Sen. Mitch McConnell.
A month-long strike at one of the country’s biggest distilleries merits more national media attention than it has received, says Bill Londrigan, Kentucky State AFL-CIO president.
Hard-right, anti-abortion Republicans rule the political roost in the Jackson Purchase. But last Saturday, a group of about 40 women, plus around 10 men and boys, rallied in Paducah, the region’s main town, in support of Roe v. Wade and against state anti-abortion measures.
I wish I had a crisp new Hamilton for every time I've heard somebody say, "I don't vote because there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats." But in reality, there really are big differences between most Democrats and most Republicans. Take COVID, for example.
Not the UK football team – this is about school systems, mask mandates, and whether or not this means people are tired of GOP shenanigans and are ready to elect a Dem to the Senate.
Berry Craig interviews Tamarra Wieder, director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates for Kentucky, about the Texas abortion law, and the future of women's healthcare access in Kentucky.
Charles Booker and Sen. Rand Paul are practicing what they preach about COVID 19. By word and deed, Booker's for social responsibility. Paul's a Covidiot.
An overwhelming majority of Americans are sick of being held hostage by an ignorant, belligerent, anti-science minority. And that loudmouth minority are about to find out what the majority really thinks of them.
Whose pictures would go on our Wall of Shame? All those leges who voted to put our children's lives at risk.
