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.)
If you haven’t read Bill Finn’s [https://ky.aflcio.org/news/please-vote-tuesday] plea, read it. If you have, read it [https://ky.aflcio.org/news/please-vote-tuesday] again. “These Democratic candidates for governor are great choices,” he wrote. “Please vote for the one that you think can beat Matt
What’s probably the only thing Gill Holland has in common with Donald Trump and Matt Bevin? All three refuse to release their tax returns. At last night’s KET Democratic lieutenant governor debate, Holland, former auditor Adam Edelen’s wingman, seemed to suggest [https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/
While the U.S. is the most churchgoing nation in Christendom, Kentucky is among the most churchgoing of our states. Woe betide any atheist or agnostic who dares run for office from Paducah to Pikeville. An infidel would probably have a tough row to hoe even in “liberal” Louisville. Most
They are the forgotten veterans of Graves County and most other parts of Kentucky. They played a key role in winning America’s most lethal conflict. Yet no monuments were erected to them in public spaces. Many of them perished from battle wounds or disease. Many who survived were disabled;
Going on four years ago, fewer than31 percent [https://elect.ky.gov/statistics/Documents/voterturnoutagesex-2015G-20160126-033122.pdf] of Kentucky’s eligible voters cast ballots for governor. Who knows what the turnout will be this coming Nov. 5 – but I wish I had a dollar for every excuse I’ve heard for
I got stereotyped again the other day. A Trump fan mistook me for a kindred spirit. Sometimes, liberals pigeonhole me likewise. It’s because I’m an old white guy. The Ever Trumper was an old white guy, too. He didn’t know me from Adam. He praised the president,
The controversial statues of Confederate Maj. John B. Castleman and nativist Louisville Journal editor George D. Prentice will be gone by the end of the year, according to news reports. Good riddance. A special panel named by Mayor Greg Fischer said the monuments “honoring the Confederacy are unwelcome in Louisville
First District Congressman James Comer brought his dog whistle to Fancy Farm and the Republican white folks heard it loud and clear.
“Are working-class white voters shooting themselves in the foot by making common cause with a political movement that is fundamentally inimical to their economic self-interest?” Joshua Zeitzasked [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/31/trump-white-working-class-history-216200] inPoliticoonline. APoliticocontributing editor, Zeitz meant Trumpism. The multitude of blue collar whites who’
