With a unanimous vote tonight, Maysville (population 8,866) became the tenth Kentucky city to adopt a Fairness Ordinance, prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, protecting all LGBTQ people. Situated on the banks of the Ohio River in northeastern Kentucky, Maysville
Berry Craig and Bruce Maples both took pictures while at Fancy Farm. Here are those pictures, arranged in three groups: * Around and About – pictures taken around the Fancy Farm complex, including some before the crowds started arriving * The Speakers – shots of the various speakers at the afternoon “stump speech” time
For anyone, it’s a milestone when your name takes on a meaning all its own. For an elected official like Rand Paul, it can be an honor – or something else. Our junior Senator has, for some time, followed a script when it comes to major decisions in the U.
If you’re wondering why our state government keeps cutting our colleges … or wants to throw thousands off Medicaid … and wants to cut Medicare … and says it can’t take care of our teachers … because there is NOT ENOUGH MONEY … and yet supposedly our economy is going great guns and
A Vox “First-Person” story by Richard Becker On a bitterly cold day in late January, I knocked on the door of a home in Louisville, Kentucky’s Camp Taylor neighborhood. I was running for state representative in a Democratic primary and was spreading the word about my candidacy. Camp Taylor
Cruelty merged with incompetence when the U.S. government started ripping immigrant children from their parents. President Donald Trump changed the policy after it was widely denounced. Yet his administration still can’t manage to get families back together. Federal agencies appeared to be making it up as they went
My recent musing on the Wilkinson v. Sanders confrontation prompted some interesting questions from FK editor-webmaster Bruce Maples. In case you missed the column, I suggested that by not serving Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Virginia café owner Stephanie Wilkinson “unwittingly enabled the viper to play the victim.” I described Sanders as
M ike Petrilli is one of the self-appointed leaders of the corporate reform of education movement, and also has a day job as president of the Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank with a focus on education. His bio says that “he is one of the nation’s most trusted
Students nationwide hear all of the time about the beauty of the U.S. Constitution. But, when it was ratified in 1788, the U.S. Constitution contained considerable flaws: counting the enslaved as three-fifths of a person; no guarantee of freedom of the press, assembly, religion, or expression; no limits
S tephanie Wilkinson, the Lexington, Va., café owner who showed Sarah Huckabee Sanders the door, reminded me of a preacher who once knocked on our door. Like Sanders, he was of the Jesus-loves-me-but-He-can’t-stand-you persuasion. He showed up, uninvited, in November, 1980. It was right after Ronald Reagan was elected
Before the Rev. Franklin Graham criticized the administration’s policy of separating immigrant families at the border, he claimed “progressive” was “just another word for godless.” Graham is one of President Trump’s most zealous holy warriors. Despite his rare and surprising rebuke of the president, there’s no evidence
I’ve been doing activism in various ways for a while now. Canvassing (“door knocking”), rallies, voter registration, marches, calling/faxing/emailing, and so on. And for most of these actions, the focus was on getting enough people there to have the event. So, I’m a sorta-old white guy,
Anyone with a shred of empathy must be sickened by what our country is doing at the border. Anyone with a shred of empathy must be sickened by what our country is doing at the border.Click To Tweet Science tells us that childhood trauma causes lifelong physical and emotional
You say you want really good journalism? You say you want reporting that is objective, even-handed, and well-done? You say you believe that the press is part of protecting us from government and corporate overreach? You say that investigative reporting is key to uncovering secrets that harm us in some
Reporters and TV talking heads who keep calling Donald Trump a “populist” need to read some history, or maybe dig up an old Robert Shrum essay. “Donald J. Trump is a populist in the same sense that the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea is democratic,” Shrum, a Southern
“The new normal.” It’s a phrase heard more and more in both national and state politics. It means we just have to accept whatever is happening, because it is now what’s normal and acceptable. We’re calling BS. Loudly. As the two sentences say on our featured image,
