It was always a long shot, but Louisville city leaders gave it the old college try. They put together a package to land the second Amazon headquarters, but didn’t make the finals. As it turns out, perhaps that is actually a good thing. Maybe a VERY good thing. Writing
The biggest slice of baloney in the debate over net metering is that it’s hurting coal, and that the Kentucky Legislature’s bill to kill net metering is somehow pro-coal. The controversy calls up plenty of facts and figures from both sides, but a recurring theme from the legislation’
Somebody should write a sequel to Profiles in Courage and call it Profiles in Cowardice. I’d fill the first chapter with members of Congress who are lackeys for the gun lobby – lawmakers who line their pockets with lucre from the NRA and other pro-gun groups and reward their grubstakers
Twice this week, Governor Bevin has blamed culture, especially video games and television shows, for the school shootings in Kentucky and Florida. He’s wrong. And research shows the real problem: our insane number of guns, and our lax gun laws. A story in the New York Times outlines research
There is no chance – none – that Republicans will do anything about guns. If first-graders being murdered didn’t move them, nothing will. The NRA owns Washington, Frankfort, and all other halls of government. The only thing we will hear from our GOP friends is “thoughts and prayers.” Oh, and “let’
Conservatives are big on “liberty” and “freedom.” The “Liberty Lobby” was a conservative, white supremacist organization started in the late ‘50s. The Liberty Conservative is a right-wing online magazine. There’s the tea party-tilting Republican “Freedom Caucus” in the House of Representatives. “Freedom’s Watch” and “Freedom Works” are pro-GOP
Soon after the 2016 election, Rachel Maddow listed ten hallmarks of American Democracy that make it uniquely American. If any of these are threatened or eliminated, we have lost a key part of our national character, and a key freedom that we cannot take for granted. I thought it would
Fifteen members of the Democratic Socialists of America won election to office in 11 states last year. Jake Bush hopes Louisville voters will add two more next November: Richard Becker, a candidate for the state House of Representatives; and Ryan Fenwick, who wants to be mayor. “It’s an awesome
In his SOTU last night, Pres. Trump included this sentence: “Tonight, I call on Congress to empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.” Give every cabinet secretary the power to remove
I pitched my editor about writing an article about sexual abuse and harassment, because every woman I know has experienced it. When I told him about my own experiences, and he suggested I write my own personal story, I thought “Well, okay.” I lie awake every night for a few
(This is an editorial written by Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center.) Some myths just won’t die, no matter how odious or untrue. And in the Trump
It seems that people can’t resist using pies and pie charts when talking about budgets. Well, Aaron Smith shows us how the education pie is being split in the Governor’s budget – and who’s getting the biggest slice?
Often, publications will honor Martin Luther King Day by reprinting his “I Have a Dream” speech. While that is obviously an historic and moving speech, we think his last speech, delivered in the midst of the Memphis sanitation workers strike, deserves attention as well. It touches on economic rights as
(from the Facebook page of Dr. David Kabithe of Hopkinsville) I never get political on Facebook but I just could not be silent this time. I want the world to know that I come from an African immigrant family. My mother and father are from a “s***hole” country called
Swarms of immigrants loyal to an “inflated … despot” are threatening our country. Determined to force their “false religion” and its “anti-Christian” law on America, these foreigners are “a foe to the very principles we embody in our laws, a foe to all we hold most dear.” They are “the chief
“People were jubilant,” said a happy Chris Hartman. “It was a feeling like no other—the joy – there was a lot of emotion. Some people were crying. A lot of folks said they thought they’d never see it happen.” Tuesday night, the Paducah City Commission approved an ordinance outlawing
