Paducah’s City Commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday to pass a local Fairness Ordinance, making it the ninth city in Kentucky to do so, and the only such city in Western Kentucky. The ordinance was an amendment to the city’s existing anti-discrimination ordinance, which had been on the books
After conducting an Open Records Act investigation of all 173 school districts across the state, The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (ACLU-KY) has found several schools offering “Bible literacy” classes that fall outside the boundaries of state and federal law. The investigation stems from the passage of the controversial
Mitch McConnell is the wealthiest Kentucky Congressperson, but he’s only #39 overall. And the rest of Kentucky’s delegation is out of the top 50, with one having a negative net worth. All of this is based on Roll Call’s latest Wealth of Congress Index, which uses financial
You’ve been robbed. The train you’re riding on, the USA Express, was just stopped, boarded, and robbed. The robbers went through the cars, stealing what they wanted, but with one diabolical twist: the poorer you were, the more they took. And if you were very wealthy, they actually
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had barely finished making his fabulist prediction that the GOP tax bill would add nothing to the deficit when his fellow Republicans started saying that the deficit will force them to curb Medicare and other safety-net programs on which almost all Americans depend. McConnell insists
Once I got over the shock of reading the headline of Dan Johnson’s suicide, my overwhelming emotion was sadness. Sadness at the unnecessary end of his life. Sadness for his family and friends and church members. Sadness, also, for the victims of his life, as outlined in the KyCIR
Dear Kentucky lawmakers, Do you see this picture? This is the front of the church where I worship. And those are crosses. Crosses on the lawn of our church. Every December, on the Sunday in Advent when we celebrate Peace, we mark the opposite of peace in our city by
A few weeks ago, we gave Senator Mitch McConnell an atta-boy badge for his statement regarding the Roy Moore allegations: “I believe the women.” Aaron Smith captured the moment: But now, after our dear senior senator walked that back and left it to the voters of Alabama to maintain some
By word and deed, Donald Trump is a racist. Yet much of the mainstream media plays down race as a big, if not the biggest, factor in the president’s appeal to white voters. “The race thing freaks them out,” said Joy Reid, host of MSNBC’s AM Joy. Mainstream
When the comm director for the Republicans files a lawsuit stating that the sexual harassment claimant had sex with the former speaker, and when both the speaker and the claimant later say that that never happened, then someone is lying. Who is it? Could be Daisy Olivo, the comm director
What if you could do something that would improve health, reduce addictions, and raise money for the state, all at the same time? Sound good? Then we agree: it’s time to raise the cigarette tax. Some facts to consider: * Kentucky leads the nation in adults who smoke. (CDC) (United
News: “Senate Republicans Pass Sweeping Tax Bill,” via New York Times. “The Senate passed the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades early Saturday, with Republicans lining up to approve an overhaul that will touch almost every corner of the United States economy, affecting families, small business owners and multinational corporations,
“The people don’t want a phony Democrat,” President Harry Truman warned in 1952. “If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time.” In rural Kentucky, Democratic candidates often duck or downplay their party affiliation.
Didn’t hear the Donald Trump Halloween joke? Don’t worry—Kentucky Democrats, still buoyed by the Virginia and New Jersey election results, keep on telling it. “What do Donald Trump and a pumpkin have in common?” “They’re orange on the outside, hollow on the inside, and should be
For our senior senator, it hasn’t mattered what norms you have flaunted or crimes you have committed, as long as you had an (R) after your name. With Roy Moore, Mitch McConnell finally found a Republican even he couldn’t support. Seeing this, Aaron Smith thought it was time
I don’t know if Matt Bevin studied Roman history. But it looks like the governor is using Julius Caesar’s famous strategy with his public pension-gutting bill. Caesar added Gaul (France today) to the Roman empire with a one-two punch: a powerful army and splitting up the Gallic people.
