People in coal country aren’t waiting around for their mining jobs to return, says a group of researchers who just published a report on focus groups held in Appalachian coal communities. “Concepts like the war on coal came up,” Indiana University Associate Professor Sanya Carley told Forward Kentucky. “But
As sexual harassment reports continue to grow, attention is turning from business leaders and Hollywood executives to another center of power: government. And as noted in a report from Governing magazine, increasingly that focus is moving to the state house. Some lawmakers, including some Republicans in Kentucky, consider that emphasis
Three Kentucky GOP legislators introduced a bill earlier this year to get rid of the General Assembly’s mandatory sexual harassment training. The bill, SB 152, was sponsored by Sens. John Schickel, Paul Hornback, and Tom Buford. The bill died in committee during the 2017 regular session, but not before
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s press secretary, warned a reporter that it was “highly inappropriate” to question “a four-star Marine general.” She meant John Kelly, the retired Marine brass hat who is the president’s chief-of-staff. This reporter-turned-historian wouldn’t for a second quibble with Kelly’s military record.
It started as a discussion among a few friends. “We’ve got to do something about this pension bill. At least, give ourselves a safe place to vent, and maybe even plan some rallies or something.” So, they started a secret Facebook group, and invited some of their friends to
Kelly Knight Craft, newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Canada and native Kentuckian, said in an interview that she believes “both sides” of the climate change issue. You know there are good sciences on both issues and I believe that we are committed to our environment. Obviously, there are a lot
Veteran Democratic activist Herb Pritchett of Henderson doesn’t mince words about his party’s predicament. “We are not going to win just by being against Trump and against Bevin,” warned Pritchett, who’s on the Kentucky Democratic Party’s state central committee. “We lost [in 2016] because we failed
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein revelations (and the ongoing presidency of Donald Trump), women everywhere are posting their own stories of dismissal, discrimination, harassment, and assault. Yesterday we came across one from a source one would not immediately expect: a female pastor. And yet, even within a supposed
About 20 union members and union allies converged on a rural Garrard County tobacco farm Sunday to back seven striking Mexican migrant workers. Few of the visitors could speak Spanish. None of the strikers speak English. “Though communication had to take place through interpreters, the meaning of solidarity came through
Not since the heyday of Henry Clay and the Whigs have the Democrats been in such dire straits in the Bluegrass State. Kentucky has voted Republican in the last five presidential elections. Both of Kentucky’s U.S. senators are Republicans. So are five of its six House members. The
A few years and a few months ago, I found the body of my abusive ex-boyfriend outside my apartment. He had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after attempting to break into my home and also shoot me. That day changed my life and my heart. That day made me
At a recent meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Education, various Republican members tried to turn Jefferson County Public Schools into their own personal punching bag. Unfortunately for them, their attacks on JCPS wound up boomeranging back into their own faces. Senator Alice Forgy Kerr stated that if property
The first thing you notice about Saeeda is her quiet strength. Once you learn her story, you realize where it comes from. She was raised in an extremely oppressive society in Pakistan, and her mother, a product of that oppressiveness, wanted her to be an agreeable and docile female, but
I’ve been struck recently by the similar responses conservatives/Libertarians have given to a number of crises and pressing policy questions. Essentially, all of them reveal one common feature of conservative philosophy: You’re on your own. Here are a few of the situations that triggered this insight: Healthcare
Governor Bevin said you “can’t regulate evil.” We posted a response: Dear Governor: They’re called “laws.” That’s how civilized societies try to regulate evil. 1/ — ForwardKY (@ForwardKy) October 2, 2017 All laws reflect the moral judgments of the people who write them. 2/ — ForwardKY (@ForwardKy) October 2,
Gay Adelmann is a Louisville parent and a public education activist. She is also one of our contributors, AND a co-founder of Dear JCPS and Save Our Schools Kentucky. So, when a state legislator asked her opinion of how our state uses test scores, she shared a detailed critique of
