After a drop due to the COVID pandemic, new research [https://kypolicy.org/2022-kentucky-general-assembly-passed-more-bills-increasing-incarceration-and-failed-to-make-needed-justice-changes/] found Kentucky is once again crowding more people into jails and prisons. The Bluegrass State has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, and some experts believe it is a direct result of state
According to LWVKY, there are some good things in the map. However, there are also some significant problems. And, they responded directly to Rep. Jerry Miller.
Dr. Neal Turpin is challenging Tom Burch for the Democratic nomination for House District 30. (Disclaimer: He is a contributor to ForwardKY.) We interviewed Dr. Turpin to ask him why he decided to run for this seat at this time, what his goals are, and what he is passionate about.
On this podcast, we talk with Alex Flood about the project to eliminate cash bail in Louisville: why it is ultimately both unconstitutional and morally bankrupt, and what we could do instead.
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Even in non-election years like this one, I hear people gripe that there’s no point in voting. They claim that voting is a waste of time because there’s not much difference between most Democrats and most Republicans and because “they’re all crooks.” All politicians are not crooked.
The five freedoms of the First Amendment Congress shall make no law (1) respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or (2) abridging the freedom of speech, or (3) of the press; or the right of the people (4) peaceably to assemble, and to (5) petition
A guest analysis by Scott Horn, co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition Property Valuation Administrators are earning big bucks selling public records back to the public. In the current fiscal year, they project $1.8 million dollars in income from “miscellaneous” sources. The Department of Revenue can’t tell
A guest commentary by Dr. Tom Hastings After decades of educating us about the horrific history of Texas slaveowners refusing to let their illegally kept African-descended humans know that they were actually free, then-89-year-old African American activist Opal Lee began her historic 1,400-mile walk from her Texas home to
American history is replete with warnings of impending disaster that went unheeded: Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and more recently the climate crisis, Covid-19, and 1/6. Now comes another warning, a “Statement of Concern” (June 1, 2021) from more than 100 authorities on democracy who tell us that the Republicans’
When he heard that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said GOP-backed voter suppression laws really aren’t designed to keep minorities away from the polls, Murray State University historian Bill Mulligan turned to the Good Book. “Increasingly, the old proverb, derived from one of the Gospels [Matthew 13:13], ‘There
The Right has long worshipped no-holds-barred, free-market capitalism. Or so they claimed. But the truth is that, like their alleged devotion to small government, it was always a lie. No Trump sycophant worth his salt hasn’t lamented about these “woke” corporations who won’t go along with the Republican
“Few people think of unions or the plight of the working class when they think of Memorial Day,” Ahmed White wrote in Jacobin magazine four Memorial Days ago. “But they should,” he added. That goes double for those of us who pack union cards. Here in Kentucky, and nationwide, thousands
A guest commentary by William E. Ellis I am an 81 year-old historian, having taught at the high school, junior college, and senior college levels, the last posting at Eastern Kentucky University for 29 years. My major professors always warned about being “present-minded,” by placing or comparing current events into
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is fed up with the media narrative that Republicans won’t buck Donald Trump because he’s got them shaking in their Guccis or Manolos. “We covered this incorrectly,” she cut loose on the Fourth Estate the other day. “Fear of Trump was the excuse. For
