I recently had a brief meeting with an official in state government. After I had left, he went into a meeting and someone asked him whom he was talking with. His response? “Just some blogger from Louisville.” When it got back to me, I laughed. It’s no skin off
I did GOTV (“Get Out the Vote”) canvassing today in south Louisville. I always enjoy canvassing, because you get to meet people, make a difference, and have some interesting experiences along the way. Here are my thoughts on the day, as well as a few of those experiences. :: It was
Imagine this scenario: It’s the first day of the fall semester, and you go to your algebra class. The teacher hands out a syllabus, and you notice there’s nothing about the grading scale. So you ask what the grading scale is, and the teacher says “Oh, we decide
Publisher’s Note: Forward Kentucky is proud to be a member of the Kentucky Press Association, so we thought this was an important story to share. David Thompson is a lucky man. The 72-year-old executive director of the Kentucky Press Association (KPA) says he has held two dream jobs. For
For some time, I’ve been collecting information related to the Braidy Industries deal. Topics of research have included the deal itself, Craig Bouchard, Matt Bevin, Oleg Deripaska, Rusal, Mitch McConnell, and so on. The recent stories by Time and the Washington Post covered much of the ground, and provided
A reformist party has a good shot at wresting the White House from the president of a reactionary party. The reformist party has moderate and progressive wings. Both groups share the same goal, but they disagree on how best to achieve it. Though a minority in the party, the progressives
This is excellent. Ida Auken, a member of Denmark’s centre-left Social Liberal (Radikale Venstre) party and former environment minister, took to Twitter to disabuse President Trump of his misconceptions about wind energy – and threw some shade in the process: Mr President – Greenland is not for sale. But Denmark has
I realize it’s not often that writers admit that they’re wrong; however, I’m just going to say it: I was wrong. On June 9, Forward Kentucky published a commentary of mine, “He’s called ‘President Dunce’ for a reason,” in which I explained how much of what
Editor’s note: We came across this story of a charter school situation in California, and thought it would be instructive to show what CAN happen with for-profit charter schools. (Doesn’t have to, but certainly can.) We are cross-posting it with permission from the original publication, Voice of San
It takes a lot to shock or surprise veteran reporter and history professor Berry Craig. But the Graves County Democrats pulled it off. At their annual pre-Fancy-Farm breakfast, the group named Berry Craig their Democrat of the Year for 2019. To say he was surprised is an understatement. “Gobsmacked” is
In 2016, Jeff Yass, the billionaire founder of a Pennsylvania global trading company donated $100,000 to a political action committee called Kentuckians for Strong Leadership. The PAC, according to its website, is dedicated to preserving the political fortunes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and in 2016, ensuring Republican
Kelly Craft, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, pledged Wednesday to be an “advocate for all countries to do their part in addressing climate change” – a stance at odds with the White House and Trump, who has questioned a human role. Craft, who
June 19 marks Juneteenth, a celebration of the de facto end of slavery in the United States. For hundreds of thousands of African-Americans stuck in pretrial detention – accused but not convicted of a crime, and unable to leave because of bail – that promise remains unfulfilled. And coming immediately after Father’
The verbal and legal back-and-forth between Governor Bevin and Attorney General Beshear has continued the past few months over a type of health insurance program known as Association Heath Plans (AHPs). AHPs were brought back into the healthcare policy debate following an executive order signed by President Trump in October
Education Czar Wayne Lewis decided to beat his reliable dead horse at Wednesday’s Kentucky Board of Education meeting: merit pay for teachers. Shouldn’t teachers whose students do better on high-stakes testing earn more money? “There is no incentive right now to be a great teacher,” Lewis told the
The Rev. Franklin Graham, Trump’s archbishop of bigotry, says Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg should repent of his “sin.” “Mayor Buttigieg says he’s a gay Christian,” Graham tweeted to his fans. “As a Christian I believe the Bible which defines homosexuality as sin, something to be repentant of,
