Auditions on the national and Kentucky stages
Many pols are already looking ahead to races in ‘26, ‘27, and ‘28
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Kentucky nears ‘crisis point’ as early education funding lags
Quality and access aren’t bad – but the money just isn’t there
A look into the GOP platform: Part Two
Chuck Witt continues digging into what the GOP leadership says they want to accomplish
‘Confidential’: Hiding the cost of legislation from Kentuckians
Unlike most states, Kentucky does not require filed or advancing bills to be accompanied by a financial analysis. Sometimes lawmakers ask for them, and sometimes they are “confidential.”
Immigrants and crime: Some facts to ponder
Actual facts, by the way, and not the xenophobic rhetoric coming from Trump.
How authoritarians Like Trump, Orbán, & Putin take down a free press
Trump is right now following a road blazed before him by multiple authoritarians and dictators who took over democracies in recent years…
Rhetoric versus reality: Addressing common misconceptions about abortion
There’s a great deal of misinformation and myths about abortion. Here, a national reporter deals with eight of these misconceptions.
‘Between rock, hard place:’ Will anyone ever have standing to challenge Kentucky’s abortion ban?
LOUISVILLE — Lisa Sobel thinks any Kentuckian who has a uterus should have standing to challenge the state’s abortion ban. The Kentucky Supreme Court and, more recently, a judge in Louisville, disagree. Meanwhile, Sobel, one of three Jewish women challenging the ban on religious grounds, says she’s left in
A look into the GOP platform: Part One
Chuck Witt begins digging into what the GOP leadership says they want to accomplish
JD Vance’s selection as Trump’s running mate marks the end of Republican conservatism
Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and other avatars of American conservatism wouldn’t recognize it under Trump.
Beshear’s PAC has raised $493,000, but given little so far to help other candidates
PAC’s political strategist says the plan all along has been to spend most of the money in the fall, right before the election.
A political tempest in an open-records teapot
But in the end, it’s abused children that are being harmed
Project 2025’s plan to gut Medicare and Medicaid
Conservatives are planning to slash the health care plans that millions of low-income and senior Americans rely on.
GOP attacks against Kamala Harris were already bad – they are about to get worse
But it seems that Harris can give as good as she gets.
Would Beshear have to resign if he’s picked as the VP candidate?
SOS Michael Adams answers the question.
School vouchers were supposed to save taxpayer money. Instead they blew a massive hole in Arizona’s budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.
