Al Cross asks: Is the Lege serving our common-wealth?
Did the General Assembly use its resources to make a difference in the lives of everyday Kentuckians?
Commentary
Articles commenting on current events, issues, and persons from a progressive viewpoint.
Notice anything in common about the books the Right wants to ban?
Beau of the Fifth Column certainly has. And he lays it out.
Let us savor the victory for open records – then prepare for the next fight
All who fought to protect our open records laws should celebrate our shared victory. But then, we should work together to get ready for the next attack.
Q: How much would Trump’s mass deportation order cost?
The Know-Nothings have returned with their goal of Make America White Again – except this time, the cost is going to be in the billions.
Veto of mass incarceration bill gives Kentucky supermajority a shot at redemption
White grievance, white supremacy animated this session of the General Assembly
Taking stock one year after a bank staff meeting was turned into a bloodbath
The Safer Kentucky Act was just an act. The goal was never to make you safer. The goal was simply to keep themselves in power so they can come back and do nothing again next year.
On casting a ‘protest vote’ for RFK Jr.
So you’re thinking of voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr as a way to say “I don’t like either one”? Read on.
Governor Beshear – Please read this
HB 509 is STILL a threat to transparency. Gov. Beshear, don’t defend it – VETO it.
Christian pastor: In a Christian nationalist America women should lose the right to vote
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them” ― Aldous Huxley
Hey Repubs – you okay with this?
Hey Comer, Guthrie, Massie, Barr, Rogers. Hey Repubs in the KY House and Senate. Hey RPK. Simple question: You okay with this?
A rant about HB 509, open records, and legislators’ ignorance
Lawmakers who know so little about the requirements of the open records law, much less it’s necessity and value — or who are willing to justify needless and destructive revision of the law with false claims and misrepresentations — cannot be entrusted with the future of the law.
Outside billionaires are pushing charter schools for KY – will we let them win?
They got their constitutional amendment on the ballot, so they won the first round. Will we let them win in November?
Oh looky – Comer’s using his “investigation” to get a book deal
I’ve already placed my pre-publication order.
Republicans on the Bridge: Who are these people?
A cargo ship without power to stop hits a bridge and knocks it down. And who do Republicans blame? I mean, really – are you kidding?
Mitch McConnell’s legacy: promoting himself, not Kentucky
Some have labeled McConnell a “leader.” A true leader has qualities that obviously don’t reside with the Senator. In fact, he could be more accurately described as “a wind sock,” someone who moves with whichever way the wind is blowing when those gusts work to his own advantage.
Did we dodge the HB 509 bullet?
Has the latest attack on open records died? Or will it rise from its grave in the last two days of the session?
