KY General Assembly continues to chip away at public’s right to know. What are they hiding?
This year’s multiple attacks on government transparency continues a disturbing trend.
Commentary
Articles commenting on current events, issues, and persons from a progressive viewpoint.
Civics Education Bill — something good from the KY Legislature?
Despite the plethora of outlandish, unnecessary, and generally stupid bills that emanate from the current Kentucky Legislature, it can, apparently, get something right.
Jamie Comer, alias Comer Pyle, has proved to be abject failure; no facts on his side
“The only information ever pushed on the Bidens and Ukraine has come from one source and one source only: Russia and Russian agents.”
Overbroad bill risks turning food plant workers, government inspectors, neighbors into criminals
See animal cruelty on the farm next door? If this bill passes, you will be a criminal if you video the cruelty. Tom Fitzgerald lays out the issues in SB 16.
Kentucky is about to pass the cruelest criminal-justice bill in America
The state is making it easier to kill homeless people on private property—and that’s just one part of one of the most draconian crime bills in recent history.
New bureaucracy would burden Kentuckians with higher power bills if Senate Bill 349 becomes law
Even an ‘ideological’ friend of coal opposes propping up the industry at ratepayers’ expense. Will the House listen?
Dictatorship: the framework is already in place
“The first Trump term was both deeply alarming and a comedy of errors. A second Trump administration will be far more alarming, with far fewer errors.”
By any other word these actions would still be the same — just call it racism
This is not your regular racism. There’s no nightriders, no dogs and hoses, no bombs going off in a church basement. This is the soft-core variety – influential White people lecturing Black folks on how it’s going down. Racism just the same.
So the Lege wants schools to teach civics – hahahaha!
Over 125 bills being rammed through by breaking the rules – and THIS Repub legislature wants to talk about CIVICS?!?
So you say you want a strongman?
Timothy Snyder points out the results if you succeed in electing a strongman. And they’re not pretty.
Nine minutes. To reverse nearly a half-century of open records law.
The most significant of bills sometimes get the least attention. This was one of those times.
A hard look at the new Republican Party and the threat it poses
Our nation faces an existential threat this fall – and that threat is coming from a political party that has been taken over by the former president.
Regressive, ‘lock them up’ House Bill 5 would be a costly mistake for Kentucky
Our state needs substantial criminal justice reform, not more regressive policies. Kentucky cannot afford this costly mistake.
“I’m sick of people being mean for Jesus”
Too many Christians are intent on being religious and ignoring Christ – including some legislators.
It’s Sunshine Week? Or ... is it?
Unhappily, this year’s Sunshine Week will once again be a period of grave concern about what we may lose, rather than a celebration of what we have won
