Articles commenting on current events, issues, and persons from a progressive viewpoint.
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.
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.
Even an ‘ideological’ friend of coal opposes propping up the industry at ratepayers’ expense. Will the House listen?
“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.”
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.
Over 125 bills being rammed through by breaking the rules – and THIS Repub legislature wants to talk about CIVICS?!?
Timothy Snyder points out the results if you succeed in electing a strongman. And they’re not pretty.
The most significant of bills sometimes get the least attention. This was one of those times.
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.
Our state needs substantial criminal justice reform, not more regressive policies. Kentucky cannot afford this costly mistake.
Too many Christians are intent on being religious and ignoring Christ – including some legislators.
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
We need to reject this outside interference by right-wing extremist groups, and keep our focus on legislation designed by and for the people we in the General Assembly are elected to serve.
McConnell’s taking care of his business, but not the country’s business.
As always, watch what they do, not what they say.
