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by | Aug 16, 2020

An old scrapbook shows faded pictures of my dad’s family back in Bell County, Kentucky. The “hollers.” They were well…

by | Aug 2, 2020

My dad’s folks came from the hollers of Southeast Kentucky — but my three brothers and I were raised in…

by | Apr 29, 2020

To his credit, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is slowly beginning to ease restrictions on the state’s economy. Perhaps the realities…

by | Apr 20, 2020

The opposition finally showed up last Wednesday in Frankfort, Kentucky. For weeks, the government’s shutdown response has been numbingly predictable….

by | Apr 12, 2020

Americans have always placed a high value on privacy, though the constitution doesn’t explicitly grant it. The 1890 landmark work…

by | Jul 17, 2019

Amy McGrath announced last Tuesday that she is running to become the next U.S. Senator of Kentucky. As a Democrat,…

by | Feb 25, 2019

Terry Pierce was shocked this month when he found a man pointing a pistol in his face. “All this over…

by | Aug 20, 2018

Gov. Matt Bevin told a conference of local government officials last week they’ll be “screwed” in the pocketbooks if the…

by | May 27, 2016

We reported a while back on the growing “achievement gap” between black and white students in Kentucky, which was the…

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