Opinion – Carolyn Hankins Wolfe: Kentucky’s future starts at age four, calling for Pre-K for All
Governor Andy Beshear has announced the launch of Pre-K for ALL, a bold and overdue initiative to give every 4-year-old…
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Opinion – Col Owens: Let’s have an honest dialogue about Medicaid
There is much talk these days about Medicaid. Its importance, its cost, its controversy. The dramatic cuts in Medicaid included…
Opinion – Joe Bringardner: AmeriCorps, national service provide common ground for Kentucky
In a time when division dominates the headlines, national service offers rare common ground. Across Kentucky, AmeriCorps members are showing…
Opinion – Judy Harris: Ode to teachers as school year comes to a close
“Those who know do. Those who understand teach.” Aristotle Another school year is in the books. And teachers as well…
Joe Heller: Cartoonist’s views on TACO Trade, RFK’s brain worm, the penny, vacation time
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid…
Opinion – Ben Mudd: Kentucky making strides in opioid fight, but more critical steps remain
Hopefully, you saw the recent good news that drug overdose deaths in Kentucky dropped by 30.2% last year — the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will do anything but ‘Make America Great Again’
Rep. Andy Barr has, predictably, gone all Sponge Bob Square Pants happy, happy joy, joy over House passage of the…
Opinion – Judy Harris: Cuisenaire rods leading discovery, transforming math learning and teacher too
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” — Albert Einstein The Space Race between the USSR…
Joe Heller: A cartoonist’s view of news — Memorial Day, Joe’s cancer, tariffs, schools out, budget bill
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Amid cuts to FEMA, it remains to be seen if Trump will walk his talk on disaster aid
Kentucky, destined by its geographic positioning and global climate change — a verboten subject owing to the Commonwealth’s unyielding devotion…
Opinion – Melissa McDonald: One in five KY kids face hunger, Congress should not make that worse
In Kentucky more than 753,000 residents, or one-in-six, face hunger. They often don’t know where and when their next meal…
Opinion – Col Owens: St. Francis had it right, it is indeed through giving that we truly receive
I graduated from Dixie Heights High School in 1965. Yes, for the astute reader, that’s a very long time ago….
Opinion — Bluegrass Wildlife: Public land belongs to all of us… and it’s not for sale
By Howard Whiteman Murray State University Over four decades ago, a young spike buck ran by my stand and stopped…
Opinion – Judy Harris: Peru, Pope Leo, and the orphans of war — hoping for no more war
“Peace is not a product that is bought; it is built day by day with justice, forgiveness, and love.” –…
Joe Heller: Cartoonist on Memorial Day, Pope Leo, graduation, Quatar474, hot ones
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid…
Opinion – Bill Straub: New book explores Biden’s decline, suggesting a look in the mirror
The legendary Jerry Garcia, founder and lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead, had a side project during his tenure with…
Opinion – Mark Maynard: For Reds great Pete Rose, baseball was life, but gambling trumped it
For the next several days, or until the news cycle turns our collective heads, the question of whether Pete Rose…
Opinion – Col Owens: The time to act is now — be heard, make views known, protect America’s ideals
It is difficult enough to swim in normal waters, without current or tide coming toward you. It is almost impossible…
Opinion – Judy Harris: Softball and Mothers at Lemker Field 1955 — mothers always on your side
“The nicest thing about teamwork is you always have others on your side.” Margaret Carty A high school junior and…
Joe Heller: Cartoonist on news – Pope Francis, Mother’s Day, Pope Trump, VE Day, Pope Leo, Earth Day
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid…
Opinion – Jacob Ogan: Trump’s Executive Orders, House Bill 4 force shift in Kentucky’s DEI landscape
Schools across Kentucky are adapting to President Trump’s Executive Order on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Of the Commonwealth’s…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Like a lemming to the sea, Andy Barr blindly follows Trump off trade war cliff
Plummeting cargo shipments, empty ports, declining trucking volumes, major retailers warning about empty shelves. All that and much more is…