Bill Straub: Just one joke after another defines Rep. Jamie Comer as he relishes his time in the limelight
Okay. . .this is a joke, right? The good people of the First Congressional District in West Kentucky, which now…
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Tanner Mobley: Dear Kentucky lawmakers, please fix real issues, stop senseless attacks on LGBTQ youth
Kentuckians are struggling to get by. Many of us are living paycheck to paycheck, some are having to ration insulin,…
Emma Curtis: State legislature’s cruel war on gender-affirming care only serve to hurt more Kyians
I am a 26-year-old woman and a lifelong resident of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. I have attended private, religious, and…
Constance Alexander: Chautauqua lecture series visit with midwife founder is multi-course affair
In the usual no-nonsense uniform she describes as “indestructible,” Mary Carson Breckinridge welcomes us to dinner at Wendover, her rustic…
Amye Bensenhaver: No celebrating Sunshine Week this year; there’s nothing to do but keep fighting
I will not celebrate Sunshine Week 2023. Since leaving the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office in 2016, I have pursued open…
Joe Heller: A cartoonist’s look at news of the week — Sunshine, Daylight Savings, Biden budget, travel?
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in…
Ken Rechtin: A permit to polute, really? EPA needs to hold Newport company accountable for air pollution
Located in Newport, River Metals Recycling (RMR), a subsidiary of Nucor (NUE, NYSE), annually obtains a “pollution permit.” It is…
Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell is no prize as party leader but what can we expect in his successor?
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the earth mother of the new, mean-spirited Republican Party, was attending some sort of right-wing confab…
Al Cross: No-compromise culture war has ruined our politics
When the Kentucky House voted to ban gender-affirming medical treatment for Kentucky minors, even if their parents want them to…
Jamie Ruehl: On abortion, an acrimonious topic indeed, agree that life is a right
Why is the issue of abortion such an acrimonious topic? On one side of the issue you see people arguing…
Constance Alexander: Celebrating Women’s History Month with Hamlet: Nice girls come in last
As an exchange student at the University of Copenhagen, I spent orientation week with other American kids residing at the…
Richard Nelson: ‘Do No Harm Act’ protects Kentucky’s children from life-altering decisions
The Do No Harm Act (HB 470) passed the Kentucky state House amid raucous opposition last week. Opponents positioned the…
Joe Heller: Cartoonist’s take on news of week — Dilbert, cookie time, Fox News, Pink Floyd
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in…
Kyle Keeney: House Bill 180 brings new hope to Kyians by expanding access to biomarker testing
Technology is reshaping medicine in ways that were almost unimaginable a few short years ago. Now, medical innovation is bringing…
Bill Straub: Jamie Comer is on a misguided, multifaceted roll indeed — and he’s in over his head
From his ham-handed mangling of congressional probes that makes Inspector Clouseau look like Sherlock Holmes, to his stupefying lack of…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Basketball postseason and baseball, softball preseasons cross over here
Thursday is the day for NKU. Both NKU basketball teams will be in action Thursday evening in the Horizon League…
Teri Carter: What’s so dangerous about books? What about all the kids who die from firearms?
When Grandpa Pete died in November 2011, I was in a car full of family members as we drove from…
Constance Alexander: Celebrating the life and work of 20th-century artist and Mayfield native Ellis Wilson
Famed twentieth Century African American artist, Ellis Wilson, claimed to be glad to have grown up in Mayfield “as long…
Brittany Harris: Kentucky’s broken juvenile justice system has proudly negative impact on our kids
When I think about my incarceration as a teenager, my heart breaks for any child that has to go through…
Joe Heller: A cartoonist’s view of the week’s news — toxic rail cars, Ukraine, Carter, winter weather
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in…
Daniel Brunner: The health disparity of heart disease among Black Kyians should be a priority all year long
In February, we commemorate both American Heart Month and Black History Month, which presents an opportunity for us to raise…
Bill Straub: As ’24 Republican race for president heats up, is Rand Paul a vice presidential choice?
Sen. Rand Paul ran an infamously inept campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 when he was under the…