Commentary: During Crime Victims’ Rights Week, Kentuckians can celebrate progress
By Emily Bonistall Postel and Alex Otte When the pandemic brought everything to a screeching halt, it brought with it…
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Al Cross: Republican legislature grabs wheel from Democratic governor; voters will have a say in 2022
When Kentuckians elected Andy Beshear in 2019, they created a recipe for partisan conflict between a legislature with a recent,…
Bill Straub: Sing it to ‘Which Side Are You On’ and call it the ballad of Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul
The gossip sheets and the tabloids are constantly filled with reports about individuals who work closely together for years but…
Nicholas Brake: Pandemic relief and other federal government proposals will uplift children
One of the greatest moral stains from the last decade is how U.S. policymakers at the federal and state level…
Constance Alexander: Immerse yourself in poems this April in celebration of National Poetry Month
In Murray, poems are popping up like daffodils: free, wild, and suffused with hope after a winter that swallowed a…
Richard Nelson: Self-identified gender ideology meets Christianity in post-truth arena
CNN reporter Devan Cole created a stir last week when he said, “It’s not possible to know a person’s gender…
Billy Reed: All-Star Game moved from Atlanta but there’s surely a way to call attention to Georgia mess
By now just about everyone knows that Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, has ordered the All-Star Game…
Jim Waters: School choice will help Kentucky ‘step up’ its education game
Since COVID-19 arrived, measures to expand educational freedom and opportunity have been introduced in more than half the states in…
Ray Daniels: New legislation will help clean up Kentucky’s outdated criminal justice laws
For many years, criminal justice advocates have been pleading with the General Assembly to take stock of outdated laws and…
Bill Straub: The Theater of the Absurd as poor Mitch keeps getting understood perfectly for plain-speaking
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has spent so much time backing-and-filling over the past few days that he could have…
Constance Alexander: Smithsonian exhibition and civic engagement are cures for what ails us
Outside, the sun is bright. Tulips and daffodils bow and flutter in a gentle spring breeze. It would be a…
Eli Capilouto: We must deal with a complex set of questions that often are in tension with each other
President Eli Capilouto sent an email to the University of Kentucky community reiterating UK’s support of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts….
Billy Reed: On Easter Sunday, celebrate the sports celebrities who live their lives as true role models
It seems wrong, if not even irreverent, to write about something as relatively mundane as sports on Easter Sunday, the…
Jim Waters: Legislative session featured Override-O-Rama, with a final day Spendlooza
Before this year’s General Assembly, Frankfort GOP insiders joked that Secretary of State Michael Adams might end up signing more…
Al Cross: Rural Republican Stivers finds common ground on race with urban, Democrat senators
Just before the legislature adjourned Tuesday night, there was a remarkable scene on the dais of the Senate: fist bumps…
Bill Straub: Fortunate Kentucky has Secretary of State Michael Adams and progress on election reform
Kentucky is fortunate in these days of bitter partisanship to have Secretary of State Michael Adams. While states like Georgia,…
Constance Alexander: Spate of anti-Asian violence underscores need to support greater diversity
As if COVID-19 has not already caused enough upheaval, now — instead of celebrating the flowering of Japanese cornel dogwood…
Advancing Equity: The strategic importance of diversity, equity, inclusion; everyone needs safety
By Sharon Fusco CEO, Redwood NKY Part of a continuing series by NKY’s nonprofits who stand together against racism and…
Jim Waters: Tax-hiking zealots have a Plan B — sneaking legislative gimmick to raise gas tax
Since special-interest groups pressuring legislators to raise Kentuckians’ taxes wouldn’t dare take a credible poll to find out what the…
Bill Butler: Ralph Drees, a model for the present and future leadership of Northern Kentucky
Ralph Drees was, is, and will forever be a model for both the present and future Leadership of Northern Kentucky….
Tony Watts: House Bill 563 is bad for public education, bad for taxpayers; support Beshear’s veto
Anyone who cares about public education and how their tax dollars are spent in Kentucky should be alarmed by a…
Al Cross: Al Smith’s journalism was one of good faith, now often missing
Al Smith, my friend and mentor who died last weekend after a very full life, was known best as the…