Bill Straub: Hard to imagine a wackier contest with two candidates vying for who’s the biggest gun nut
Where else other than Kentucky can you witness a challenger in a congressional race toiling to out-crazy an incumbent who…
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Billy Reed: I first met Mitch when we were the hapless Giants of the Pony League; what happened to him?
My relationship with Mitch McConnell began, oddly enough, on the baseball field at the Naval Ordnance Plant in South Louisville….
Kentucky by Heart: Kentucky Senator Richard Mentor Johnson led an interesting and controversial life
By Steve Flairty NKyTribune Columnist I have been reading The US Senate and the Commonwealth (University Press of Kentucky, 2019),…
Sen. McConnell: Parents, elected officials must work together to protect our youth from nicotine addiction
The youth vaping crisis is putting the health of our children at risk. To address this rampant and dangerous new…
Bill Straub: No ‘Profiles in Courage’ found perusing political landscape in Trump-McConnell land
In February 1944, after seven years of guiding President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s agenda through the upper chamber, Senate Democratic Leader…
Sen McConnell: Many things to celebrate as Commonwealth of Kentucky turns 225 years old
On June 1, the Commonwealth of Kentucky will celebrate the 225th anniversary of its admittance as a state into the…
Old Time Kentucky: Doing what he loved, Alben Barkley drew his final breath firing up a crowd
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist The Robert E. Lee link lures tourists to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va….
Old Time Kentucky: Barkley’s rise to vice presidency began with a modest college janitorial experience
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist “Barkley Swept Here.” That’s what a small wooden sign bragged in Clinton, the Hickman County…