
Commentary: The wrong way to do ‘medical marijuana’; don’t trade one drug crisis for another
By Richard Nelson and Garth Van Meter Marijuana as medicine is moving in the Kentucky legislature but before we jump…
By Richard Nelson and Garth Van Meter Marijuana as medicine is moving in the Kentucky legislature but before we jump…
Last week, the New York Times reported on a Kentucky Senate bill banning conversion therapy, a controversial technique whose extreme…
Elections are kind of like a new school year. New faces show up. Fresh ideas are disseminated. Personalities emerge. Elections often teach…
Just a few days ago I was in Washington D.C. where I visited the National Archives and saw the Declaration…
Kentucky’s primary election is Tuesday and if voter participation in 2015 is any indication, the turnout will be in the…
The Commonwealth Policy Center is honoring State Rep. Joe Fischer with its Friend of Life Award for sponsoring HB 148…
BBC Science Correspondent Jonathan Amos recently asked, “What chance has NASA of finding life on Mars?” He’s referring to the Mars…
More often than not there are enterprises within our communities that we know nothing about. But when little-known organizations have…
Our trust in the established news media continues to decline. A major culprit? “Fake news.” According to a Monmouth University poll…
It was 242 years ago when America’s colonial leaders declared their independence from a tyrant who trampled their rights and…
We tend to compartmentalize our lives. Our heads ache, yet we don’t consider the small amount of sleep we’ve had…
The 2018 General Assembly was incredibly productive and even took positive steps to shore up the state pension system, but…
Thousands of students walked out of schools across Kentucky and around the United States on Wednesday. Some of the students walked…
If Hurricane Harvey’s record rainfall doused the fiery political climate, then the images of rescue workers saving children have softened…
President Trump’s tweet barring transgendered persons from serving in the military caught everyone off guard, including policy makers who are…
By Richard Nelson Special to NKyTribune The Executive Branch Ethics Commission (EBEC) recently cleared Gov. Bevin of any wrongdoing involving…
Kentuckians’ trust in institutional media may be at an all-time low. According to Secretary of State Alison Grime’s Kentucky Civic…
Have you ever gone to an event expecting one thing only to find out that it was something entirely different?…
By Richard Nelson Special to NKyTribune It’s been a week of marches and protests and major policy shifts, but in…
An interesting thing happened in Frankfort a few days ago. For the first time in the history of the legislature,…
Political commentators and celebrities are bidding good riddance to 2016 largely because of the ideological divide and politics that separates…
Halloween is past and scarier than any goblin at your doorstep is a bitter political season filled with high pitched…