Bill Straub: Deja vu all over again — gun massacres, promise of controls, then nothing; repeat rapid fire
All right, let’s break this one down to its component parts. On the morning of Aug. 3, a gunman, 21-year-old…
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Bill Straub: Bevin didn’t get a landslide, but don’t count him out; Beshear faces uphill battle
Landslide Matt Bevin, the incumbent, didn’t exactly set the world on fire in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary, garnering just 52…
Al Cross: Welcome, Derby visitors to Kentucky; here’s a brief introduction to our political landscape
Welcome, Derby visitors! This column continues our longstanding tradition of giving folks who are in Kentucky for the big race,…
Mike Farrell: With so many things off track, including #MeToo, the question is — what’s our character?
The #Me Too train has run off the tracks. Please don’t misunderstand me. I have always believed in the equality…
U.S. Sen. McConnell and Commissioner Quarles host USDA officials at Kentucky hemp forum in Louisville
By Mark Maynard Kentucky Today Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said hemp has a long and proud history in…
Bill Straub: Worth it or not, the time is coming for decisions to be made and it has to be right
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created a bit of a stir in political circles this week when she told The Washington…
Bill Straub: Character is indispensable, character matters, character first; did someone say ‘character’?
Apparently a person’s character doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in Sen. Rand Paul’s world. The Bowling Green Republican,…
As the government shutdown drags on, workers at the IRS Center in Covington struggle to stay afloat
By Mark Hansel NKyTribune managing editor In our nation’s capital, the government shutdown is about ideological differences over immigration, border…
Bill Straub: For want of a wall, for a temper tantrum, for dodging responsibility — is government lost?
For want of a wall, the government was lost, at least partially, and it doesn’t look like the darn thing…
Bill Straub: A new word to enhance your vocabulary; to describe ‘beyond shameless,’ try ‘mitchful’
Occasionally when following American politics you come upon a statement or claim that is so outrageous, so mind-boggling that characterizing…
Bill Straub: Reagan once said ‘there is no room for intolerance,’ but Trump didn’t get the message
WASHINGTON – I can’t say with absolute certainty that the filth that gushes from the mouth of President “Tiny’’ Trump-like…
Bill Straub: McConnell breaking through bottom of barrel, blaming ‘entitlements’ for growth of deficit
WASHINGTON – Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell is no longer scraping the bottom of the political barrel. No, it…
Bill Straub: Trump lies because he can but with the numbers stacking up, few seem to care
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday of this week USA Today, which fancies itself a newspaper, published an op-ed piece from the…
Trump, Biden coming to Kentucky for candidates Barr. McGrath in hotly contested congressional race
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Kentucky’s heated Sixth District Congressional race, which has already been receiving some national attention, will…
Congress sends President Trump bipartisian bill to fight the opioid epidemic; he says he will sign it
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News By a 98-1 vote Wednesday, the Senate passed the final version of a comprehensive…
Bill Straub: Humpty-Trumpty bullies way through NATO, insults May on home turf, loves Putin more. . .
President Trump’s (OMG!) recently concluded European excursion was, by all estimates, a disaster, not to mention a public humiliation that…
NKy’s Amul Thapar on Trump’s short list for U.S. Supreme Court nomination, supported by McConnell
Staff report The Washington Post and other national news outlets are reporting that Northern Kentucky’s Amul R. Thapar is on…
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…
Bill Straub: Following Tuesday’s primary election, the Republican Party now the party of Trump
WASHINGTON – There can no longer be any doubt that the Republican Party, once known as the party of Lincoln…
Bill Straub: It’s Trump, Trump and more Trump in KY, where he is in pretty high cotton no matter what
Whither President Donald J. Trump? Well into his second year in office, Trump continues to divide the nation in a…
Commentary: Tim Ortman: Goal of real fake news is to create distraction, disrupt election process
Today, the term ‘Fake News’ is firmly entrenched in our lexicon. It seems everyone from Trumpite retirees, to neo-political millennials,…
Jamie’s Bookshelf: Eleven recently published nonfiction selections for your spring reading list
By Jamie H. Vaught Special to the NKyTribune This is the first of a two-part series about recently published nonfiction…