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,…
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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…
Trey Grayson: This is no joke; we must restore civility to public discourse, so anger and violence have to go
A few days ago, Republican candidate for Secretary of State Carl Nett sent an ill-advised tweet – in which he…
Bill Straub: ‘St. Matt the Divine’s’ jokes about Trump and global warming no laughing matter
WASHINGTON – St. Matt the Divine dropped his parson’s collar a few days back to engage in the one thing…
Bill Straub: We have to hope ‘arc of moral universe’ bends toward justice, despite Trump nominees
WASHINGTON – It may be hard to believe in this age of hyper-partisanship but President Trump has somehow managed to…
Bill Straub: ‘The hour of reckoning is coming,’ and it should, for the imposter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Steve Schmidt, the Republican strategist who grew up a stone’s throw from my New Jersey hometown and has broken with…
Mitch McConnell: Why fighting opioid epidemic is necessary, and why we must fight back
The pain of the opioid epidemic continues to ravage communities across the country – especially here in Kentucky. For years,…
McConnell visit to the Florence Rotary includes discussion about tax reform, health care and tweeting
By Mark Hansel NKyTribune managing editor Health care, tax reform and President Trump’s tweets were among the topics U.S. Senate…