Kentucky GOP Senate candidates vie for spotlight with well-placed zingers at Fancy Farm
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern FANCY FARM, Ky. — The top three Republican candidates hoping to represent Kentucky in the…
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KY Republican Headquarters building fund tops $3.2 million, most from corporations with lobbying interests
By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern The Republican Party of Kentucky Building Fund raised another $314,750 in the past three months…
Opinion – Bill Straub: GOP’s foreign aid and border debacles lay bare polarity between Paul, McConnell
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul, who has proved over the years to be as useless as a fishnet handkerchief, has…
GOP Presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie submit candidacy papers in Kentucky
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today The Kentucky Secretary of State’s office, like most state government agencies, are closed Friday and…
OP-Ed – Bill Straub: House advances impeachment as Comer’s own questionable dealings come to light
If Diogenes the Cynic, lamp in hand, enters the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives today looking for an…
Bill Straub: Massie’s messy rise to GOP mainstream leaves questions about his role in party’s future
Rep. Thomas Massie, the renowned Kentucky Whiz Kid, is proving that the mountain can, indeed, come to Muhammed. It wasn’t…
Bill Straub: From calamity to farce, House speaker election highlights a GOP circus lead by the clowns
Isn’t it bliss? Don’t you approve? One who keeps tearing around One who can’t move Where are the clowns? Send…
As General Assembly prepares to convene for 2023 session GOP names House committee chairs
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today As the General Assembly prepares to convene the 2023 Regular Session on Jan. 3, House…
Terry Brooks: 2022 legislative session leaves many questions, contradictions and ambiguities in its wake
In a press conference before the historic launch of Apollo 11 to the moon, Neil Armstrong was asked about the…
Bill Straub: If you wonder what’s up, it’s that Mitch McConnell, GOP are ready to ‘Defend White People’
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is notorious for playing things close to the vest. This is the man who, after…
Al Cross: Coronavirus politics are tough and will get tougher
We figured the ides of April would be the first crucible of Andy Beshear’s governorship, with a Republican legislature rendering…
Bill Straub: Something isn’t exactly clear; layers of wrongdoing were peeled back, facts didn’t matter
When Stephen Stills penned the lyrics to “For What It’s Worth,’’ declaring, “There’s something happening here but what it is…
Bill Straub: Which side are you on? Who you going to believe? Sounds like the start of a sad song
There’s an old labor song emanating out of the Harlan County Wars of the 1930s, popularized by the great Pete…