Thomas Massie, Ed Gallrein and more candidates make final pleas to KY voters ahead of primary
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, whose tight race against a Trump-endorsed candidate has become one of…
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Opinion – Bill Straub: Republicans fall in line as ‘epic’ blunders abound in Trump’s conquest of Iran
Oh, what a splendid, little war. The United States, having little better to do with its time, money and energy,…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr’s attacks on civil rights advocates proves an ugly way to win a nomination
WASHINGTON – Following an appearance before the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police in Bowling Green on March 21, Rep. Andy…
Al Cross: Will MAGA label work for Nate Morris in bid for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat?
FANCY FARM, Ky. – Just how MAGA is Kentucky? More pertinently, how MAGA are Kentucky Republicans? And most proximately, how…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Bucking climate data, Barr joins Trump, Zeldin touting debunked benefits of coal
It appears there is no disaster seeping from the addled mind of President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump that our boy Andy…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr’s embrace of birthright citizenship vendetta unveils newfound fealty to Trump
President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump’s self-appointed handmaiden, Rep. Andy Barr, being perennially sensitive to the whims of his master, has officially…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will do anything but ‘Make America Great Again’
Rep. Andy Barr has, predictably, gone all Sponge Bob Square Pants happy, happy joy, joy over House passage of the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr is wrong about Imane Khelif, Olympic boxer; diversity makes us better
In his never-ending, toadyrific endeavor to ingratiate himself to his Ming the Merciless-like master, King Donald of Mar-a-Lago, Rep. Andy…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr ready to release vitriolic smears to serve his political ambitions
Rep. Andy Barr, promoting himself these days as a Christian David Ben-Gurion, has wasted little time playing the antisemite card…
Commentary: Bill Straub: Andy Barr enthusiastically endorses Trump; question is, what’s he up to?
On May 9 of this year, a New York jury held the once and possibly future president of the United…
Bill Straub: Rep. Andy Barr is just looking for the right ‘threats’ to give himself looney creds
Like Chicken Little, Rep. Andy Barr thinks the sky is falling and he knows exactly who to blame for the…
Bill Straub: A Chinese spy balloon wasn’t the only thing full of hot air to get shot down this week
That wasn’t the Sword of Damocles that went bob-bob-bobbin’ over the nation’s breadbasket last week. It was a ChiCom spy…
Al Cross: This isn’t prime time for the ‘Entertainment Wing’ of the GOP
The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce’s annual public-affairs dinner is usually a chance for the governor and legislative leaders to have…
Bill Straub: As WKY suffers terrible tragedy, we’re reminded that we’re best when we come together
The challenge here is to appropriately praise the efforts of everyone involved in the revival of large fractions of God’s…
Bill Straub: Flip-flopper that Mitch McConnell is, he is not stupid; there is a long-term strategy at work
It isn’t news that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is changing horses in midstream – he historically flip-flops whenever he…
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…
Bill Straub: Disaster debate another example of how Kentucky lawmakers in D.C. have lost their way
WASHINGTON – Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root ‘n Branch’’ McConnell took some time off last week to – quite appropriately…
Bill Straub: McConnell learns the hard way that depriving 22 million of health care not the best idea
Listen closely and you might hear the slightly edited and decidedly un-dulcet tones of the late Howard Cosell bellowing in…
Valvoline hosting dedication of its new $35 million world headquarters in Lexington Thursday
Valvoline Inc. will host a dedication of its new $35 million, 162,400-square-foot world headquarters at 11 a.m. May 11 in…