Looking for tips on healthier snacks — Washington Post publishes nutrition labels for you
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If you have been wondering what the healthiest snacks are, Anahad O’Connor with The…
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COVID cases and positive-test rate rise in Kentucky; deaths and hospital numbers decline
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Daily cases and the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus are rising…
Most Americans say they have had coronavirus; but concerns about serious COVID-19 illness decline
Kentucky Health News Most Americans say they have contracted the coronavirus, and the infected are more likely to be Republicans,…
Child tax credit payments to begin Thursday; reducing child poverty with direct payments
On Thursday, July 15, the first payments for the newly expanded child tax credit will go out to some 39…
Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell has been called out, however gently; the permanent stain is failure
Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell has spent 36 long years in the nation’s capital splitting asunder a once great…
Sandmann lawyers agree to settlement in defamation lawsuit against CNN, terms not disclosed
By Mark Hansel NKyTribune managing editor Parties for both sides in the lawsuit involving Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann and…
KY town with moxie, history of slavery dedicated statue of native, a pioneering black woman journalist
By Al Cross University of Kentucky In a little park amid the main intersection in downtown Russellville, Kentucky, stands a…
The Week’s Roundup ICYM: CovCath student sues Wash Post; bills on nonprofit sales tax, KERS
Nicholas Sandmann through his parents Ted Sandmann and Julie Sandmann are suing The Washington Post Company for $250 million for…
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…
Bill Straub: Opining on greatest of journalism as it once was (or wasn’t), why it’s better than alternative
The late Jimmy Breslin, the greatest columnist in the history of the world (and my personal journalistic hero), was renowned…
Life expectancy varies widely across U.S. but is much lower in eight counties in Kentucky
Life expectancy varies widely among U.S. counties, and has been decreasing in a few of them, says a study by researchers…
The Rural Blog: Painkillers make the pain go away, and that’s why the opioid epidemic persists
One of the biggest barriers to beating the nation’s opioid epidemic, which is disproportionately rural, could be that the painkillers…