Teri Carter: Unfortunately and sadly, this is how we live — and we call it living?
About the same time a person opened fire inside The Covenant School, a Christian elementary and preschool in Nashville, Tennessee, killing three nine-year-old children and three adults, I was sitting at a stoplight behind a blue Chevy truck with a bumper sticker that read, “No airbags. We die like real men.”
That’s a new one. Mostly what I see around these parts are Trump 2024, Three Percenter...
Letter to Editor: To Governor, legislators, citizens re Senate Bill 150 from League of Women Voters
An Open Letter to Governor Beshear, Kentucky’s Legislators, and Citizens of the Commonwealth:
On behalf of the League of Women Voters of Northern Kentucky, I thank the bi-partisan group of 22 Representatives and seven Senators who voted against Senate Bill 150 on March 16th.
The League also thanks Governor Beshear for vetoing this bill on March 24th.
However, the task is not finished...
Constance Alexander: NOW offers progressive candidates tips to navigate conservative districts
Marcus Flowers decided to run against Georgia incumbent Marjorie Taylor Greene because of January 6, 2021.
“Accountability was at the core of my decision,” he said. “I felt we had to push against extremism. The citadel of our democracy was attacked.”
A Montanan, Penny Ronning was convinced to run against Republican Matt Rosendale when she attended the impeachment trial of former President Donald...
Term limits on members of Congress? University of Maryland study shows five-in-six Americans in favor
An in-depth study conducted by the University of Maryland finds that five-in-six Americans favor a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on Members of Congress.
While there has not been a vote on term limits in Congress since 1995, the issue was given new life during this year’s speakership negotiations when Speaker McCarthy guaranteed a vote on congressional term limits.
The public consultation...
Joe Heller: A cartoonist’s view of news of the week — TikTok, Spring break, potholes, Trump indictment
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in July 2013. He still draws several cartoons a week and distributes them through his own syndicate. Through Heller Syndication, his cartoons regularly appear in more than 400 newspapers, making him the most successful...
Kimberly Kennedy: Still time to weigh in on trans-gender rights after Governor’s veto of HB 150; contact your legislators
If you listen to right-wing talk radio even for a few minutes, you will hear plenty of flag-waving, Constitution pounding, nationalistic rhetoric, all designed to make you think they are the true freedom-loving Americans. But if there’s one thing this past year has taught us, it’s that this couldn’t be further from the truth. From restrictions on voting access to women’s reproductive care,...
Bill Straub: What the Kentucky legislature lacked was a heart and soul and a ‘true champion of the people’
Paul Mason was one of the more conscientious members of the Kentucky General Assembly back in the 1980s and ‘90s. A Democratic representative from Whitesburg, he was lauded in a House resolution following his untimely death in 1998 as “a true champion of the people,” a man who served as “a powerful voice for the sick, poor, and needy.”
At one, sad juncture in his legislative career,...
Al Cross: Legislature overdoes it in trying to trip up Beshear
For a few minutes on the ides of March, it seemed the legislature was really legislating.
Faced with a transgender-youth bill that ignored medical advice, the state Senate did a rare thing in this era of tight partisan control: It voted on a substantive floor amendment, and wonder of wonders, narrowly passed it.
The amendment to House Bill 470 from Sen. Danny Carroll, R-Benton, made “a bad bill better,”...
Jamie Ruehl: It’s springtime in Kentucky — and time to see through the messge of the Beshear show
This past week it felt like we turned a page. At my house we opened the windows to get a comfortable and cleansing cross-breeze. The sun is noticeably rising earlier in the morning, and our landscape is getting greener. I even saw a bat flitting through the evening sky at dusk while our kids played with neighborhood friends. My early-morning routine includes a 3-5 mile run. The amount of people I see...
Constance Alexander: Celebrating the shining light ensures governmental transparency
In her early eighties, Mother stopped paying attention to the national media in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area where she had lived all her life. Instead, she looked forward to her daily dose of the Murray Ledger and Times, a Christmas gift from me, her Kentucky daughter.
When we talked on the phone each week, it was clear that Mother kept up with Calloway County news. She frequently asked...
Jason Glass: KDE will continue to support LGBTQIA+ young people despite legislature’s approval of SB150
Last week, the Kentucky General Assembly rushed to pass Senate Bill 150, a sweeping and harmful piece of anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation.
Kentucky has real educational challenges that need the legislature’s attention. These include meaningful solutions to our educator and staff shortages, support to continue our academic recovery from the pandemic, funding stabilization due to ongoing health-related absences...
Joe Heller: A cartoonist’s look at news of the week — brackets, banks, forever chemicals, Aaron Rogers
Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in July 2013. He still draws several cartoons a week and distributes them through his own syndicate. Through Heller Syndication, his cartoons regularly appear in more than 400 newspapers, making him...
Brian Weisker: Celebrating the utility workers who keep our safe, reliable natural gas service flowing
Today is Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day. On this day, energy companies encourage communities across the nation to recognize the hard work and accomplishments of the utility workers who keep safe, reliable natural gas service flowing to millions of homes and businesses.
Brian Weisker
The pride these workers take in doing their jobs in the safest, most professional manner possible cannot be understated....
Bill Straub: Just one joke after another defines Rep. Jamie Comer as he relishes his time in the limelight
Okay. . .this is a joke, right?
The good people of the First Congressional District in West Kentucky, which now stretches all the way to Frankfort in what can only be described as the most absurd instance of gerrymandering in the Commonwealth’s long history, sure are pulling a fast one on the rest of the nation. They must be getting a huge belly laugh from the shenanigans of their boy, Rep. Jamie...
Tanner Mobley: Dear Kentucky lawmakers, please fix real issues, stop senseless attacks on LGBTQ youth
Kentuckians are struggling to get by. Many of us are living paycheck to paycheck, some are having to ration insulin, and others are trying to climb their way out of mountains of medical or student loan debt. Our public schools across the state are severely understaffed and underfunded; some entire counties don’t have access to clean drinking water. And just this year, Kentucky was named the “worst...
