Our weekly newspaper — The Anderson News — is published on Thursdays.  On Friday, June 20, I stopped at the Lawrenceburg Kroger to grab a copy of the paper, but the stack of issues was dated June 12, the week prior. I recalled being at our Walmart a few weeks earlier, on a Monday, and […]

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell told his colleagues behind closed doors this week that “failure is not an option” when it comes to passing their bill to deeply cut health, nutrition and education programs to fund tax cuts skewed to the wealthy. “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid,” […]

President Donald Trump recently declared, “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country.” More recently, at a University of Alabama commencement, he proclaimed the graduates were “the first of the Golden Age of America,” suggesting they could become “the greatest generation” of Americans.  While his nostalgia is […]

The Republican primary for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat just got more crowded.  Nate Morris, a Lexington businessman who founded waste and recycling company Rubicon, announced his candidacy in a 20-minute interview on Donald Trump Jr.’s “Triggered” podcast Thursday evening.  “After careful reflection and prayer talking to my wife, Jane, I’ve decided to run for […]

The Democratic governors of two red states — Kentucky and Kansas — urged Republicans in Congress to scrap their massive budget bill, warning it would take health care and food away from needy Americans to give “tax handouts to the ultra wealthy.”  “We are a better country than what we’re seeing out of this big […]

The need for a special legislative session to address storm damage recovery in Kentucky hinges on the Trump administration’s decisions on pending disaster assistance requests, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear told reporters Thursday.  Since February, Kentucky has faced three natural disasters, including two flooding events and a tornado outbreak. Beshear said Kentucky still has not received […]

Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball has asked the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) to share information about “a significant number” of denials under Medicaid’s Home and Community Based Waiver (HCBW). Ball sent a letter to the cabinet asking for more information on Tuesday, saying “these denials have raised serious concerns” about waiver eligibility “as […]

A decade ago, Kaila Adia Story and Missy Jackson were determined: Whether or not the United States government ever recognized them as a couple, they would marry.  The two, who live in Louisville, had dated for three years by the time the United States Supreme Court took up Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark case that […]

TOPEKA — Democratic leaders rallied Wednesday against the congressional budget and tax cut bill, fearing changes to the national food assistance program will blow holes in state budgets and leave Americans hungry. Four Democratic governors and two U.S. senators slammed the proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program within the One Big Beautiful Bill […]

“Hi. My name is April Miller, and Kim Davis just denied me a marriage license.” Ten years ago, I answered that call from Morehead, Kentucky. I was the ACLU of Kentucky’s communications director at the time, and I knew immediately what April’s call meant. Without a single finger fumble I forwarded the call to our […]

FRANKFORT — Celebrating the passage of a swath of GOP policies this year, Senate Republican leaders, joined by constitutional officers, on Wednesday highlighted laws that will go into effect Friday.  The senators also unveiled the temporary quarters where lawmakers will convene while the Capitol undergoes renovations over the next few years. The new building stands […]

When the U.S. House last month approved cutting Medicaid by $793 billion over the next 10 years, the Kentucky Hospital Association issued a surprisingly upbeat statement thanking the Kentucky Republicans who voted for the legislation, especially Rep. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green. Guthrie had used his clout as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce […]

Kentucky’s utility regulator is inviting Kentuckians to weigh in on the possibilities of developing nuclear power plants in the state. The Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) in an order earlier this month opened a case to discuss “issues involving the construction, operation, and funding of potential nuclear electric generating facilities.” A PSC press release says […]