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Let’s ensure KY mothers like me have a second chance – to regain voting rights and have a voice in their children’s future
Can you begin to imagine how disheartening it is to be a mom and be told you are not worthy of having a voice in your child’s future? Can you imagine being told that you have no rights to be involved in making decisions about your child’s education, health, and overall well-being because at some point in the past you made a bad decision?
The Big Bag of Meanness
I set out to write a story about Gov. Kristi Noem — potential VP pick for Trump — but I don’t have it in me. I can’t do it. I can’t go there. I can’t spend my mental currency, my heart (thank God, I still have my heart) on that lurid level of poison. We all have our limits and this is mine.
KFTC’s PAC issues primary endorsements
New Power PAC, the political action committee associated with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, has issued their endorsements in the upcoming primary. Taylor McGovern U’Sellis, Louisville Metro District 8. Tyra Thomas Walker, Louisville Metro District 24. From the announcement:. “KFTC members are working for a day when all Kentuckians can...
Kentucky Secretary of State predicts more early voting, 15 percent total turnout
Primary election day is a dozen days away, but by then, many Kentuckians will have already voted. Secretary of State Michael Adams said the absentee ballot request portal closed Tuesday at midnight and he expects the final total to match last May’s – about 18 thousand. He said absentee requests are a good predictor of total turnout.
The money primary w/Tom Loftus
This week, Doug and Dr. Clardy discuss the breaking Kentucky political news of the weak, including an update on political spending for the upcoming primaries, a conversation about education spending and teacher pay in the Commonwealth and then we’ll take a look at the big political donors behind Rand Paul and Kentucky’s upcoming elections with Kentucky Lantern reporter and Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame member, Tom Loftus. We then close out with a critical call to action urging EVERYONE to vote on Frankfort’s worst law of the 2024 session.
Massie & Greene fail to oust Speaker Mike Johnson
Efforts by a small group of far-right U.S. House Republicans to remove Speaker Mike Johnson from his leadership role failed Wednesday night, ending weeks of infighting about whether the Louisianan should remain the head of that chamber. Kentucky roll call on motion to table the resolution:. Yea: Barr, Comer, Guthrie,...
An excellent primary voter guide
Louisville Public Media has created an excellent voter guide for the upcoming primary. You enter your address and party, and it shows you the ballot for your location. You can then mark your choices, and save a “cheat sheet” to help you remember for whom you are voting.
The problem with vouchers and charter schools
We talk with Dr. Josh Cowen, author of the upcoming book "The Privateers," about what he has learned in his extensive research into school voucher programs and charter schools. To pre-order his book, go here. Interview Video from YouTube. Podcast Audio. --30--
Republicans double down on school vouchers by taking fight to rural members of their own party
State Republican leaders are cracking down on rural members of their own party who oppose universal school vouchers, which allow families to take a portion of their state’s education funding away from public schools to pay for their child’s private education. Rural state legislators have been more likely...
Teri Carter on Damon Thayer: ‘Some legacy’
In an April 21 KET interview, GOP Senate leader Damon Thayer was asked to define the term “normal Republican.”. “Someone who wants to help put the fire out that’s burning in America today,” he said, adding that he is “tired of the jokers,” only to add this minutes later: “I don’t think that President Trump is the problem, but I do think his style of politics exacerbated the situation and made it appear to be a more ugly and dirty and, yeah, by the way I’m voting for Donald Trump for president in November.”
Anne Gay Donworth interview and Dem primary preview
This week we welcome Anne Gay Donworth to the show to talk about her run in the Democratic primary for District 76 in the Kentucky House. She spoke about how she decided to run, what issues animate her, and why she's qualified for the seat. Also in this show, Jazmin...
How to tell if a conspiracy theory is probably false
Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and they can involve just about anything. People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons – including the fact that there are real conspiracies, like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin at the cost of countless American lives.
Kenton County cities mull medical cannabis business zoning
Kenton County cities must decide whether medical cannabis businesses can operate in their jurisdiction. At the April Fort Mitchell city council meeting, Sharmili Reddy, executive director at Kenton County Planning & Development Services, presented the options from a zoning perspective. In 2023, the Kentucky state legislature passed a bill legalizing...
Though noncitizens can vote in few local elections, GOP goes big to make it illegal
Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive to safeguard “election integrity,” even though noncitizens are rarely involved in voter fraud. Ahead of November’s presidential election, congressional and state Republican lawmakers are aiming...
Most of Kentucky's congressional delegation ask President Biden for disaster declaration
Most of Kentucky's federal delegation, sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their support for Governor Beshear's request for a major disaster declaration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky stemming from severe weather in April. The letter was signed by Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, and GOP Representatives...
Geoff Duncan: Why I’m voting for Biden and other Republicans should, too
Finally, at least one Republican politician understands what this election is all about. Former Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan (who had an eyewitness view of TFG’s (The Former Guy’s) attempt to overturn the results in that infamous phone call demanding an additional 11,700 votes be “found”) wrote the following in an opinion piece in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
With political protests, don’t trust your lying eyes
Activism on behalf of Gaza’s Palestinian population made its way to Lexington last week, in the form of a rally near the University of Kentucky’s main library. The modest crowd, estimated to number under 300, engaged in no violence, no vandalism, and no threatening behavior. No one faced arrest, nor did counter protestors accost them.
More than ever, ‘Union Wages Buy More’
This 74-year-old union retiree (American Federation of Teachers) remembers those old Kentucky State AFL-CIO novelty license plates that proclaimed “Union Wages Buy More.”. That’s true more than ever today. “Union members in the United States saw record raises, while nonunion workers’ pay barely beat inflation over the past 12 months, latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data shows,” says Thursday’s Team AFL-CIO Daily Brief in a short synopsis headlined “It’s Better in a Union: U.S. Union Members See Record Pay Raises, Outpacing Nonunion Workers.”
Election 2024 races with ONLY a primary
Here are the races on this year’s primary ballot where only one party is fielding candidates. In other words, whoever wins the primary is automatically the winner of the general. Incumbents are in Bold type. Note also the three open seats, with no incumbent running. Congressional District 4 –...
All Lege candidates running unopposed
Here is a list of all the General Assembly candidates who are running unopposed. Note that House 11, House 94, Senate 3, and Senate 35 are open seats, but since only one person filed, they automatically are elected. Note also that all the rest are incumbents running unopposed. In the...
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