Beshear’s concerns about UK are valid – accountability starts at the top
But big money appears to be the thing driving the train.
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To support Kentuckians, tax the companies profiting off war
With gas prices surging in Kentucky and beyond, most Americans support taxing windfall profits — and billionaires — to help working people weather the affordability crisis.
The strategy that built America’s middle class still works. So why won’t Democrats deploy it?
The same bold playbook that built the middle class can restore it, and voters are ready for it.
The General Assembly’s 2026 state budget process was basically ‘just trust us’
Once again, millions of our tax dollars are being spent with no insight into where and with no input from us, the people actually paying the bills.
My dog Pongo explains the hope family members hold for their MAGA relatives
May THIS time it will be different!
The rubber-stamp politicians in Frankfort serve the wealthy and the powerful, and leave the rest of us poorer and further behind
Kentucky mothers can rest easy now knowing that, while they work three jobs and still can’t make rent, their elected officials have placed a teen’s right to bear arms above that same kid’s right to safe, affordable housing.
Who is ‘News Nation’ for, anyway?
The network of the “tired and fired” isn’t clear on its target demographic – but Ivonne Rovira is.
We commission statues of Men Like You
Like you: elder white men at the peak of your power – no matter how you use it
He Did It Again: Trump announces seemingly imaginary Iran breakthrough, taking Wall Street for another ride
In a manic series of posts, Trump lays out a vision of victory that looks like a humiliating loss.
Ever the wild card, Rand Paul stands firm as he proves willing to rattle the cage
His stands on Constitutional issues sometimes puts him at odds with his Repub colleagues
Choose you this day whom you will serve
Kentucky Christians, which will it be: your faith, or Trump?
The degeneration of the party of Lincoln
The MAGA GOP is the party of Trump and hate. The party of racism. Sexism. Misogyny. Nativism. Xenophobia. Anti-LGBTQ bigotry. Christian Nationalism. Militarism. Elitism. Greed.
False confessions and self-deportations are the red flags of a failing system
And our American system of justice is definitely failing
