Gonyea has covered multiple presidential campaigns, traveled internationally to report on diplomacy and global events, and filed stories from locations including Moscow, Beijing, London, and Hanoi.
The $345,544 grant, part of a $79.2 million USDA investment nationwide, helps Kentucky fund projects that enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in the state and support specialty crop growers through marketing, education, and research.
McGrath, who joins three Democrats vying for the open U.S. Senate seat and at least three Republicans, wrote on social media that “democracy was under siege” and “cowards in Washington are bowing to Donald Trump.”