Elections

Voters will be asked to decide whether public money should go to support private education. Opponents say it would undermine public schools by shifting money from them, while backers maintain that state aid would give parents more control over their kids’ education.

McConnell’s PAC reported giving $2,100 (the maximum allowed by state law) on Aug. 20 to each of 95 Republicans running in Kentucky.

Despite the tensions building on users’ digital feeds, an impending election doesn’t mean that people need to avoid social media altogether.

The Daily Yonder asked rural scholars and organizers to envision how we might get to a democracy that better engages and represents the needs of rural people and places. Here’s what they said.

Competing political issue committees have raised millions of dollars that will be spent on ads supporting and opposing a ballot referendum asking whether Kentucky should amend its constitution to allow public funds to go to private and charter schools.

In addition to the candidate forums, the league's voter education efforts this fall will include a meeting with County Clerk Melinda Humphries and a meet and greet event for voters and candidates.

The governor highlighted reproductive freedom and overcoming division in politics while backing Harris for president.

With three years left in office, the Democratic governor has a list of priorities. The Legislature’s Republican supermajority has other ideas.