One landmark of Carter’s term was ratification of the treaty giving the Panama Canal to Panama. Kentucky’s U.S. senators, both Democrats, split on ratification; Wendell Ford voted against it, while Dee Huddleston voted for it.
Truly improving social studies education will require schools to address the systemic issues that plague our educational system, writes Jeffery Tyler Syck, director of the Center for Public Service at the University of Pikeville.
Even on a rainy night, the sights in the Hopkinsville Christmas Parade were a delight, while the sounds of sirens screeching, horns blasting and engines revving were not so Christmasy.
A moment in the 1975 Kentucky gubernatorial debate helps illustrate the devolution of Gable's party and American politics at large, writes columnist Al Cross.
After the Robinson-Patman Act was dismantled, independent grocers and smaller supply businesses couldn't compete on price and were squeezed out of their neighborhood markets.
McConnell is the most prominent anti-Trump Republican, one who endorsed the former president only because he felt obliged to do so as Senate GOP leader, writes Al Cross.
If Kamala Harris had won, Beshear's presidential ambitions would have been deferred beyond 2028 — not good for a governor whose term ends in December 2027, writes political columnist Al Cross.
Leslie Carroll says in a letter to Save Jennie Stuart that remaining independent "could require a reduction in services or other difficult decisions in the future" at the Hopkinsville hospital.