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Kentucky journalist Al Cross travels to his home county and appraises the community's future after the school board passed a double nickel tax to built a new Clinton County High School.
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The race between Ed Gallrein and Thomas Massie was a test of strength for Trump, writes columnist Al Cross.
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"UK is growing and changing because Kentucky is growing and changing," writes spokesman Jay Blanton.
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The University of Kentucky is in the middle of a vast, poorly explained reorganization, in which major swathes of the university are being put into limited liability companies, writes Kentucky Lantern editor Linda Blackford.
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Bill Bishop, a journalist who devoted much of his career to covering rural America, describes how the country's political system is now less about policy and more about grievance.
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The first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner was the right pick for one longtime observer of thoroughbred racing.
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Hoptown Chronicle editor Jennifer P. Brown takes stock of a landscape where giant mammoths, swift otters and colorful birds have roamed.
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An Italian immigrant who sold oysters and fish in Hopkinsville in the 1930s is one of the personalities from local history who helped spark a special meal at the Pennyroyal Area Museum.
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An experiment that aims to tackle loneliness uses a pair of old pay phones that connect two communities 3,000 miles apart.
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Section 23 of the state Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude “except as a punishment for a crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
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A provision in House Bill 534 would invite judicial candidates to disclose their political party affiliation and their current and past voter registration, including “communicating political values or viewpoints consistent with his or her party affiliation.”
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A celebration of Women's History Month and the United States' 250th anniversary through the exemplary lives of women connected to Hopkinsville.
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