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An expensive and inaccessible child care industry makes life hard on working Kentuckians. Over half of working adults in Kentucky are parents, and over a third of those are parents of young children. When parents are forced out of the workforce because they lack child care, the effects fall largely on mothers.

The governor’s choice of Silas House as the state’s poet laureate has caused a backlash among Republicans. What should be controversial are the anti-LGBTQ measures that House and others have opposed, writes Skylas Baker-Jordan for The Daily Yonder.

Kentucky writer Teri Carter observes that new laws didn’t stop every drunk driver, but they dramatically reduced deaths and injuries — and the same would be true of gun violence.

The Pulitzer Prize winner is a retelling of Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield."

The state needs a comprehensive refashioning of all early-childhood education — including what’s offered in schools — into a more seamless system, argue children’s advocates.

Veteran state legislators aren’t comfortable with what should be common legislative process, observes columnist Al Cross.