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The legacy of the 2023 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly can be summarized in a single word: disenfranchisement, writes Amye Bensenhaver, retired Kentucky assistant attorney general and co-director of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.

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.

When he won the White House in 1860, Lincoln lost every county and failed to tally a single vote in 36 of the state’s 110 counties.

Kentucky lawmakers can pass legislation that the incumbent would be embarrassed to sign or pay a political price to veto, observes columnist Al Cross.

After a decade of journaling about the world around her, Hoptown Chronicle editor Jennifer P. Brown decided to flip the focus.

From TV remotes to cellphones and laptops, technology evolves at a rapid pace, columnist Constance Alexander observes.

House Health Services chair Kim Moser’s HB 51 would allow providers to charge for copies to reduce health care costs.

As scholars, civil rights activists and King’s own children have long pointed out, uses of King’s words are too often attempts to weaponize his memory against the multicultural democracy of which King could only dream.

The first book swap at The Corner Coffeehouse attracted dozens of book-lovers.

No one in Frankfort is giving proper credit for the state surplus, which is the massive infusion of pandemic relief money, observes journalist Jamie Lucke.

Mitch McConnell’s new mission, in likely his last term, seems to be saving the Republican Party from Trump, observes columnist Al Cross.