An ongoing decline in the role and influence of American houses of worship has become all but unstoppable. It's not one thing, but a perfect storm of factors causing the decline.
The Kentucky senator from Manchester sponsored legislation authorizing a tax-increment-financing plan to help redevelop economically depressed and heavily Black western Louisville. He also sponsored a bill to limit no-knock warrants.
He loved the clash of opinions, but he valued the facts above anything else, and he kept his mind open to facts that might change it. That is the journalism of good faith — driven by facts, not by opinion, and by a search for the truth.
As protests continue every Saturday morning in downtown Murray, one woman faces a misdemeanor charge that has lingered for months while the pandemic delays court hearings.
Hoptown Chronicle will be compiling reader responses in a collection of vignettes that we hope sheds light on Hopkinsville’s unique experience during the pandemic.
In the 1950s, Ruby McCollum's free speech rights were revoked for fear her honest testimony about sexual abuse would “subject the community to embarrassment.”
Redistricting historically has been, first and foremost, an incumbent protection procedure. It has also been a tool for giving partisan advantage. It’s fair to argue that this is all just part of a longstanding political process. But there are larger interests at stake.
We’ve all experienced big changes. Some more than others. As we approach the anniversary of shutdowns and the first coronavirus cases in Christian County, Hoptown Chronicle wants to hear from readers.
HB 312 would make leaders of the General Assembly the sole judges of what legislative records could be released to the public. It passed in the Kentucky House on Friday. Reps. Walker Thomas, Myron Dossett and Lynn Bechler, whose districts include parts of Christian County, all voted for the bill.
