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Kentucky has already made great strides protecting our Civil War battlegrounds. Thanks to not-for-profit organizations, “friends” groups, public-private partnerships, volunteers, grants, donors, the American Battlefield Trust and state and local governments, the past 25 years have been a golden age for Bluegrass state battlefield preservation.

"Moral force is necessary for moral change to take place," Richard Nelson, executive director of the Commonwealth Policy Center, writes in a viewpoint for Hoptown Chronicle. "The force that animated abolitionists to end slavery in the 19th century and propelled the civil rights movement of the 1960s must be embraced if we’re to see full reconciliation between the races in the 21st century."

Every person who bought a Date Night To-Go package, placed an online order or knocked on the taproom door for carry-out has had a hand in keeping the business afloat, the brewery's founder says.

After weeks spent at home avoiding the coronavirus, our resilience is fading. The Greatest Generation offers a lesson.

WKMS’ request identified a handful of specific officials whose emails it sought, a narrow time frame for the search and an even narrower search topic.

Ample online resources are available for those interested in writing and recording their original short poem.

An analysis of U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie's actions by long-time Kentucky political writer Al Cross.

What really comes across is his earnestness. He often refers to his children, and sometimes he sounds like his whole audience is children, without talking down to us.

Sunshine Week is observed by the news media, government watchdogs and ordinary citizens to promote the importance of open government in a democracy.

Berea College was the first racially integrated, coeducational college in the South, serving equal numbers of black and white students until the Kentucky legislature forced school segregation in 1904.

The rich cultural heritage of Calloway County’s African American communities gets scant attention from the community at large, so a booklet like the one marking the 50th reunion of Douglass High School is precious.

While the transplant policy is well-intentioned, the fact is the governing board creating and directing the policy is dominated by officials from large urban, coastal areas. The resulting policy benefits those areas.