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The price tags on legislation  — known as fiscal notes — have largely been removed from public view, writes Kentucky Lantern editor Jamie Lucke.
Following the Fancy Farm Picnic and Gov. Andy Beshear being passed up for vice president on the Harris ticket, columnist Al Cross takes a look at the prospects for several leading politicians in Kentucky.
Gov. Andy Beshear gets mentioned in any Top 10 list of possible replacements, and sometimes in a Top 5, but is not yet a major player like the governors of Michigan and Pennsylvania, two states Democrats need and could carry, unlike Kentucky, and other governors of larger states, writes columnist Al Cross.
The line separating good and evil is not party affiliation, it is fear of the other, writes columnist and gun safety activist Teri Carter. 
Long before anyone else, Mac Arthur imagined what a revitalized Sixth Street could mean for downtown Hopkinsville.