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The Daily Yonder asked rural scholars and organizers to envision how we might get to a democracy that better engages and represents the needs of rural people and places. Here’s what they said.

For more than a year, Thomas Whitlock has been sharing a "Song of the Day" with a small but loyal group of followers who look forward to his rhythm and blues picks.

You hear a lot of stories about Kentucky’s “Bloody Breathitt.”

Hall, who grew up in Cadiz, was long admired as one of the best newspaper feature writers in Kentucky.

The price tags on legislation  — known as fiscal notes — have largely been removed from public view, writes Kentucky Lantern editor Jamie Lucke.

Here are some analog-world pursuits, things that are better without a smartphone.

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.

"The Full Scoop! — Music, News & Memories" is Aug. 15 at the Pennyroyal Area Museum.

A select handful of Kentucky’s most prominent state legislators are able to secret away “confidential” fiscal notes from the public and most other lawmakers, writes open government advocate Amye Bensenhaver.

Gov. Andy Beshear aggressively auditioned for the job of vice president by tearing into his would-be opposite: Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.

Relatives traveled here for the interment of a grandson's ashes at Cave Springs Cemetery and learned more about Coach Falls' legacy as the Attucks basketball coach.

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.