LEXINGTON — Fred Vickers said he waited more than an hour to vote at the Tates Creek library in Lexington Thursday afternoon.  “Once you get inside, there’s nothing to it,” Vickers added. He waited to cast his ballot because he felt like it was his “civic duty.” The line at the library stretched out the front […]

Kentucky Educational Television’s executive director and CEO Shae Hopkins, who led the public television network for more than 17 years while the network amassed viewers and brought in regional and national awards, died Thursday. She was 69.  Hopkins had planned to retire from her role at the end of the year while a search committee […]

Kentucky elected Mitch McConnell to the U.S. Senate 42 years ago, and through all those years, McConnell worked relentlessly to radically change American law and politics to allow billionaires and corporations to pour massive amounts of money into election campaigns. While demolishing campaign finance laws, McConnell and associates raised billions of dollars for Republican candidates […]