At 2:30 Saturday morning, I woke up troubled by the October 23 hearing in the Kentucky Court of Appeals that I had attended. One thought kept returning: We shouldn’t have been in that courtroom at all. I had listened as attorneys debated subpoenas, funding, the State Auditor’s authority and whether the dispute was moot. How […]

Kentuckians won’t just vote on who to replace the outgoing U.S. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell in the general election on Nov. 3.  In addition to a constitutional amendment and local races, voters will decide who will represent them in the Kentucky General Assembly for the next two- and six- year terms. While all 100 in […]

Kentucky election officials say they have been alerted by the U.S. Department of Justice that election monitors will head to the state’s largest cities for next week’s general election.  A DOJ attorney sent an emailed letter to Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams and Kentucky State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Sellers about the […]