Kentucky’s top agriculture official applauded Republican President Donald Trump for signing an executive order to defer federal taxes on red-dyed diesel through the end of the year, but says the state can still offer extra help to offset costs.  Republican Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell sent a letter to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s office last week […]

It was an early November day, cold and snowy. My father, Walter, was 85 and recovering from cataract surgery gone bad. He did the things an 85-year-old did – he read his newspaper daily despite an 8th grade education, told WWII stories, and doted on his grandchildren. But there was one more thing he did […]

More than a year after a Northern Kentucky protest at Roebling Street Bridge over federal immigration officials’ arrest of an Ohio cleric, a protester was arrested Monday morning on an upgraded charge.  Benjamin Potash, a Louisville lawyer representing Taylor Marshall, told the Kentucky Lantern that his client’s arrest and detainment at the Kenton County Detention […]