A Laurel County judge has ruled that embattled London Mayor Randall Weddle is ineligible to be a candidate in the town’s upcoming mayoral election.

Kentucky is in a housing crisis. We know this. Our state suffers a shortage of more than 200,000 homes and the vast majority of that gap is a lack of housing for low-income households or those who can only afford to pay $500 a month in rent. We know that people’s wages aren’t keeping up […]

FRANKFORT – The latest finance report filed by Gov. Andy Beshear’s super PAC shows all of the signs of a campaign committee of a presidential candidate. It also discloses a big contribution from a first-time Beshear donor.  The political action committee is called In This Together PAC Inc., and the report it filed with the […]

Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell will not be voting this week following a recent hospitalization. 

Lexington works to heal pain of racial violence history.

Kentucky lawmakers directed more than $1.7 billion from the state’s “rainy day fund,” to one-time spending projects across the state.

The message from the Kentucky GOP in the upcoming election cycle will focus around three tenets – faith, family and freedom.  That’s the message nearly 1,000 GOP faithful heard at the Republican Party of Kentucky’s Statewide Lincoln Dinner Saturday night at the Central Bank Center. Party leaders, office holders, donors and members gathered to listen […]

Purdue Pharma introduced the painkiller OxyContin in late 1995 – and we are still learning of the harm it has caused. Purdue marketed Oxy in communities with high percentages of people with chronic pain from cancer. The company particularly targeted Appalachian communities. Oxy proved especially addictive and easy to both obtain and abuse. When restrictions […]

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Drugs and the consequences of addiction are woven into the fabric of Jamie Madden’s life. Her earliest memory is of standing on the passenger seat of her dad’s car as a toddler, wearing a peach-colored blouse, while he drove from their Kentucky home to Florida to pick up drugs. On a stop […]

Tim Robinson, the former CEO of what was once Kentucky’s largest and fast-growing addiction treatment company, has entered a not guilty plea in federal court to fraud charges related to finances at the Louisa-based company. Robinson, who founded what became Addiction Recovery Care, or ARC, as a single halfway house in 2008 in Eastern Kentucky, […]

James Bruggers, a longtime Kentucky environmental and energy journalist whose groundbreaking coverage spanned from the hazards of coal mines to scrutinizing polluters, died Tuesday. He was 68.  Bruggers spent nearly two decades reporting at the Louisville Courier Journal, first arriving in 1999 after reporting stints in Washington and California and after graduating from the University […]

Are data centers the new coal? Or are they the new landfills? Or the new prisons? The comparisons aren’t perfect, but they are easy to make: a brand new shiny industry owned by out-of-state corporations comes to a beleaguered region with the promise of (some) jobs, part of an ephemeral promise to buttress the failing […]

A coalition of prediction market companies including Polymarket and Kalshi is suing to block Kentucky’s recently enacted tax on prediction markets.  The lawsuit filed in Franklin Circuit Court by the Coalition for Fair Markets — which represents prediction market companies where people can wager on the outcomes of events, including sports games — calls the […]

Kentuckians deserve better than this.

A spokesperson for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said the Kentucky Republican is keeping up with government business during his recent hospitalization. 

Judy and I just reviewed our youngest grandchildren’s report cards (Their older siblings mysteriously can’t find theirs!) and those Brooks kids seemingly are doing well.  The documents were filled with “Os” and “Ss,” which I guess are now the new “A” and “B.”  In-depth narratives – generated by either AI or hard-working teachers – densely […]

A Democratic state lawmaker is working on a bill to file next year in Frankfort that would try to regulate the impacts of hyperscale data centers and the transparency concerns swirling around those pending developments in the state.  Rep. Adam Moore, D-Lexington, proposed a bill during this year’s legislative session that sought to ensure electricity […]

An email Friday from former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s personal account to various media outlets, blasts lawyers for his estranged son, Jonah Bevin, for making “FALSE STATEMENTS” to the media and accuses Jonah of trying “TO SHAKE HIS PARENTS DOWN FOR MONEY.”  The two-page email, mostly in capital letters, repeats attacks on Jefferson Family Court […]

At a press conference earlier this month, a reporter told Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear that people in Boyd and Greenup counties had been “caught off guard” by a deal local officials unveiled to bring a very large data center to the area. A number of Boyd County residents had packed a town hall the day […]

Commentary: Just say no to data centers.