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LIFT will need help to get through KY Senate

Feb 25, 2015 at 03:32 pm by admin

Kentucky House Bill 1, acronym LIFT (Local Investments for Transformation), passed the House on February 12, 2015. The bill would allow local governments to pass 1% sales taxe.... Read More

Is Your County Work Ready?

Feb 23, 2015 at 03:10 pm by admin

"Kentucky has the most rigorous certification program in the nation to allow communities to demonstrate their workforce quality. This is an opportunity to differentiate our co.... Read More

Siting Board Approves Application for Greenup County Plant Electric generating facility would use waste heat from coke ovens

Feb 23, 2015 at 02:01 pm by admin

Siting Board Approves Application for Greenup County PlantElectric generating facility would use waste heat from coke ovens FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 23, 2015) - The Kentucky State.... Read More

Dear Senator Paul - Come Home

Feb 23, 2015 at 01:33 pm by admin

2/3/16 Editor's Note: Sen. Paul announced the suspension (aka end) of his presidential campaign this morning. Below is the editorial we wrote back on February 23, 2015. He fi.... Read More

I Love to Read Week Celebrated

Feb 22, 2015 at 02:04 pm by admin

Just In Time for the Snow (Clinton, KY) - The wind chill is dangerously low, there is a foot of snow on the ground outside, and school has been cancelled for the rest of the.... Read More

HB 145 - statewide smoking ban passes committee

Feb 05, 2015 at 04:50 pm by admin

House Bill 145, a statewide ban, passed the House Health and Welfare Committee today. There were a few dissenting votes. If the bill becomes law, indoor smoking in public pla.... Read More

SOAR-ing ahead

Jan 30, 2015 at 03:19 pm by admin

On Monday, February 2, the Special License Plate Commission will consider a new license plate for SOAR - Shaping Our Appalachian Region. If SOAR gets its own plate, it will b.... Read More

Local Artist Works With Students

Jan 30, 2015 at 02:58 pm by admin

This month's Student Showcase display in the Hickman County High School Library featured clay sculptures created by Melinda Paul's middle school students. To conclude this mon.... Read More

Ford's legacy - building a modern 20th century gov't

Jan 29, 2015 at 02:46 pm by admin

There was a time when Kentucky State government was total chaos. The years of 1968 through 1972, federal funds from Washington DC flowed into Kentucky without rhyme or reason..... Read More

Right to Work Laws among oldest union busting tools

Jan 29, 2015 at 02:33 pm by admin

January 29, 2015Editor: "Most of the arguments against right-to-work have little basis in fact," James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation claimed in a story recently published.... Read More

Sen. Paul Urges General Assembly to Pass Amendment to Restore Voting Rights in Kentucky

Jan 07, 2015 at 02:33 pm by admin

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Rand Paul today urged the Kentucky General Assembly to pass a constitutional amendment to restore the right to vote for many nonviolent felons in the C.... Read More

SB 1 - Right to Work legislation is first Ky Senate bill

Jan 07, 2015 at 02:22 pm by admin

On the first day of this short session of the General Assembly, Republican leaders filed SB 1 - a right to work bill that looks very much like local ordinances. Co-sponsors.... Read More

Right to Work a Crap Shoot

Jan 06, 2015 at 04:40 pm by admin

Apologies for a letter rather than personal appearance before the Fiscal Court. A prior engagement in Arkansas prohibits my attendance.I object to the "Right to Work" Ordi.... Read More

Governor's Race the TOP story for 2015

Jan 06, 2015 at 03:41 pm by admin

Right next to Kentucky's mania with UK Sports is the mania for electing our constitutional officers. Normally, the race for Governor is the big show every four years. But in 2.... Read More

Low Road Economy No Path to Prosperity in Kentucky

Jan 06, 2015 at 02:46 pm by admin

The effort to pass a so-called right-to-work law in Kentucky has now moved to the local level with the first such ordinance passed in Warren County. While the proponents of th.... Read More