More than one million federal contractors lost a month of pay during the government shutdown but have yet to receive the back pay they deserve. Tell Congress to right that wrong.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received this statement from Kentucky Education Association President Stephanie Winkler: “KEA agrees with Attorney General Beshear’s opinion. The Capitol building is the People’s House. It should not be used as political fodder for elected leaders who are disgruntled by citizens exercising their rights to assemble and use free speech. Governors and elected leaders will come and go, but issues that affect Kentuckians will be debated in the chambers of the Capitol building far into the future.
This is the week that the broad outlines of President Trump’s reelection strategy are coming into focus. Trump will continue pushing forward with his reactionary xenophobic nationalist agenda on immigration, while executing a massive but largely phony pivot back to the pro-worker economic populism he immediately abandoned upon taking office.
FRANKFORT – Gov. Matt Bevin’s newly selected running mate, Dr. Ralph Alvarado, was among the doctors alleged to have accepted “illicit" gifts while referring Medicare patients to a Lexington home health care agency, according to a lawsuit settled in 2015.
Republicans love to brag on themselves as the party of “traditional Kentucky values.”
Two "values" come to my mind: election-stealing and union-busting. The former used to be bipartisan; the latter is still vintage GOP. Anyway, they're linked.
If you saw a ballot where the straight-party box was partially colored in, but then a line was drawn through the party name and the rest of the box, and the voter proceeded to cast votes in individual races, what would you conclude?
Any reasonable person, looking at that ballot, would assume that the voter changed their mind about voting straight party, and instead decided to cast votes in the races they cared about. And to leave blank the races they weren’t sure about.
LOUISVILLE, KY. -- Kentucky House Speaker David Osborne on Monday dismissed chances for a quick agreement to change one of the country's worst-funded public pension systems as state lawmakers prepare to resume this year's legislative session.
