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'We're still standing' this Labor Day

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

“We’re still standing” is the theme of the Labor Day parade in Paducah, Ky.

It’s appropriate.

22, Aug, 2017

'Total eclipse was totally cool'

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

The skies darkened right on cue at 1:22.

When the sun disappeared over Paducah, the cicadas, which usually croon toward dusk, started to sing.

22, Aug, 2017

Indivisible Kentucky scorches McConnell on Falls City billboards

This post also appears on Daily Kos.

By BERRY CRAIG

30, Jul, 2017

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Cicero and Catiline or Chuck and Mitch?

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

When it was obvious the Senate’s “skinny repeal’” of the Affordable Health Care Act was toast, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got grumpy, came down with the mulligrubs and slumped in his chair.

28, Jul, 2017

Union card-packing satirical song writer says it's hard to keep pace with Trump 'absurdities and outrages'

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

“Ol’ Man Fibber” isn’t California crooner-guitar picker Roy Zimmerman’s only Kentucky connection.

13, Jul, 2017

Trump tops William Henry Harrison

By BERRY CRAIG
AFT Local 1360

Just when you think Donald Trump couldn't be more fatuous in word and deed, he proves you wrong.

19, Jun, 2017