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Didn't vote for Trump and want a 'Don't blame me' bumper sticker?

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

With President Trump tanking in the polls, Terry Stahl figured his idea for a bumper sticker was bound to be a hit.

11, Sep, 2017

'Everybody wins with single-payer'

EDITOR'S NOTE: More than 600 labor organizations, including the Kentucky State AFL-CIO, have endorsed HR 676.

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

08, Sep, 2017

'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