Opinion

Alvarado: Legislative session nears midpoint

It’s sometimes good to pause during session and acknowledge events taking place outside the Senate chamber. In the ...

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Witt: An unreasonable piece of legislation

Sometimes it seems there aren’t enough adverbs in the English language to adequately describe “stupid.” About one of ...

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Koutoulas: Humility in politics? You could be wrong

Watching the political rhetoric play out daily in Washington and in Frankfort can be disheartening at times. But ...

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Witt: Country lacks common vision, faces challenges

A recent reading of “That Used to be Us,” co-authored by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, and an article ...

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Koutoulas: What is campaign finance reform?

Last week, the online news site Axios broke the story that a new “independent expenditure group” will pour ...

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Caldwell: Imperfect people can still have big impact

I dropped heavily on the hotel couch, my legs sort of giving out on the way down. Reading the ...

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Alvarado: Budget talks begin in regular session

Discussions of bills, budgets and the voices of a barbershop quartette echoed in the Capitol as we concluded ...

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Koutoulas: Meditation is making a difference

People who only know me casually may think of me as an easy-going person; for the most part, ...

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Witt: Why is there little confidence in our election system?

Senate Bill 2 has passed out of committee by a party line vote of 8-3. First, it is ...

Community Columnists

MARUSKIN: New, classic Kentucky natural history books at the local library

The library received two new books about Kentucky flora and fauna, and they reminded me of others that ...

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