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Fancy Farm 2022: We all didn't see the same event

Aug 14, 2022 at 03:40 pm by admin

Eight days past the St. Jerome Picnic stump speak (conducted on a shaded stage with multiple overhead fans cooling the fevered brows of the pols on the platform) I think my st.... Read More

2050 Population Projections For Western Kentucky Challenge the Region to Unite

Aug 14, 2022 at 01:05 pm by admin

A new report from the Kentucky State Data Center at the University of Louisville forecasts significant lags in western Kentucky county populations through 2050. This is notab.... Read More

KDP Chair Colmon Eldridge - Dems need to fight back

Aug 05, 2022 at 07:20 pm by admin

The first question I posed to Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Colmon Eldridge was one shared by many frustrated Democrats in Western Kentucky. "How does the Democratic Party p.... Read More

Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

May 22, 2022 at 12:36 pm by admin

If former United States Senator and Vice President Alben W. Barkley could return 100 years after his losing the gubernatorial primary in 1923 in his first statewide campaign,.... Read More

New Book Details 20th Century Advances in Western Kentucky

Feb 09, 2022 at 09:32 am by admin

Editor's Note: The Fall of Kentucky's Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics Since the New Deal was selected for a 2022 Kentucky History Award, presented by the Kentucky.... Read More

McGrath on a barnstorming campaign flying herself across Kentucky

Oct 23, 2020 at 10:59 am by admin

Using a skill learned in the Marines, Amy McGrath is flying herself around Kentucky in her campaign to defeat Senator Mitch McConnell. Retired Marine pilot Amy McGr.... Read More

Her name was Hanna and she was sold to settle a debt.

Jun 28, 2020 at 03:32 pm by admin

One hundred seventy nine years ago on the day after Independence Day, an auction was held on the Hickman County Courthouse steps in the county seat of Clinton. It wasn't that.... Read More

Governor requests Presidential Disaster Declaration

Apr 09, 2019 at 11:28 am by admin

FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 9, 2019) - Gov. Matt Bevin last week sent a letter to President Donald Trump, requesting a Presidential Disaster Declaration for 58 Kentucky counties tha.... Read More

Are Extreme Weather and Flooding Events Signs of Climate Change Tipping Point in Far Western Kentucky?

Mar 26, 2019 at 02:52 pm by admin

Next to and along the roaring waters of the Mississippi River that border the counties of Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman and Fulton Kentucky are new signs of extreme changes in lo.... Read More

Tearing, Burning, Falling Down- Losing History and Heritage in Small Towns

Feb 12, 2018 at 02:43 pm by admin

Editor's Note: This analysis from 2018 feels prophetic. Many of the downtown buildings in Mayfield were heritage brick buildings. The 21st Century has been very cruel to many.... Read More

Hold it awhile longer while on the WK Parkway - Beaver Dam Rest Area Opening Delayed

Jan 25, 2018 at 03:35 pm by admin

FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 25, 2018) - Today Finance and Administration Cabinet Secretary William M. Landrum III announced the opening of the Beaver Dam Rest Area, originally slated.... Read More

Hemp: the holy grail for West Kentucky farmers

Aug 24, 2017 at 03:27 pm by admin

Hemp is quickly becoming the Holy Grail for Western Kentucky farmers. The promise of a new crop that can be animal feed, people food, medicine, fabric, and a building material.... Read More

Two companies add jobs in Western Kentucky

Jul 30, 2017 at 07:12 pm by admin

New aluminum smelting furnace will boost production capacity FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 28, 2017) - Gov. Matt Bevin today announced aluminum producer Audubon Metals LLC will expand.... Read More