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

Small Steps Led to Big Changes for Kentucky Dems

May 23, 2022 at 11:33 am by admin

The question posed by George Humphreys in his look back at the Democratic political history of Western Kentucky Where Have All the Democrats Gone? is one that has more than on.... 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

Breakfasts, Dinners presage political speaking

Jul 20, 2017 at 03:18 pm by admin

The Grand Old Party and the Democrats will gather again in the Purchase for a series of chomp ins around the annual Fancy Farm Picnic. Thursday August 3, 2017 Congressman Jo.... Read More

‘Votes these times serve as a kind of Military Census’

Aug 02, 2012 at 12:44 pm by admin

(August 4, 2012)  - On this date in 1862, Circuit Judge Rufus King Williams of Mayfield was on the verge of election to the Court of Appeals, then Kentucky’s highes.... Read More

Governor explains why slots good for the Purchase

Jun 22, 2009 at 08:42 am by admin

             I spoke with Governor Beshear on Friday evening and asked him about the Senate A & R Committee&rsq.... Read More