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WATCH: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Makes Non-Partisan Case Against Tariffs

Feb 02, 2025 at 07:09 pm by WKJ Editorial Team

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear makes a non-partisan case for Kentucky against President Trump's tariffs. Watch HERE. Be sure to turn the sound on. Kentucky bourbon is a $.... Read More

POLITICS for the POLIS-- Let’s Talk/Let’s Thrive

Feb 01, 2025 at 01:31 pm by Rev. Amanda Groves

There are some words that are interpreted as “bad” when they are heard or read, but that is not the whole picture. For example, in the sentence “Remember, th.... Read More
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Your Voice Matters! Contacting Your Elected Officials

Feb 01, 2025 at 01:31 pm by WKJ Editorial Team

We sometimes hear from people that they are "not interested in politics." As renowned twentieth-century journalist Martha Gellhorn once noted, "They might as well say, 'I'm no.... Read More

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

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

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

Ten Years of Census Data Show Changes in the Purchase

Aug 24, 2021 at 11:13 am by admin

Changes are in store for the Purchase because census data shows gains and losses in unexpected areas West Kentucky is usually defined as those 18 counties west of Bowling Gree.... Read More

The pursuit of justice is the business of a great nation

Feb 11, 2021 at 10:40 am by admin

If a conviction of a seditious president does not happen, House and Senate Democrats may push for a censure resolution to bar former President Donald Trump from holding future.... Read More

Grassley seals his legacy

Sep 22, 2020 at 02:19 pm by admin

Dear Friends, This will probably annoy some of my Democratic friends, so let's just get it out of the way: I once voted for Senator Chuck Grassley. That's right. In 1991, Gras.... Read More

Laws of Change and Entrepreneurial Education

Sep 01, 2020 at 04:59 pm by admin

Law No. 1 The entrenchment of traditions, without compassion and or vision, suffocates the rise of educational innovation. Law No. 2 Order and chaos are in equal proportion.... Read More

Ghost Battalions of West Kentucky on the March to Defeat Mitch McConnell

Sep 01, 2020 at 04:59 pm by admin

Editorial and Political Intelligence They call themselves "concerned mothers and grandparents." Others are now calling them the Ghost Battalion of West Kentucky. Old time pol.... Read More

Burma Shave McConnell signs - damaged, fixed in record time

Jul 30, 2020 at 10:39 am by admin

Looking for creative ways to express their opposition to Senator Mitch McConnell, a small group of Purchase activists brainstormed ideas in an evening zoom meeting. One idea.... Read More

AFL/CIO endorses McGrath

Jul 25, 2020 at 11:12 am by admin

As expected, the Kentucky State AFL-CIO endorsed Democrat Amy McGrath for the U.S. Senate on Thursday. "She has pledged her support for working people and unions and her oppo.... Read More

Fancy Farm 2020: BBQ without political brawling

Jun 28, 2020 at 03:58 pm by admin

Fancy Farm Picnic is the latest in a series of iconic events changed, cancelled or postponed because of Covid-19. There will be barbecue on the first weekend of August. There.... Read More

McRaven calls Gens X and Y "the next greatest generation"

Feb 22, 2020 at 11:07 am by admin

(Murray KY, February 13, 2020) Retired Admiral William McRaven is legendary among the military community. His service record reads like an action movie. An officer's kid who g.... Read More