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Fancy Farm Picnic 2015 - make it a long weekend

Jul 28, 2015 at 02:51 pm by admin

Dinners/Breakfasts around Fancy Farm Picnic 2015 Thursday 7/30: Jackson Purchase Republican "Picnic and Politics in the Park"; 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Columbus-Belmont Park (free) 10.... Read More

Thank God Mitch is thinking about retiring...why else write his memoir?

May 29, 2015 at 04:05 pm by admin

Mitch McConnell has seen the light at the end of the tunnel and it is flashing the message "grab the special interests money and run for the exits as fast as you can." In a pr.... Read More

Friends and Family Election on May 19th

Apr 14, 2015 at 01:19 pm by admin

May 19, 2015 is Primary Election Day in Kentucky. It is shaping up to be a day that most poll workers dread - a long boring one. At this writing, predictions of a 20% turnout.... Read More

Andy Beshear, candidate for AG, visits River Counties

Apr 01, 2015 at 01:00 pm by admin

Andy Beshear, Democratic candidate for Kentucky Attorney General in the November 2015 election, toured the River Counties on Monday starting in Ballard County and ending his d.... Read More

2015 Short Session - a stunning array of bills

Mar 31, 2015 at 03:14 pm by admin

As this short session concludes, let's recall the stunning array of issues placed on the legislative table at the beginning. From Agriculture (right-to-farm) to Banking and I.... Read More

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd visits MSU

Feb 25, 2015 at 02:43 pm by admin

(Murray, KY) - Meet the Press host Chuck Todd listed Kentucky Senator Rand Paul as part of his Final Four for the GOP presidential race. Todd told reporters on Tuesday former.... Read More

Vice President Biden remembers Sen. Wendell Ford

Jan 27, 2015 at 03:36 pm by admin

Jill and I were very sorry to hear of the passing of Senator Wendell Ford. He was one of the most effective legislative leaders I've ever worked with throughout my entire car.... Read More

An Even Dozen of Top Stories of 2014

Jan 05, 2015 at 04:41 pm by admin

Who needs 10 top stories when 12 will do? Here are our picks for the big stories we saw in 2014: 1. The Election of 2014: A year of politics and political spending ends with.... Read More

Mike Miller, Marshall County Judge, dies at age 70

Dec 15, 2014 at 01:58 pm by admin

Marshall County Judge Mike Miller collapsed in his office this morning and died at the Marshall County Hospital around 11 a.m. The longest serving county judge in Kentucky,.... Read More

Dems, It's Time to Dump Dixie - The Daily Beast

Dec 09, 2014 at 03:52 pm by admin

"With Mary Landrieu's ignominious exit, the Democrats will have lost their last senator in the Deep South. And that's a good thing. They should write it off--because they don.... Read More

Witnessing history: 2nd woman to become KY Lt. Gov

Nov 21, 2014 at 11:28 am by admin

(Frankfort KY) - Crit Luallen was sworn in on Friday, November 14th to become the second woman to serve as Kentucky's Lieutenant Governor. She took the oath before a crowd of.... Read More

Democracy in Action

Sep 11, 2014 at 09:06 am by admin

The Hickman County High School Library was recently transformed into a polling center as students voted to elect members to this year's Student Council. To make the experience.... Read More

Rand Paul's Simplicity is the Reason for his Complexity

Aug 21, 2014 at 11:02 am by admin

West Kentucky JournalThe public spirit known as Senator Rand Paul is making both the progressive left mad at him at the same time as the moderate right hates him. Neither poli.... Read More

Mitch McConnell calls Alison Lundergan Grimes "new face of the status quo"

Aug 21, 2014 at 11:02 am by admin

(Clinton, KY ) - Workers at Harper's Country Hams got a break last Friday when their senior Kentucky Senator stopped by for a brief visit. Work stopped as they came out of the.... Read More

Political Signs dominate Picnic landscape

Aug 05, 2014 at 05:05 pm by admin