Since those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it, I suggest Kentucky’s Transportation Secretary Jim Gray read the Courier Journal’s 1994 multi-part series on the state’s “blacktop monopolies.” The six-month investigation, reported by Tom Loftus and John Voskuhl, found “the entire state-funded resurfacing program is plagued by a lack of competition.” Secretary Gray […]
On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing American women’s right to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.
Months of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting haven’t made headway, but the stakes have risen since Trump met with with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Monday in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has shifted to saying an overall peace agreement — and not a ceasefire — is the next step in ending the 3 1/2-year-old war.
Shoppers spent at a healthy pace in July, particularly at the nation’s auto dealerships.
Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman say investigators have been looking into a whistleblower’s allegations that immigrants paid temporary contract workers to illegally obtain state driver’s licenses. Louisville TV station WDRB reported Monday a former clerk at a Kentucky driver’s licensing office said co-workers sold, for $200 each, state driver’s […]
The Trump administration has refused to fund a study that was to have measured toxic air pollution in West Louisville. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied an appeal of the EPA’s cancellation of the grant that was paying for the study, a spokesperson for Louisville’s air pollution regulator said. The Lantern previously reported the Louisville […]
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he vowed it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S. "an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.”
SHEPHERDSVILLE — Kentucky Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer said that while he supports President Donald Trump’s crime-fighting moves in Washington, D.C., he hopes similar efforts will not be replicated in Kentucky. Trump mobilized National Guard troops and asserted control of police in the nation’s capital on Monday under what he declared a “crime emergency.” He […]
As Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie asserts strong positions in opposition to President Donald Trump, he increasingly looks like the future of the Republican Party. Americans who appreciate political courage, including Trump supporters, are celebrating Massie’s push for release of the “Epstein files,” the records of the criminal investigation into the late pedophile and child […]
People who get their flu shot while attending the Kentucky State Fair will receive a $20 Kroger gift card from the Kentucky Association of Health Plans. The Kentucky State Fair is Aug. 14-24 at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville. The Kentucky Association of Health Plans will have a flu vaccine clinic in the Healthy […]
LOUISVILLE — The University of Louisville announced an expansion of the U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and Secretary Elaine L. Chao Archives with the political figures Tuesday. McConnell, the longest serving party leader of the U.S. Senate, graduated from the university in the 1960s and later established the McConnell Center, a nonpartisan academic program, for UofL students. […]
For years, state lawmakers have taken the lead on regulating kratom — the controversial herbal supplement used for pain relief, anxiety and opioid withdrawal symptoms. Some states have banned it entirely. Others have passed laws requiring age limits, labeling and lab testing. At least half of the states and the District of Columbia have enacted […]
Jim Farley, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, told an audience at the Louisville Assembly Plant the automotive industry was at a “crossroads” with electric vehicles. …
LOUISVILLE — Ford Motor Company will invest nearly $2 billion to convert a longtime auto manufacturing plant in Louisville to build electric vehicles from a new platform adaptable to multiple vehicle types, aiming to launch a mid-sized EV pickup truck by 2027. Ford President and CEO Jim Farley told an audience of plant workers, local […]
About two-thirds of Kentucky community college students surveyed last year say they have experienced depression or anxiety while 1 in 5 reported engaging in “self-injurious behavior.” In response, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System is launching a Mental Health Strategy for its roughly 100,000 students. KCTCS President Ryan Quarles told the Lantern that since […]
When Siri Fiske founded the Mysa Microschool in Washington, D.C., in 2016, there wasn’t a widely accepted term for her small, one-room schoolhouse model. Now, the school is referred to on its website as one of the first microschools in the nation, and Fiske has seen a growing microschool movement since the COVID-19 pandemic. In […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear’s super PAC reported another $824,800 in contributions on Friday bringing the total it raised in the first six months of this year to $1,443,000. The largest of the contributions by far was $225,000 from Andrew Nathan Schwartzberg, a real estate developer based in Maryland who focuses on affordable housing […]
LEXINGTON — Republican candidates for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat set the tone for their campaigns ahead of next year’s primary during the state party’s Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday night. While the thorny primary was at the center of the evening, the influence of outgoing U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell on the party was clear. Speakers […]
FANCY FARM — Just how MAGA is Kentucky? More pertinently, how MAGA are Kentucky Republicans? And most proximately, how MAGA are the people who will vote in the state’s May 2026 Republican primary for U.S. senator? Senate candidate Nate Morris may provide the answer to the last question, at least. The wealthy Lexington businessman says […]