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Beshear update, Court of Appeals setback, Sen. Wise tests positive, Half of households losing employment income, How endorsements happen, & TSOK.
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Beshear update, Yarmuth on federal aid, Healthy at Home study, Push for help with health care, Meatpacking health department complaints, & TSOK.
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Well, it finally made its way from Texas to Kentucky. We finally have a bill that says we have to teach the “good side” of the Holocaust. And of Jim Crow. And
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By Bruce Maples Over the years that I’ve been running Forward Kentucky, I’ve also (obviously) paid attention to both the political news and the political commentary. And I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon.
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Notes from Bruce Hello! Here’s this week’s Subscribers & Members newsletter. As always, it’s got a listing of everything published since the last newsletter a week ago; the most-read piece from the past
MoreBruce Maples 12 Aug 2021 Let’s face it – it’s been easy for a while to dismiss our junior senator, Rand Paul, as a contrarian crank. He has regularly been at cross-purposes
MoreNotes from Bruce Good morning! This is our second Subscribers and Members newsletter, and this perk is only available to all of you, so thanks for signing up! Our number of subscribers and members
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VIEW ONLINE → Click here for subscriber information: Notes from Bruce This Week’s Stories This week’s most-read story The four groups pushing the sham CRT controversy – and why A graduate-level academic
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By Bruce Maples VIEW ONLINE → A graduate-level academic framework that virtually no one had heard of a year ago has now become a reason for new fights, new laws, and near-riots
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By Bruce Maples VIEW ONLINE → I don’t belong to an organized political party – I’m a Democrat. – Will Rogers While we chuckle at this comment, we also ruefully admit that
MoreNotes from Bruce Hello! A few updates: I’ve added the Most Read and Most Shared symbols to the list of stories, so you can see what other readers thought were stories worth
MoreNotes from Bruce Hello! A few updates from ForwardKY headquarters (otherwise known as my den): My wife and I have been exceptionally busy the past few months getting the house ready to
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