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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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TheWEEKLY WRAPAll the content from Forward Kentucky for the week ending 1/9 — Callouts —Things on the site we want to be sure you see,out of everything published this week. Poll shows strong
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Good morning! Today’s Forward Five could be called the “Rule-Breaking Edition.” Here’s why. For some time, I have tried to adhere to the rule
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Wow. There have been days in my life where the events have been so large and so overwhelming that it seems impossible to wrap
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Good morning! There are moments in time that are like the fork in the road in the Frost poem, or like Caesar crossing
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Good morning! You can tell we are back into the political maelstrom, simply by looking at the number and variety of new stories
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Good morning! Here’s hoping we all got LOTS of rest over the holidays – because the new year has just started, and already
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Good afternoon, and Happy New Year! Normally, this would be the time for fireworks, and parties, and parades, and ball games, and celebratory kisses
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Good morning! We’ve got a four-day weekend in front of us, and for us political junkies, we’re going to need it. Why? Because the
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Good morning! I hope you had just the holiday season you needed. Ours was wonderfully normal, which in 2020 is a real blessing. After
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By Marshall Ward For years now, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Trumplicans have been displaying a “Bah! Humbug!” type of life. That expression was used by Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’ 1843 novella,
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