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The State Board of Elections announced Thursday that statewide turnout was 32.2% for the primary election, marking the highest turnout in Kentucky history for a Presidential Primary.
Statewide turnout was 32.2% for the primary election, marking the highest turnout in Kentucky history for a Presidential Primary. That increase is in line with rising turnout percentages in general elections that had been seen over the last few years in Kentucky.
The galling gas prices that have dominated national political discourse are now fueling Kentucky's U.S. Senate race, putting both candidates' economic and political IQs to the test. Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who is seeking his fifth term, is hammering the issue on two fronts: on the airwaves with his first commercial against Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford, and during ...
A Princeton native is rising through the agricultural ranks to seek a role in the administration of the national FFA organization. Magen Roberts, a 2006 graduate of Caldwell County High School, is a candidate for national FFA office, the first western Kentucky candidate since the early 1980s.
Blue Gene Mapowther is a mullet-headed patriot from Kentucky who digs professional wrestling, Parliament Lights, his 1988 Chevy S-10 and bands like Disturbed, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and Godsmack (not necessarily in that order).
Kentucky's Governors Scholars received a great civics lesson when each of the three Governor's Scholars Program (GSP) campuses hosted a mock election surrounding Independence Day, with Senator John McCain winning among the students.
PINEVILLE — The Pineville City Council voted on Monday to allow golf cart use on designated roadways within the city. This move comes after Kentucky state law changed to allow local government to make such a decision.
House U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Hopkinsville: (202) 225-3115; (270) 885-8079 U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis, R-Cecilia: (202) 225-3501; (270) 765-4360 Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville: (202) 225-5401; (502) 582-5129
When Kentucky's founding fathers put together this democracy, they gave voters the chance to fire their state legislators every every two or four years. If things weren't going well in state government, the people could install better leaders, or so the theory went. Well, the 2008 General Assembly is coming off a spring of gridlock and acrimony that left the legislature's approval ...
Top Kentucky elected officials are backing away from using tolls to help pay the projected $3 billion cost of replacing the Brent Spence Bridge.
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell used his first television commercial of the summer to link his Democratic opponent, Bruce Lunsford, to high gas prices. McConnell's ad, which is airing statewide and first ran in Lexington during the early morning news shows Friday, criticizes Lunsford for pushing for a provision 28 years ago that automatically raises Kentucky's gas tax each year if the ...
