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Hoptown Chronicle

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A Western Kentucky agency is wielding eminent domain for a gas pipeline. Landowners say they’re being bullied.

Greg Davenport says he’s not opposed to progress. But he has serious misgivings when it comes to a proposed 16-inch natural gas pipeline that a public agency wants to run through his family’s Christian County farm, property his family has owned since the 1940s. “Basically, they said, ‘Sign...

Christian County, KY · 6d

Kentucky Lantern

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Commentary: Editor’s Notebook: In a blue wave, one nonpartisan electoral victory that’s very good for democracy

The blue wave that swept America made Tuesday a very good night for university presidents and law firms and Haitian refugees and immigrants, and all the other people who have suffered the worst excesses of a vengeful President Donald Trump and his feckless administration.  That wave didn’t sweep Kentucky so much as splash it around […]

Lexington, KY · 5d

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Southern Kentucky Gets New 92.1 FM Signal as Christmas Music Arrives

92.1 FM – WWZG, licensed to Park City, Kentucky, is now broadcasting the same programming heard on 106.7 FM and 103.7 HD-3. The Zing! format features a bright Adult Contemporary format, playing upbeat, feel good hits from today’s popular artists and favorites from recent decades. The new signal...

Kentucky · 4d
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Kentucky Gov. Beshear: This midterm election was ‘a referendum on decency’

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) joins Peter Alexander to explain what he believes Democrats need to do to keep up the momentum they have gained in historically red states for 2028 and discuss what his party needs to do when they take control of Congress in January.

Kentucky · 4d

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Meet NKY’s newly elected school board members

Incumbents largely held their ground, joined by a few newcomers in Northern Kentucky’s four competitive school board races on the Nov. 3 ballot, according to election results from the Kentucky Secretary of State. Five new representatives also joined boards of education at Beechwood, Dayton and Erlanger-Elsmere independent school districts...

Boone County, KY · 5d

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General election turnout sees increase in early voting

The number of early voters in Northern Kentucky increased this year. All three clerks spoke with LINK nky Wednesday morning following the election. “Numbers were pretty high for early voting as compared to ’22, which were only like 10,000,” said Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe. “So, we had 7,000 more people vote prior to the election.”

Boone County, KY · 4d

FOX 56

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Democrats gain ground in Kentucky. What happens next?

Kentucky · 4d

decorhint.com

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Daniel Boone Founded This Kentucky Settlement Over 250 Years Ago, And You Can Still Explore It Today

A blacksmith, a candle maker, and a weaver all go to work inside the same wooden fort every week. They wear 18th-century clothes, and they’re happy to show you exactly how they do it. The fort around them is a full-scale replica of a frontier outpost that held strong...

Kentucky · 6d

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This Kentucky Covered Bridge Has Stood Since Before The Civil War And Your Family Still Walks Right Through It

Graffiti covers nearly every inch inside a wooden bridge that first spanned a Kentucky creek around 1855. Cars stopped crossing it decades ago. Feet are the only traffic now, and that includes yours. The whole thing is open 24 hours a day, every single day of the week. There’s no...

Kentucky · 6d

WYMT

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Incumbent Hal Rogers wins Kentucky’s 5th congressional seat

Kentucky · 4d

LEX18 News

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Kentuckians vote to pass Amendment 1, limiting governor's pardon power

Kentuckians have voted to pass Amendment 1, which will now limit the governor's pardoning power in the days weeks after they are swore in.

Kentucky · 5d

Kentucky Lantern

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Commentary: Bull Nelson would have checked three of Hegseth’s four boxes

Holy Warrior Pete Hegseth has declared holy war on “fatties, trannies, beardos” and “weirdos” in the military. History, which I taught in a community college for two dozen years, instructs that in combat, corpulence and competence are not mutually exclusive. From William the Conqueror to Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf, more than a few famous battle captains […]

Kentucky · 6d

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Gov. Beshear shares Medical Debt Relief Program update

After launching the Team Kentucky Medical Debt Relief Program in September, Governor Andy Beshear announced that more progress has been made toward relieving $250 million in medical debt. The program was developed by an executive order signed by Beshear on September 15. As of Thursday’s Team Kentucky Update, he says...

Kentucky · 6d

Hoptown Chronicle

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‘Blue wave’ extends to Frankfort, as Kentucky Democrats make gains in legislature

Despite massive fundraising disadvantages, Democratic candidates for the Kentucky legislature flipped nine seats from Republicans incumbents in the election Tuesday, while only losing one seat. Democrats made the largest inroads in suburban Louisville districts where they had lost ground in recent years, knocking off seven GOP incumbents with at least...

Kentucky · 5d

WBKO

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Voter integrity in the state of Kentucky explained

Voter integrity in the state of Kentucky explained.

Kentucky · 5d

wkms.org

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GOP hangs on in western Kentucky despite 'blue wave' eating into Republicans' state supermajority

Voters across Kentucky weighed in on candidates for local government leaders and for lawmakers that will represent them in Frankfort – and Washington, D.C. – on Tuesday. Nationwide, Democrats made big national gains, claiming majorities in both chambers of Congress. The same “blue wave” was felt in Kentucky, with Democrats flipping nine seats from Republicans incumbents, while only losing one.

Kentucky · 5d

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The election's end is just the beginning

With this year’s general election behind us, there are winners and losers. There are those who backed winning candidates and those who are hurting from the knowledge that their candidate just couldn’t cross the finish line as a winner. And, as passionate as Eastern Kentucky residents are about...

Kentucky · 5d

Northern Kentucky Tribune

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OneNKY, Horizon Foundation Summit sets stage for Northern Kentucky’s future through 2030

OneNKY Alliance and Horizon Community Foundation of Northern Kentucky brought regional leaders, community stakeholders, and emerging voices together October 28 for the ninth annual OneNKY Summit, themed “OneNKY United 2030: Driving Our Community Vision.”

Kentucky · 5d

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Several Kentucky races uncontested on Tuesday’s ballot

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentuckians looking through their ballots Tuesday may find races with only one candidate. In Fayette County, the judge-executive, county clerk, county attorney and sheriff races are all uncontested. The same can be seen in Madison County. Voter attention on national politics. Dr. Stephen Voss, an elections...

Fayette County, KY · 6d

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Early voter turnout sets records in some local counties

Early voting numbers are in, and are higher compared to past midterms. Hamilton, Butler, Warren and Clermont counties in Southwest Ohio all saw more people voting early in-person compared to four years ago. Boone County in Kentucky saw record-breaking numbers that are comparable to a presidential election. Northern Kentucky. In...

Boone County, KY · 7d