For the past dozen years I’ve written your stories. Now, I’m taking some time to write my own. Over the coming weeks, I’m packing up and heading westward to my new home, Los Angeles. Living in L.A. is something I have wanted to do for years. Decades even, maybe. But I always found a reason […]
Author Archives: Michael Monks
Michael Monks was one of the founding members of LINK nky.
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LINK nky Team of the Week nominations now open for Nov. 21 – 27
It is time to nominate Northern Kentucky’s next LINK nky Team of the Week. As a reminder, our honor is available to any athletics team from any sport at any level – from high school and collegiate to youth to recreational and beyond. If you saw a standout performance from a team from Monday, Nov. […]
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Vote for the LINK nky Team of the Week – Nov. 14 – 20
The nominations are in for the next LINK nky Team of the Week competition. To be the winning team, fan votes play a heavy role, along with consideration from our sports team here at LINK. Nominations are reader-submitted or recommended by our sports team. Our Team of the Week program honors all local sports at all levels, whether it’s […]
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The Kentucky Side: Books exploring NKY’s ‘curious’ history and popular, lesser-known landmarks
In this edition of The Kentucky Side, we talk with the authors of two new books. Greg Hand’s Cincinnati Curiosities: Healing Powers of the Wamsley Madstone, Nocturnal Exploits of Old Man Dead, Mazeppa’s Naked Ride & More explores some of our strange historic moments in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. For example, did you know that […]
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Vote for the LINK nky Team of the Week – Nov. 7 – 13
The nominations are in for the next LINK nky Team of the Week competition. To be the winning team, fan votes play a heavy role, along with consideration from our sports team here at LINK. Nominations are reader-submitted or recommended by our sports team. Our Team of the Week program honors all local sports at all levels, whether it’s […]
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Football playoffs: Only three NKY teams survive second round
The second round of the Kentucky high school football playoffs brought the end of the season for seven Northern Kentucky teams. Three managed to march on to the third round, the quarterfinals, next Friday. The night claimed some of the region’s top teams, including Highlands and Covington Catholic, as well as Bishop Brossart and Simon […]
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The Kentucky Side: Discussing Election Day in NKY
Correction: In an earlier version of this podcast, I misidentified the Democrat running in House District 68. The candidate is Kelly Jones, but I said that it was Rene Heinrich. Heinrich is the Democratic candidate in the 24th Senate District against Republican Shelley Funke Frommeyer. Kelly Jones is the Democrat running in House District 68 against […]
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NKY football round-up: How our teams did in playoffs’ first-round
The high school football post-season is here and the first round is in the books. As LINK nky sports editor-at-large Dan Weber has written, “When the most suspenseful moment of a football game is whether the split-the-pot winner will show up to claim the prize, you know it’s the first week of the KHSAA playoffs.” […]
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Bromley is small but mayoral candidates dream big
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Nov./Dec. issue of the LINK Reader, our print publication. With a population on the decline for the past three decades, it is not a surprise that the City of Bromley is seeing less civic participation. City council meetings draw less than a handful of people and in […]
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Villa Hills city council candidates answer questions
There are seven candidates running for six seats on the Villa Hills City Council. All six incumbents: Seth Thompson, Jim Cahill, Cathy Stover, Suzanne Wadsworth, Rod Baehner, and Scott Ringo, are running for reelection, and are joined on the ballot by challenger Kyle Walsh. LINK nky submitted questions to the candidates via email and their […]