The news was as bad as everyone had feared. Beechwood’s Mitchell Berger has a torn ACL and meniscus, suffered in Friday’s Lloyd game, and will undergo surgery in the next couple of weeks. And it’s not just his Beechwood teammates and coaches shedding tears for the end of his high school career. Just plain fans […]
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Op-Ed: School choice and legacies
The following op-ed is written by Jim Waters, president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, which describes itself as Kentucky’s free-market think tank. By choosing to go on the road for Wednesday’s oral arguments appealing a Franklin Circuit Court ruling striking down modest school choice legislation passed in 2021, the state’s […]
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Op-Ed: Vote yes on Constitutional Amendment 2
The following op-ed is written by the Yes for Life Alliance Founding Members, Addia Wuchner (Kentucky Right to Life), Angela Minter (Sisters for Life), Todd Gray (Kentucky Baptist Convention), Jason Hall (Catholic Conference of Kentucky), David Walls (the Family Foundation) and Richard Nelson (Commonwealth Policy Center) On a bright Saturday afternoon on the steps of the State […]
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Op-Ed: Vote yes on Constitutional Amendment 1
The following op-ed is written by State Senator Givens (R-Greensburg), the Senate President Pro-Tem. Kentucky has one of the most restrictive constitutional limitations on General Assembly meetings of any state in the union. Legislatures in 36 other states can meet without permission from another branch of state government, one of the truest measures of checks and balances. We convene only for a 60-day […]
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Op-Ed: More disasters are coming. Kentucky must be prepared.
The following op-ed is written by Jason Bailey, executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy The last couple of years have marked a chaotic time in Kentucky with our communities rocked by a pandemic, recession, tornadoes and floods. The turmoil that our more vulnerable neighbors face every day is creeping into the lives […]
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Inside LINK: Changes to our Editorial Board
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. At LINK, we have two boards that help us run this organization, abide by our Guiding Principles, and make sure we are meeting our mission. First, we have our managing board. This […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Ludlow with a Hall of Fame hit, cheers for CovCath’s Mayer and Lloyd football
LUDLOW MAKES ITS SPORTS HISTORY COME ALIVE HERE The odds are against them to bring back another Kentucky Class A football championship like that one in 1975 proudly displayed on a big poster inside Ludlow’s Rigney Stadium. The demographics, as they are for all Northern Kentucky river city schools, are against them. But if you […]
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Florence Rotary Club establishes Gateway endowment in memory of John and Connie Salyers
Gateway Community & Technical College recently partnered with the Florence Rotary Club to establish an endowment fund, promoting educational accessibility in Northern Kentucky. The fund is in memory of former Rotary Club President John and his wife, Connie Salyers. The Hand Up Fund will exist to assist eligible Northern Kentucky Gateway student residents with emergency […]
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Inside LINK: We’re giving you your weekly print newspaper back, NKY
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Sometimes, there are announcements I get to make as CEO of LINK that are so exciting, I can’t even bring myself to write a long preamble in this column. Usually, I can […]
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Newspapers: Forget the ‘paper,’ embrace the ‘news’
The following op-ed is written by Ken Paulson, the director of the non-partisan Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University There was a period in the late ‘60s when the Beach Boys, desperate for a hipper identity, reportedly considered shortening their name to “Beach.” Of course, the Backstreet Boys may perform into their 80s, […]