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“What “Full Faith and Credit” Really Means” There is a question I have been turning over in my mind for a while now, and it sits quietly underneath a lot of the news we see but rarely gets said out loud. People ask what…
Read story →“The Steward’s Works Program” Eastern Kentucky does not suffer from a lack of problems that need solved. You can see them almost everywhere you drive. A culvert clogged for years. A drainage ditch overtaken by brush. …
Read story →When people talk about housing today, the conversation usually begins in the wrong place. We argue about prices. We argue about interest rates. We argue about whether young families simply need to work harder or whether…
Read story →Every day, a postal truck turns down a gravel road somewhere in America. Sometimes it is a paved street in a city neighborhood. Sometimes it is a winding road through farmland. And sometimes it is a narrow stretch of dir…
Read story →I have sat in enough county meetings to recognize the sound. It isn’t yelling at first. It’s the shuffle of papers. The low murmur before someone stands up. A man clears his throat. A woman grips a folded copy of someth…
Read story →It takes a special kind of nerve for a government-backed monopoly to look at an ice-covered state and tell families to “conserve” heat. While roads freeze, pipes burst, and homes struggle to stay warm, the institutions …
Read story →“Salyersville’s Health Can’t Wait: A Path From Crisis to Recovery Salyersville and Magoffin County are not beyond repair, but public health cannot wait. In a small community, failing utilities are not an abstract polic…
Read story →“Kentucky Power Company Customers Can’t Get a Break on Rate Increases Kentucky Power Company customers can’t seem to get a break. With base rate increases about every two years, and smaller hits in between, residential …
Read story →Both this administration and the one before tried the same tactic. They tried to explain the economy into feeling better. They held press conferences and posted charts, insisting that Americans simply did not understand …
Read story →I saw a post the other day about France taxing wealth that sits still. People were shouting about it online the way they always do. One side calling it theft. The other calling it fairness. But no one was talking about t…
Read story →When the state broke ground on the Chestnut Ridge community in Knott County, most people saw it as another government project. Seventy-four rental homes, fourteen million dollars, a new beginning for families who had los…
Read story →There is a new kind of fear taking shape in America. It is quiet, unspoken, and hard to name. It is not the fear of losing a job, or even of falling behind. It is the fear of no longer mattering, of being economically un…
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