Audio – KET to Cut Staff

Every first Saturday in August, the little community of Fancy Farm reminds the rest of Kentucky of something we sometimes forget in Frankfort and Washington: politics doesn’t belong only to consultants, cable news panels, or campaign war rooms. It belongs to the people.

On the way to a candidate training event that took me through Mercer County, I couldn’t help but notice the blue and white signs planted along stretches of Highway 127 South with three simple words: NO DATA CENTER.

Last month, New York City shocked the world by nominating three Democratic socialists in the Democratic primary for U.S. Congress. The election has essentially secured the candidates’ general...