by Richard Nelson | Jan 2, 2016 | Blog
The last few weeks have had GOP candidates wrestling for their position on the podium and in the polls. The current front-runner, Donald Trump, has been the singular candidate the rest of the field has sought to criticize with the hopes of distancing themselves from...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 30, 2015 | Blog
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced earlier this month that they were opening all combat positions to women, including those located at the most dangerous command posts. The move opens up over 200,000 new jobs to women that were previously unavailable. In...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 26, 2015 | Blog
In early September of 2015 The Economist published one of their “Graphic Detail” series. It was a national comparison of several facts about gambling. The article was entitled “Betting the House.” There are four main graphics...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 15, 2015 | Blog
In recent weeks, two communities were shattered and shaken to their core. First in Scottsville where 7-year-old Gabriella "Gabbi" Doolin was kidnapped while attending a Little League football game with her family. Her brutalized body was found...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
Wednesday December 2, became another day in American history that is not tallied in a calendar sent out to place on your desk. It was not a date that people will ask themselves, “where were you on Wednesday, December 2?” It’s not a moment in history...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 5, 2015 | Blog
Wednesday December 2nd became another day in American history that is not tallied in a calendar sent out to place on your desk. It was not a date that people will ask themselves, “where were you on Wednesday, December 2nd?” It’s not a moment in...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
I distinctly remember walking into my professor’s office and gently shutting the door. I had some questions for my teacher about some things he had been saying, some other things that I had been reading, and why a lot of what I was learning from the classroom...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog
With the election season in full swing, presidential candidates are racing across the country to stump their speeches, shake hands, and pontificate on why they should be the next president of the United States. While the Democratic nomination seems like a foregone...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 25, 2015 | Blog
Perhaps the leadership of pro-football are a little naïve, or perhaps the leaders of Sportradar US are a little nefarious, or both. Whatever the case, the data company which is partly owned by the NFL abruptly changed an announcement of a mobile sports...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 20, 2015 | Blog
Political cartoonist Joel Pett’s most recent sketch has caused an uproar in the commonwealth and the nation at large. Depicting Gov.-elect Matt Bevin crouching in fear underneath his desk, another gentleman encourages Mr. Bevin not to fear. The reason for this...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 20, 2015 | Blog
Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin joined 28 other governors who are refusing Syrian refugees until their identity can be confirmed. "My primary responsibility as Governor of Kentucky will be to protect the citizens of the Commonwealth," Bevin said in a...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog
Open your browser, turn on your TV, unlock your phone. It seems everywhere you turn— articles, statuses, and everything in between bring shared outrage or criticism of Starbucks red cups, Star Wars casting decisions, and schadenfreude over a team losing the...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 5, 2015 | Blog
Several states are attempting to expand gambling to shore up state revenue. One of them is Georgia. There has been little serious checking of the downside of gambling expansion: increased crime, divorce, poverty, addiction. As is...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 4, 2015 | Blog
Nobody predicted that Matt Bevin would beat Jack Conway by nine points. Nobody. The Bluegrass poll had Conway up by five points just a few days ago. We learned last year that the Bluegrass poll was wildly off target when it had Grimes and McConnell deadlocked...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 4, 2015 | Blog
Nobody predicted that Matt Bevin would beat Democrat candidate for governor Jack Conway by nine points. Nobody. The Bluegrass Poll had Conway up by five points just days before the election. We learned last year that the same poll was wildly off target when it had...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 31, 2015 | Blog
This election season has been brutal. Millions have been spent by candidates and PACs to criticize and attack the opposition. Many Kentuckians I've talked to over the last couple of weeks are tired of negative campaigning and can't wait for it to be over....
by Richard Nelson | Oct 27, 2015 | Blog
Many of us have read about the road fund mess in Illinois that is beyond the ability of the state to fix. Then came the Great Budget Impasse of 2015 (since July15). The legislature has been deadlocked and is months overdue in passing a...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog
With the 2015 election season nearing the finish line, voter guides of all political stripes have made their rounds, including the Commonwealth Policy Center's. It focuses entirely on social issues and asks candidates’ views on the defense of the unborn,...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog
In the last week the airwaves have been replete with stories and commentaries on the bombshell revelation concerning allegations about The University of Louisville basketball’s less-than-honorable recruiting tactics. The claims center around an assistant coach...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog
Rebecca Traister, writing in New York Magazine, says that when it comes to sex, women are in a permanent position of disadvantage and injustice in our culture. All sex–even consensual sex–is dominated by a "power imbalance" that favors men...
