Finding Purpose in Life

by | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog

A new study found that finding a purpose in life may decrease the risk of dying early. This is according to JAMA Current Open. Researchers gathered personal data from 7,000 Americans between the ages of 51 and 61 and they found that those without a strong life...

Paducah Considers Religious Freedom Amendment

by | Jun 6, 2019 | Blog

Paducah city commissioners are considering two religious liberty amendments to a controversial ordinance that passed last year.  The original ordinance added gender identity and sexual orientation to its list of civil rights in areas of housing, employment,...

Hubble Telescope Discovery

by | Jun 5, 2019 | Blog

When you look up to the sky on a starry night, ever get the feeling of being small? All those stars and the vastness of the universe tend to humble us. Well, the universe just a little bigger. Astronomers processed 16 years’ worth of photos and data from the...

Target Arms Children With LGBT Apparel

by | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog

We live in a highly charged political climate and for that reason many businesses choose to stay on the sidelines so they don't offend customers. This isn't the case for Target which announced they're marketing products with the rainbow flag in order...

Primaries Settled

by | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog

Turnout in the primary election was higher than expected. Yet, even so, only two out of 10 registered voters went to the polls to elect candidates for constitutional offices. Winners on the Republican side include: Gov. Matt Bevin, Daniel Cameron for Attorney General,...

Miracle Discovery

by | May 31, 2019 | Blog

Do you believe in miracles? Magoffin County residents in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky do. A two-year old boy went missing from his parents home on Mother's Day when neighbors and the county rescue team began searching for him. It didn't seem likely that...

Doxxing Citizens

by | May 23, 2019 | Blog

The state of civil discourse is breaking down in our nation. It gets even worse when elected officials harass citizens for exercising their First Amendment freedoms. This is what happened outside a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood where 1000 citizens prayed outside....

Gay Marriage Infiltrates Kids Cartoons

by | May 22, 2019 | Blog

Is it appropriate to expose toddlers and young children to same-sex weddings? PBS thinks so. They featured a homosexual "wedding" on a popular cartoon for children. The cartoon “Arthur,” is the longest-running animated series for children in the...

Election Day

by | May 21, 2019 | Blog

It's election day in Kentucky today! And if you're like most people you may be learning this for the first time. It's been a quiet election season as there are only a few offices on the ballot. Kentucky is one of a handful of states that elects its...

The Gift of Free Elections

by | May 20, 2019 | Blog

Tomorrow, Kentucky voters will go to the polls to determine their party's nominee for governor and five other constitutional offices. But the turnout is expected to be low.  Voting may be an inconvenience at times but being inconvenienced is a small price to...

Fighting the Opioid Crisis

by | May 17, 2019 | Blog

Four Kentuckians die every day from an opioid overdose which puts us in the middle of a crisis and the federal government is stepping in. The University of Kentucky received an $87 million federal grant to combat the crisis and measure the impact...

Primary Election is on Tuesday

by | May 16, 2019 | Opinion Pieces

Kentucky’s primary election is this Tuesday and if voter participation in 2015 is any indication, the turnout will be in the neighborhood of a dismal 12 percent. Low turnout is partly because Kentucky is one of a handful of states that elects its governor and...

UK Tuition Increase

by | May 16, 2019 | Blog

The University of Kentucky is raising in-state undergraduate students by 2.4 percent this fall. This brings the annual cost of tuition to $12,360. Out-of-state tuition will increase 6.2% to $30,680. It's also raising room and board by an additional three percent....