The United States government has built-in accountability. We have three branches of government and each provide a system of checks and balances.  Ultimately we the people hold the greatest form of accountability to our government. We do this through...

How do you handle bad news?  More specifically, how do you handle negative news?  According to a recent study at Harvard University in the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, 80% of the stories in the mainstream media were negative. ...

How bad is Kentucky's drug problem? Just ask Boyd County Sheriff Bobby Jack Woods. He says the drug problem in northeastern Kentucky has “reached past an epidemic to biblical plague proportions.”  And woods should know. In just a six day time...

The Kentucky Lottery has a new CEO. His name is Tom Delacenserie, and his goal is to grow the Kentucky Lottery to  $1 billion. This is another way of saying, he wants Kentuckians to lose more money. We should be asking if its good policy for the state to be...

California recently added Kentucky to its travel ban. This is because California considers Kentucky's newly enacted Student Religious Freedom Act "discriminatory legislation" toward the homosexual community. It's ironic that California imposes a...

Did you know that Kentucky ranks as one of the highest states in mistrusting the media?  A recent survey released by Secretary of State Alison Grimes says Kentucky ranks 48th in citizen’s confidence in the media. At the recent Kentucky Bar Association...

Sometimes answers to current problems can be found by looking to the past.  Bias, fake news, and an antagonistic spirit plague the modern American news media...known as the media elite. Journalists would be wise to look to the past for help. Walter Cronkite...

California recently added Kentucky to its list of states off-limits to state workers for nonessential travel. The move is in response to what it considers "discriminatory legislation" toward the LGBT community. At issue is Kentucky's enactment of SB 17,...

The U.S. Constitution pursues “a more perfect union”. On July 5, 1852, former slave Frederick Douglass spoke to an anti-slavery group in Rochester, New York.  “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?  I answer: a day that...

Today is the nation’s birthday. The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in May 1776.  From that meeting, five men were chosen committee to draft a document that would declare the independence of a new nation. John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger...