by Richard Nelson | Jul 14, 2017 | Blog
The Ark Encounter celebrated its first anniversary this month but instead of fanfare and praise, some news media and protestors poured rain on its parade. The Biblical theme park, which consists of a life-size replica of Noah's Ark based in Northern Kentucky,...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
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. ...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 12, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 7, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog
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,...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 3, 2017 | Blog
What would Thomas Jefferson say if he were on a TV interview show today? Jefferson is well known as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. According to Monticello.org, Jefferson once told an interviewer, “I saw my job as trying to bring together...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
Public discourse is breaking down today and it needs to be restored. We used to be able to dialogue and debate ideas without getting ugly. We can disagree on ideas. but what we cannot disagree upon is that each person is valuable, that each person has inherent...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog
Have you ever been made to feel like you're the enemy? Well, I recently experienced this firsthand after sharing my concerns with the Shelby County Human Rights Commission over a proposed LGBT ordinance. Another person responded and said that law enforcement was...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
Members of the U.S. Army recently attended "transgender soldiers training," which prepared enlisted men and women to accept soldiers who are transitioning from one gender to another. Women were told that they should be prepared for biological men who...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog
Most of Kentucky's college-bound students are going to be shelling out more for tuition this year. That's because all but two of Kentucky's public universities increased tuition rates. This brings the average cost of a four-year degree in Kentucky to...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 26, 2017 | Blog
U of L basketball coach Rick Pitino was suspended for five games this season as punishment for the scandal involving his basketball recruits. One of Pitino's assistant's hired strippers and prostitutes to lure new recruits to play for U of L. Pitino also...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
Judicial activism happens on both sides aisle. Case in point was a recent ruling by a federal judge who struck down Kentucky's legislative ethics law. It prevented lobbyists from donating to a candidates campaign. In fact, they couldn't even buy them lunch. It...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog
Kentucky is being sued over its ban on medical marijuana. The plaintiffs claim that their privacy rights are being violated and that they should be free of what they say is the "arbitrary power” of the state over their “lives, liberty and...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 21, 2017 | Blog
The New York Public Theater is finding itself in hot water over its modernized version of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." This play opened to the public last week and it depicts Pres. Donald Trump as Caesar. But instead of a Roman robe, he's wearing a...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog
Remember when the U of L Foundation board was reorganized last year? They were accused of operating under a cloud of secrecy, making risky and questionable investments and giving lavish pay to administrators and coaches. Well, a recently released audit reported in the...
