FRANKFORT - As expected, the final full week of the 2010 Regular Session ended with the focus returning to the General Assembly’s top priority, the two-year state government budget. House and Senate leaders began working toward common ground on Wednesday afternoon, ...

Justin Paul Cave is a resident of Glendale in Hardin County and a student at Western Kentucky University where he is Big Brother Coordinator for his fraternity. He is a student in a communications class taught by Jim Turner of The LoJo. T...

Nola Tinsley Willeford is one of the matriarchs of Adairville. She enjoys telling stories from her childhood involving the special family she loves so much. The evening entertainment at our house in the days before electricity...

Cathy Carver is a graduate of Russellville High School who comes from a musical family, including her mom, the late Hazel Carver, and her son John, who has released his own CD. This is her tribute to spring in Russellville, even though she has lived in New ...

Mike Mallory is a 1981 graduate of Olmstead High School. He currently works in television at WPSD in Paducah and calls basketball games for WGKY in Paducah. Mike and Jenny's sons Will (a senior), Alex (a junior), and Matt (a 3rd grader) go to Ballard Memori...

FRANKFORT - In the General Assembly during this time of year, “March Madness” refers to more than just a basketball tournament as the final hectic days of the legislative session draw to a close. The House budget bill - which we passed earlier thi...

Brian is a 1994 graduate of Logan County High School where he played sports. He is an accountant with Logan Telephone Cooperative in his hometown of Auburn. Like many kids who grow up in Kentucky, at least half of ...

FRANKFORT - The oft-times sticky job of late-session policymaking has produced a $17.5 billion House budget plan that would free up billions of dollars for infrastructure and critical needs while erasing a looming $1 billion-plus budget shortfall facing the Commonwealth over...

When it comes to education, few days in recent years could rival last Thursday, when the state learned in the morning that it is a “Race to the Top” finalist and the Kentucky House voted overwhelmingly that afternoon to begin raising the high school drop-out age from 16 to 1...

Martha Jane King represents Logan and Todd counties in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Kentucky legislators focused on protecting and educating children last week as two important bills passed out of the House Judiciary Committee and one cleared the...