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While much of the legislation we work on in Frankfort is pretty straight-forward, our commonwealth’s obligation to provide education has stirr…

Mid-March is my target date for planting onions and potatoes. I typically manage a mid-March planting, but the condition of the soil is my pri…

While by all accounts the March weather may have come in like a lamb, it roared into the legislature like a lion. Lawmakers continued crafting…

My orders for onion sets and seed potatoes will arrive next week and will be planted once the soil dries a bit; my favorite summer crops that …

The Kentucky General Assembly has wrapped up the eleventh legislative week of the 2024 Regular Session. The Senate’s budget proposal was outli…

Absolutely nothing says spring more than the distant chorus of spring peepers. There is a wooded stream just off Conner Station that is home t…

The Kentucky General Assembly reconvened in Frankfort on Tuesday after observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to start the third week of the 20…

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In April, I published a column expressing the importance of practicing safety on our roadways, and that message is always worth repeating. The…

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A friend will do his best to prevent you from driving off a cliff. Your enemy will give you directions to the cliff and happily watch you plun…

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The Kentucky General Assembly is three weeks into the 2023 Interim Period meetings, and there are many items to update you on. As a reminder, …

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Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, has named Senate Transportation Chair Jimmy Higdon, R-Lebanon, to the newly formed Multimodal F…

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Warmer weather is a welcome sight here in the bluegrass as Kentucky Derby season is upon us, and summer is right around the corner.

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You have to work with what you have. You have to play the hand you have been dealt. You have to make the best of your circumstances. Complaini…