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What Do We Do Now To Protect the Right to An Abortion? The decision by the Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade was…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Manual, Brown, Atherton, Male, Eastern, Ballard, Butler, Jeffersontown, Fern Creek, PRP, Shawnee, Central, Fairdale, Moore, Seneca, Southern, Waggener…
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I remember, in my early days at college 20 years ago, how often I had to explain and then re-explain my previous schooling. (I went to a college in the…
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We aren’t likely to have many polls about the November elections in Louisville and Kentucky. But we actually have a lot of data about these races…
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I’ve recently become familiar with the work of Anat Shenker-Osorio, a California-based left-leaning political strategist who has worked on successful…
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In the Democratic primary for the Louisville-area congressional seat, a white candidate ran against a black candidate, with the black candidate…
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We have primaries coming up in Kentucky on May 17. (Early voting is May 12-14.) Here are some thoughts on the upcoming races, from the perspective of a…
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Louisville resident and historian Emily Bingham has a new book out called “My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic…
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Louisville’s Democratic political class (campaign donors, former and current officials) mobilized behind Craig Greenberg’s mayoral campaign early last…
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Charter schools in Louisville and Lexington but not really in the rest of the state. More freedom for neighborhoods in the Louisville area to separate…
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On Feb. 2, police in Minneapolis, whose killing of George Floyd set off protests across the world, killed 22-year-old Amir Locke. They were executing a…
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Robert LeVertis Bell is a public school teacher here in Louisville (8th grade English) who is running for a seat in the Kentucky House of…
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