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What Happens Now?
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.
Jun 27
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What Happens Now?
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What's A "Good" School?
Manual, Brown, Atherton, Male, Eastern, Ballard, Butler, Jeffersontown, Fern Creek, PRP, Shawnee, Central, Fairdale, Moore, Seneca, Southern, Waggener…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Jun 21
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What's A "Good" School?
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What's Changing About Louisville's Schools--And What Isn't
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…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Jun 2
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What's Changing About Louisville's Schools--And What Isn't
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An Early Look at the 2022 General Elections in Louisville and Kentucky
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…
Perry Bacon Jr.
May 27
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The Best City in America To Raise Your Children In
I’ve recently become familiar with the work of Anat Shenker-Osorio, a California-based left-leaning political strategist who has worked on successful…
Perry Bacon Jr.
May 22
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The Best City in America To Raise Your Children In
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37 Percent
In the Democratic primary for the Louisville-area congressional seat, a white candidate ran against a black candidate, with the black candidate…
Perry Bacon Jr.
May 21
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37 Percent
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The Kentucky Democratic Primaries of 2022 and the GOP Primary of 2023
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…
Perry Bacon Jr.
May 9
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The Kentucky Democratic Primaries of 2022 and the GOP Primary of 2023
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"An Act of White Supremacy"
Louisville resident and historian Emily Bingham has a new book out called “My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic…
Perry Bacon Jr.
May 6
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"An Act of White Supremacy"
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What The Establishment's Consolidation Around Greenberg and McGarvey Tells Us About Louisville Politics
Louisville’s Democratic political class (campaign donors, former and current officials) mobilized behind Craig Greenberg’s mayoral campaign early last…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Mar 9
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What The Establishment's Consolidation Around Greenberg and McGarvey Tells Us About Louisville Politics
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Lots of Bad Policies Are About To Be Adopted In Kentucky
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…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Mar 8
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The Hankison Verdict and the Local and National Debate on Policing
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…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Mar 4
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The Hankison Verdict and the Local and National Debate on Policing
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“I’m a Democratic Socialist, Like Martin Luther King."
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…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Feb 13
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“I’m a Democratic Socialist, Like Martin Luther King."
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