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In Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race in November, Democratic candidate Marquita Bradshaw, a black woman who supports Medicare for All and the Green Deal…
Perry Bacon Jr.
I tend to assume that elected officials generally know more about electoral politics than I do. After all, many of them have large teams of campaign…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Charles Booker is well-positioned to launch a campaign sometime early next year to try to defeat incumbent Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul in 2022. His…
Perry Bacon Jr.
I have been working in mainstream journalism my entire adult life, a field that prioritizes neutrality, seeing things from both sides, being unbiased…
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I have received a lot of messages from friends/readers asking what I think about what’s happened in Minneapolis, Louisville and across the country over…
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I’m looking for people who want to contribute guest posts to the Bluegrass Beat. The bad news is that I can’t pay you -- at least not yet. I’m looking…
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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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Louisville’s Democratic political class (campaign donors, former and current officials) mobilized behind Craig Greenberg’s mayoral campaign early last…
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In the wake of Gov. Andy Beshear mandating that state workers wear masks indoors, Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles, Treasurer Allison Ball and…
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Trent Garrison attended Kentucky State University, where he studied public administration, and then earned a PHD in geoscience from University of…
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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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This has been one of the hardest years of my life and I assume yours as well. But one of the bright spots for me has been trying to grapple with some of…
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