Written by NKU biological science student Hailey Ausbrooks When you think of plastics, what comes to mind? Is it trash bags, your Amazon packaging, or the toothpaste you just washed down the sink? Microplastics can be found nearly everywhere, ranging from tires, road markings, bottled water, and groundwater (Cai et al. 2025). Microplastics are plastic […]
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Opinion: Congress must act for Kentucky seniors, avert looming long-term care crisis
Written by Adam Mather, President of KCARE, the association representing skilled nursing facilities and personal care homes across the Commonwealth Kentucky takes great pride in caring for our seniors and aging adults. Every day, across the commonwealth, thousands of dedicated healthcare professionals deliver high-quality, compassionate care to our loved ones at nearly 300 nursing homes, […]
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Opinion: The filibuster is not the problem. It’s the point.
Written by Dustin Isaacs, Deputy Communications Director for the GOP Senate President’s Office Congress remains locked in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. While headlines understandably focus on safety-net and healthcare talks, a broader institutional danger looms: elimination of the Senate filibuster.The filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance most legislation, is no gimmick. […]
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Inside LINK: Next year’s election has officially begun
Hang on, you may be asking. It’s 2025. How has the 2026 election already started? Nov. 5 is the first day Kentucky allows those seeking office to register with the Secretary of State for the Primary Election in May, one of two steps required to officially become a candidate. The other step is to register […]
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Inside LINK: The end of our threenager era
When my daughter, Catherine, was two, I was a pretty smug parent. I’d heard so much about the “terrible twos,” and my kid was honestly pretty great at that age. Easygoing, funny, loving – I figured I was the best parent on the planet, and I had it all figured out. No one told me […]
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Opinion: Bringing our peace officers back to the community
Written by Tom Hull Every one of us in Covington, KY has seen it. We saw it in video of an officer punching a man over an over in the head on a bridge during a protest that, while not legal, was peaceful and did not warrant such a violent response. In video of that […]
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Opinion: Affordable electricity is the ultimate platform
Written by Andrew McNeill President and Senior Policy Fellow at the Kentucky Forum for Rights To preserve the legacies of some of the most consequential Americans to ever live, the industrialist Henry Ford collected and reassembled a number of buildings and structures at a place called Greenfield Village. Part of the Henry Ford Museum, the […]
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Opinion: Kentucky needs every tool in the toolbox to beat colon cancer
Written by Amanda Smart, Executive Director of the Colon Cancer Prevention Project Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis that comes too late and with too few effective treatment options. But at the Colon Cancer Prevention Project, we know […]
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Letter to the Editor: How The cost of government can exceed the price
Written by Fort Thomas resident Steff Chalk At the conclusion of the City of Fort Thomas audit for fiscal year ending 2024, the citizens of Fort Thomas received confirmation that the city’s published finances lacked accuracy. The audit summarized 8 findings that included: failure to comply with a Kentucky Revised Statute, process deficiencies, math errors, […]
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Opinion: Reform Medicaid and American medicine
Written by Mark Schroer, MD Someone told me the other day that as a physician I was a “stakeholder” who had “skin in the game” when it came to healthcare. I soon figured out we were not discussing my affinity for red meat or his opinion that I needed plastic surgery. No, we were discussing […]
