Senator Rand Paul was allegedly assaulted in his Bowling Green home on Friday afternoon and a man is under arrest. WBKO reports that Kentucky State Police responded to the scene: When they arrived, troopers say they discovered that Rene Boucher, 59, of Bowling Green, intentionally assaulted Sen. Rand Paul causing minor injury. Troopers say Senator […]
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NKY Rep. Thomas Massie 1 of 3 Votes Against Hurricane Aid
The U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved a funding package to aid victims of Hurricane Harvey, which ravaged parts of Texas and Louisiana late last month. Only three representatives voted against it the measure, which passed 419 to 3. One of the three nay votes was Thomas Massie, Northern Kentucky’s Republican Congressman. He released the following statement […]
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NKY Dreamer: Americans Will Support the DREAM Act
Uncertainty. Given the gravity of the issues reported on the front page, it’s a feeling most Americans probably have experienced in the last week or two. We’re worried about our country, and our future. Uncertainty is something I’ve experienced nearly every day of my life. I came to the United States from Mexico when […]
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Rick Robinson: Patton, the Sequel
As I watched the drama at the White House this week, I could not help but envisioning it as a sequel to the role that won George C. Scott an Oscar for Best Actor. Opening scene: cue the opening theme to Patton (1970). General John F. Kelly strides to center of the stage in the […]
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McConnell’s Health Care Bill Leads to Big Protest Outside His Ft. Wright Office
The health care debate raging in Washington, D.C. made its way to Northern Kentucky on Monday as nearly 100 protestors lined the sidewalk outside U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell’s office on Dixie Highway in Ft. Wright. Meanwhile, hours after the Congressional Budget Office estimated that McConnell’s bill would cost 22 million people their insurance, the Senate […]
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McConnell Delivers Tribute to Sen. Bunning on U.S. Senate Floor
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered remarks Monday on the Senate floor honoring the life of former U.S. Senator for Kentucky and American Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Pitcher, Jim Bunning. The Southgate native who pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies, and other teams, and represented Northern Kentucky in the U.S. House of […]
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Hundreds Protest McConnell’s Visit to Downtown Covington
During a short speech Thursday afternoon to the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Senator Mitch McConnell was surprisingly wry, considering that outside Hotel Covington, hundreds of people gathered to protest his visit to the city. “I’m often asked what it is like (to be Majority Leader of the U.S. […]
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Q&A: Covington Young Professional Trains to Lobby for Immigration Reform
Connor Wall, a public relations strategist at Strategic Advisers, LLC, located in Covington, was chosen along with 17 other young professionals to attend a week-long lobbying training program in Washington, D.C. to learn how to lobby for civil rights. This program shed light on the complicated issues associated with immigration reform, why it is such […]
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Rick Robinson: Ted Cruz’s RNC Speech as a Shakespearean Soliloquy
With apologies to Bill Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 2 Delegates, Republicans, Super PAC contributors, lend me your ears; I come to bury Donald Trump, not to praise him. The evil that candidates do lives after them; The good is oft interred in their tweets; So let it be with The Donald. The Donald Hath tweeted […]
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McConnell: New Law Addressing Heroin, Opioid Crisis Heads to President’s Desk
The following is written by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): In my travels across the state, I hear constantly from Kentuckians whose lives have been devastated by the opioid and heroin epidemic that is ravaging our country. The Bluegrass State has been particularly hard hit: 1,248 people died from drug overdoses last year alone, a record […]