Kentucky should make voting easier, not more restrictive

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, in 2025, 16 states passed 31 restric­tive vot­ing laws at the same time that 25 states passed expan­sive vot­ing laws.  Oddly, some of the states pass­ing restric­tive laws also passed some of the expan­sive ones.  Montana was the worst state in enact­ing restric­tive laws with five sep­a­rate pieces of leg­is­la­tion; Ohio a close second... 
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Rory Houlihan
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Houlihan wants to protect reproductive rights

One state leg­isla­tive can­di­date isn’t wait­ing until he takes office to draft a con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment. Rory Houlihan, who is run­ning again for state rep­re­sen­ta­tive, already has one writ­ten and ready to intro­duce if he is elect­ed. It’s the same one he has pro­mot­ed in pre­vi­ous races and tried to get oth­er law­mak­ers to pro­pose. The amend­ment would bar any infringe­ment of a woman’s right to choose whether or not to con­ceive or give birth, and if she does... 
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The Seven Sisters

On the night of February 23, 2026, a small clus­ter of shim­mer­ing blue stars called the Pleiades will appear very close to the moon, cre­at­ing an occul­ta­tion-like pas­sage where the Moon sweeps past these glit­ter­ing stars as Earth rotates.  The Pleiades are some­times called the Seven Sisters. Long ago, when the sky was still being arranged and the con­stel­la­tions had not yet agreed upon their places, there were sev­en sis­ters born to Atlas and Pleione: Maia,... 
Some of the signs that were brought to the vigil on January 31.
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GRC Students Hold Public Protest

In the past year, we have seen a num­ber of peace­ful protests by younger folks in our com­mu­ni­ties, and GRC youth are no excep­tion. A group of ten GRC stu­dents took a moment of protest and reflec­tion in front of the cour­t­house in Winchester on the sun­ny after­noon of Monday, February 16, mark­ing what they hope will be the first of many mind­ful inter­ac­tions with their First Amendment rights and their per­spec­tives on cur­rent events. 

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Listening beneath the surface

Some peo­ple are born lis­ten­ing below the noise. We notice the shift before the storm breaks. We feel what’s com­ing before any­one names it. Emotion moves through us like weather—settling in the chest, chang­ing the light of a room, ask­ing to be acknowl­edged. This is not excess. It is attune­ment. My Great Gran was like that. 
A close-up view of the redesigned intersection of Bypass Rd and Boonesboro Rd, showing the free flowing two-lane connection between the two busy roads.

Roundabouts added to bypass extension plan

When the exten­sion of Veterans Memorial Parkway (also known as the east­ern bypass) is com­plet­ed, it will include three round­abouts and a realign­ment of Boonesboro Rd with the exist­ing Bypass Road (west­ern bypass) to facil­i­tate traf­fic between I‑64 and Boonesboro. Both of these design ele­ments rep­re­sent changes to the orig­i­nal plan and are designed to facil­i­tate traf­fic flow. 

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