Kentucky should make voting easier, not more restrictive

The year 1889 saw a num­ber of mem­bers with­draw from the First Baptist Church on Highland Street to form a new con­gre­ga­tion, Broadway Baptist Church.  They pur­chased a lot on West Broadway for $1,300.  The Rev. R. T. Huffman went to Nashville and had a Black archi­tect draw up blue­prints for their new brick edi­fice.  The fin­ished church, declared one of the hand­somest in the state, left the con­gre­ga­tion with an indebt­ed­ness of $3,000. 

Chuck Witt pon­ders sev­er­al “odd­i­ties” of mod­ern soci­ety, such as: “Isn’t it odd that an air­port would be built with a wall at the end of the run­way instead of a long sand patch to slow a plane’s land­ing? And isn’t it odd that the same wall could eas­i­ly impede a take­off as well?” 

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... 

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,...