A former Democratic nominee for state Treasurer Michael Bowman plans to run again for the Constitutional office next year in an open seat race. Bowman was the 2019 Democratic nominee for Treasurer, who lost to Allison Ball in her re-election. Ball finished the contest with nearly 61 percent of the vote to Bowman’s 39 percent....

A man used to dealing with quarreling elected Republicans will emcee the political speaking at the 142nd Annual Fancy Farm Picnic on the first Saturday in August. House Speaker David Osborne has been tapped to host the Kentucky tradition in far West Kentucky. As multiple statewide-elected Republicans vie for their party’s nomination to challenge incumbent...

Tuesday’s primary elections in Kentucky reflected increasing polarization of the two political parties. The Republican Party kept moving right, with the victories of several candidates who campaigned primarily on cultural issues and against government overreach. The Democratic Party kept moving left, with the U.S. Senate primary victory of former state Rep. Charles Booker of Louisville,...

We’re getting a little more insight into the Republican campaigns for statewide office next year, including Governor and Attorney General and one of the people behind an already announced candidate. In a live television interview with KET’s Renee Shaw on Election Night, Scott Jennings, a close ally of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and CNN commentator,...

As Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Kentucky, continues to gear up for re-election he will do so with some powerful statistics of the state’s performance. The latest numbers Beshear is sharing with the state shows the commonwealth just hit the lowest unemployment rate in state history. According to the Kentucky Center for Statistics, an agency within the...

Tuesday’s primary marked the end of a nearly 50-year career in Frankfort for one Louisville House member, and showed a continued split between the so-called liberty faction of the Republican Party in the northern part of the state. The longest serving member of the Kentucky House of Representatives 91-year old Tom Burch, D-Louisville, lost his...

Surprising no one, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, and Democratic candidate Charles Booker will officially face each other in the race for U.S. Senate. Upon accepting the Democratic nomination, Charles Booker signaled that he is the underdog who will attack Paul around race issues. “His playbook is racism,” Booker said on Tuesday night of Paul. “This...

Craig Greenberg and Morgan McGarvey won with large margins in Tuesday nights Democratic primaries setting up their General Election on Nov. 8. Greenberg won a 8 way Democratic primary garnering 34,115 votes. His next closest competitor was Shameka Parrish Wright who brought in 17,730 votes. Greenberg will look ahead to the November General Election against...

Republican anti-incumbent challengers upset longtime Reps. Sal Santoro, Ed Massey, and Adam Koenig in their re-election primary races. In the 60th House District, Marianne Proctor, a realtor and former speech pathologist, is defeated longtime incumbent Rep. Santoro, of Union. Proctor focused on being a political outsider frustrated with politics and taxation. Proctor finished with 1,955...