Demands by protesters and Breonna Taylor’s family helped expose the rot in Louisville policing
Kentucky’s local governments should rethink public safety for the benefit of citizens and also those officers who want to protect and serve By Vanessa Gallman, Kentucky Lantern The fallout...
Evangelical movement is in danger of being usurped by a hostile Christian nationalism
by Vanessa Gallman, Kentucky LanternMarch 2, 2023 The 16-day outpouring of spiritual fervor at Asbury University in Wilmore was a welcome reminder that religion should be a search for...
How Ket Perkins and the SGA Moved Berea College to Condemn Anti-Gay and Anti-Trans Bills in the Kentucky General Assembly
By Lily Barnette and Ülvi Gitaliyev, Berea Torch Since its founding in 1855, Berea College has been known as an institution on the forefront of the struggle for equality...
Republican lawmakers are taking Kentucky back to education’s bad old days
It’s perplexing until you remember that demagoguery has always thrived on parched, narrow minds By Jamie Lucke, Kentucky Lantern FRANKFORT — Generations of Kentuckians suffered because education was treated...
Always looking over their shoulders – Federal courts are striking down lifesaving protection for survivors of intimate partner violence
BY: ANGELA YANNELLI (Kentucky Lantern) Kentucky can do more to protect some of its most vulnerable people, in particular women who are experiencing domestic violence. Women deserve the right to live...
House Bill 3 would lock up more kids, even though research shows detention’s harms
Detaining kids who make mistakes increases their chances of becoming adults who make mistakes by Ashley Spalding (Kentucky Lantern) All children deserve a chance to succeed, even those who’ve...
Lexington Meta 5: Parking Wars – Is LexPark’s New City Subsidy Equitable?
The big news in Lexington this week is once again parking-related. In the latest twist, the Urban County Council agreed to subsidize LexPark to the tune of $200,000 per...
Lexington Ranked Top Tourist Destination in Kentucky, but at What Cost to Housing?
Lexington, Ky. – Lexington has recently made it to the top of the list in the Tourism Sentiment Index’s 2023 edition of Leading Places: The 100 Most Loved Destinations...
Kentucky’s juvenile justice challenges cannot be solved through incarceration alone
Best options: prevention, rehabilitation and caring for these children as if they were our own by Keturah Herron (Kentucky Lantern) It takes just two words to summarize the deeply...
Do women’s lives matter to federal courts?
by Vanessa Gallman (Kentucky Lantern) Far-reaching legal cases, including a ruling by a Kentucky federal judge, raise serious concerns about whether the lives of women — and their decisions...