Opinion

Snobbery in politics

With American voters pondering the choice between a blueblood businessman and a self-described... More

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Slow road to history

The River View Trail, dedicated over the weekend at the Ward Oates Amphitheatre in North... More

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Low cost, high quality

There is an upside to Kentucky’s budget crunch: It forces everyone from legislators to agency... More

  • Jim Waters
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A second chance

Give Mike Templeman credit for trying to resuscitate a downtown venture that flopped under city... More

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Your letters

The State Journal encourages readers to submit letters to the editor for publication by noon... More

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To reform or not...

Kentucky lawmakers have mostly resisted the impulse to raise taxes in the past five years of... More

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Did Mitt muff it?

Mitt Romney probably never thought he’d have to defend remarks he made privately to a group of... More

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The shelter squeeze

Franklin County’s unemployment rate stood at 6.6 percent in July, down about three points from... More

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Teaching the test

Standardized testing hasn’t always been as pivotal to public education as it is today. Jim... More

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Bourbon's comeback

Buffalo Trace Distillery, whose corporate predecessors unloaded three whiskey warehouses for... More

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911 for public pensions

I told the Kentucky Public Pensions Task Force recently that its “patient” is not only very ill,... More

  • Jim Waters
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Your letters

The State Journal encourages readers to submit letters to the editor for publication by noon... More

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Gambling on climate

Glaciologist Keith Mountain suggested in an interview with The State Journal’s Lindsey Erdody... More

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That elusive likability

One of the great fallacies of politics – and life – is that one must be liked to be effective.... More

  • Kathleen Parker
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Make river an asset

It’s good news that developers are getting interested in what they can do with the old Frankfort... More

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Big Mac goes veggie

Chicago Sun-Times on a veggie-only McDonalds: McDonald’s is opening two vegetarian-only... More

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Pretentious poverty

When I was 19, I lived in a furnished room on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. My kitchen table was... More

  • Richard Cohen
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Teachers' crossroads

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who as President Obama’s chief of staff believed no crisis should go... More

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Sept. 11 + 11 years

Sept. 11 fell on a Tuesday in 2001, as it does today, the 11th anniversary of the terror attacks ... More

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The home stretch

After two political conventions with no big surprises, the nation has two months to decide... More

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