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EDITORIAL
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Voters are feeling bruised and conflicted as a long, grueling battle for the Democratic presidential nomination comes down to the wire.
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The careful language of management consultants can be hard to translate. So it is refreshing, although alarming, that the consultants who produced a mammoth review of Lexington's city government were crystal clear on one topic.
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We suspect that it’s merely a happy coincidence that International Migratory Bird Day served as the opening bookend for Historic Preservation Week.
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President Michael McCall always makes a passionate case for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. During the legislative session, McCall threatened to padlock 14 new community college buildings if the budget didn't provide money to operate and maintain them. He got the money.
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Everyone wanted to believe in the miracle-working principal. Visiting dignitaries and aspiring politicians flocked to the scene of Principal Peggy Petrilli's successes at Lexington's Northern Elementary School and later at the Booker T. Washington Academy.
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Even in retrospect, it's often hard to define the moment when things began to spin out of control. It's even harder in real time. But the last several days of news about big-time basketball recruiting create an uneasy feeling.
Seven Democrats are seeking the opportunity to run against Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell this fall, but just two of the candidates have a legitimate shot at winning their party's nomination in the May 20 primary.
The race to represent House District 72 is pitting a relative newcomer against two veteran officeholders. Sannie Overly, the Paris lawyer who won the seat vacated after Carolyn Belcher was elected Bath County judge-executive, is running to serve a full term.
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System and its president, Michael McCall, could do good things with the money from a 13 percent tuition increase.
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There is no reason to replace Councilwoman Peggy Henson, whom Mayor Jim Newberry chose in January to replace Richard Moloney, who took a state appointment.
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It's a sad thing to say about university leaders, but it seems they never learn. University of Kentucky administrators have spent more than a year planning steel utility poles, some of them truly huge, along Woodland and Euclid avenues and Cooper Drive.
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Cheryl Blanton Feigel is the strongest candidate in the District 5 council race. She brings a considerable record of public service and deep civic connections in Fayette County.
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Of the five candidates competing to succeed Dick DeCamp, two stand out as especially well prepared to represent a district that's home to downtown, the University of Kentucky and the neighborhoods in between.
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The Herald-Leader believes the tradition of candidate endorsements enhances interest and participation in the civic process -- whether readers agree with the paper's choices or not.
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Riding horses at high speed is a dangerous business. Add obstacles into the mix and it’s all the more treacherous.
Every month when you pay your electric, gas and phone bills -- and in Lexington, your water bill -- part of the money goes to the state agency that polices the utilties that provide those services.
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Probably no one who voted for Senate Bill 38 two years ago foresaw what happened aound 6 a.m. Tuesday morning at 2700 Chelsea Woods.
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Gov. Steve Beshear won the battle but Brad Cowgill walked away looking like a statesman. Rather than trigger an unproductive fight with the governor, Cowgill surrendered a job that he wanted, even though he had powerful allies, including Senate President David Williams, who would have helped him try to hold on.
