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What To Give The Kentucky Pol Who Has Everything? Al Cross Has Some Jolly Ol’ Ideas.

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December 23, 2022 | Al Cross
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As Primary Voters Move Kentucky’s GOP Farther Right, Will Others Follow?

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Income Tax Cut
Opinion

The Kentucky Legislature Does A Lot Of Big Things Without Scrutiny

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Opinion

Mischievous Christmas gifts for Kentucky politicians

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News

Gov. Beshear needs help making preventive pandemic messages stick in Kentucky

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Opinion, Web Only

McConnell has the switch to turn off The Trump Show, but will he use it?

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Opinion

Voters whip Kentucky Democrats with a Trump lash

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News

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Opinion

The Trump card is all McGrath has left

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Al Cross

Al Cross (Twitter @ruralj) is a professor in the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media and director of its Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. His opinions are his own, not UK’s. He was the longest-serving political writer for the Louisville Courier Journal (1989-2004) and national president of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2001-02. He joined the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2010.

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