You win some, you lose some
A roundup of results from Election Day 2012
Winner: John Yarmuth
Loser: Ben Chandler
Graduation rates and realities
Does the new accountability system put certain schools at a disadvantage?
When the Kentucky Department of Education recently released much-anticipated test scores, familiar storylines surfaced despite new, tougher academic standards, new accountability tests and a
How’d we do?
After a long, anxious wait, a school discovers much anticipated test scores
At Fern Creek High School, 2:20 unfolds in predictable sequence: bells ring; a chattering surge of 1,300 students dressed in the school’s orange and black press through doors into the parking
Basketball diaries
Hoops domination returns to the region with #1 Indiana, #2 Louisville and #3 Kentucky
There’s something magical about this time of year, and it has nothing to do with the vibrant leaves, crisp autumn air or impending holiday season.
Majority Loser
Mitch McConnell fails to accomplish his No. 1 goal of making Barack Obama a one-term president. Now what?
Nearly three hours after the media declared his re-election campaign victorious, President Barack Obama finished a triumphant speech in Chicago, leaving the rapturous crowd to make a phone call to
A president speaks
Outtakes from Obama’s election night address
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
Annual lecture honors activist Anne Braden
Renowned African-American Studies professor Robin D.G. Kelley first met civil rights pioneer Anne Braden while researching his first book in the late 1980s.
Hoosiers are back, baby
It’s that old NCAA feeling, back home again in Indiana
Julia Meek knows exactly where she was when Christian Watford sank the dramatic three-pointer that lifted Indiana to a 73-72 upset of No. 1 ranked Kentucky last December: She was there!




