Daniel Mongiardo

During a visit to Winchester Tuesday, Democratic candidate Jerry Abramson said he thinks he’ll be the most aggressive, active lieutenant governor Kentucky has ever seen. “And my role and my reason to run is to support Steve Beshear, to ensure...

In 1980, David Broder wrote an influential book, “Changing of the Guard,” about the upcoming generation of leaders in Washington. Bringing the concept 30 years later, I asked a number of Kentuckians in the political know: Who do they see...

This year’s governor’s race promises to be a robust one, with five candidates vying for the state’s top office. Following one of the most politically contentious mid-term elections in a generation, the contest will be a referendum on...

 A Kentucky governor’s race is usually a major political event, but judging by the few absentee ballots that have been cast, county and state election officials are expecting turnout to be light in Tuesday’s primary election. One reason is...

A major legislative fight is breaking out over Gov. Rick Scott's surprise proposal to kill Florida's planned computer database to combat pill mills. A longtime opponent of the database, Sen. Joe Negron, R-Hobe Sound, said many Republican lawmakers are...

I guess Gov. Rick Scott includes dope dealing as one of the Florida industries he hopes to stimulate. Scott wants to kill a prescription-drug database that would track the flow of narcotic pain killers coming from "pill mill" clinics. This will help keep...

by Mark Silva First there was Ron Paul, the Republican congressman from Texas who gave his party fits during a presidential campaign in which only the Democrats were supposed to be critical of the Bush administration. Now there is the......

Trey Grayson started it. As soon as the NCAA men's brackets were announced, Kentucky's Republican secretary of State was up with an Internet ad assailing his opponent in the Senate primary -- Rand Paul. Not because he's the son of......